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We already know from Pudding Rob's actions in Florida that these kind of laws are going to be used to:
Allow the executive or legislative branches to override the judiciary, thereby functionally eliminating the separation of powers
Override democracy by removing duly elected officials at the sole discretion of one person (Florida), or by another unelected body (Georgia)
Create a legal fiefdom where the executive or legislative branches can determine the outcome of judicial matters through sheer fiat by removing prosecutors who do not align with their intended outcomes, and then hand selecting those who do
Party of "Law and Order" my fucking ass.....
That's because "law and order" always meant "arrest black people".
That’s completely unfair.
They’re happy to indiscriminately arrest brown people too.
They arrest Brown, murder Black.
Don't forget the poors.
Coincidentally, they also like to make sure black people are poor.
I seriously don't understand the folks who don't get this.
First we had slaves.
Well, they say, US slavery ended with the civil war.
Even IF it were reasonable to say that slavery ended, and therefore the ripples it sent forward in time aren't still being felt, there are two things that are true - One: We didn't root out those who most staunchly refused to relinquish it and enact power structures to encourage equity going forward.
Well, they say, the confederate states were physically and economically destroyed by the end of the war.
And to that I say, "Andrew Johnson."
Two: We as a nation enacted laws and social norms that turned black folks into a permanent underclass, and have been dogwhistling about it for a century.
Well, they say, No we didn't.
Yes, we did. Jim Crow, separate but equal, the origin of most controversial confederate monuments and statues, the very existence of Sundown Towns, and The Negro Motorist's Green Book, the foundation of the State of Oregon, and events such as the Tulsa race massacre, are all factual details about our country.
These inflection points on our nation's psyche persisted at least through the passage of the civil rights act, and some feel Sundown Towns exist even today. These laws and social norms influenced legislative policy, police and justice department culture, and generations of Americans both white and black people.
How one can acknowledge all that and not be impressed at the degree to which African-Americans have succeeded, and also humbled by how they have been wronged, held back, and live to this day in a system founded on excluding them is beyond me. But more importantly than that, to deny that there is still an impact seems willfully ignorant.
Sorry for the rant. I didn't set out to write it, but there it is.
As well as LGBTQ people, and anyone else in the "out group".
Law and order is, and was always, just another tool in their arsenal to be used against their opponents. It has never been about fairness or justice to them.
Now now, it's more general than that. In between shooting black people, they also love to use their laws on other things they don't like, such as other people's abortions (not their own, mind you -- that's different), LGBT people, and immigrants (especially scary turban men).
And that governor is responsible for that law. Kemp fucked us.
They will remove her probably try get her charged and then work to have someone who will make this case go away.
If this happens and the people of Georgia or hell all of us to rise up and put stop to it.
Then might as well hand the country over to the fascist because that would have won.
This must not be allowed. But I knew the GOP would find away to protect Trump.