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Ocasio-Cortez warns of ‘dangerous authoritarian expansion of power’ in Supreme Court (thehill.com)
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday warned of an “authoritarian expansion of power” by the Supreme Court after it released several controversial opinions in it’s last week of the…

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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (4 children)

we should abolish the constitution and start over. it's an outdated piece of paper that doesn't treat me like a human being.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Interesting hot take. Would you like the current crop of politicians to write that when they have trouble passing regular laws?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Typically you do a good, hearty round of invoking a french mechanism before continuing with anything major like that. Out of an abundance of caution.

    These days, hard to say how you get yourself to a blank slate. The wealthy in this country are richer than any of the nobility our forefathers ever had to contend with.

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