There is a precedent to ignore SCOTUS

Summary:
Uncle Thomas adrift in his idiotic delusions after Scalia can no longer tell him what do do is revealed in his full horror by Ginni. ~ anon

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Some historical context:

In 1857, the Supreme Court heard a case called Dred Scott v. Sandford, and their ruling stated that black people were not and could not ever be considered citizens of the United States, and that additionally they had no human rights at all.
In the same ruling the Court, dominated by a partisan majority hailing from slave-holding Southern states, also declared that Congress had no right to ban slavery.

So how did the next President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, respond to this?

For one thing, in 1863 President Lincoln and his allies in Congress expanded the judiciary, adding more Supreme Court Justices to try to counteract its partisan state. The exact same thing that many people have been begging the Democrats to do now. But that’s not all.

Lincoln and Congress also just… completely ignored the ruling.

They stopped giving a shit and disregarded everything the Supreme Court had to say on the subject of slavery and started passing laws to ban it anyway, despite this being in direct violation of Dred Scott.

And of course we can’t forget the famous Emancipation Proclamation, perhaps the one thing President Lincoln is most known for, the 1862 Executive Order demanding that all slaves in Southern states be freed immediately.

In the end, the Supreme Court was forced to admit that their power had been broken since nobody was enforcing it. And for decades afterward, the Court was far less powerful than they had been before and than they are today.

The lesson is clear: the era of emancipation and Reconstruction, arguably the greatest period of democratic expansion in the history of the United States, was only able to come about because the President and Congress openly defied and crushed the power of the Supreme Court.

President Joe Biden and the Democrats who hold all three houses of Congress have the ability to do the same today. And while I have no confidence that they will, it remains the right thing to do regardless.

Power must belong to the people, not the judiciary.

Excuse me: two houses of Congress. Some part of my brain got screwy here and conflated the White House as a third chamber. And of course this happens on a thread that’s already started spreading.

Before yet more people try to “school” me with it, I did not forget about the Civil War. I was keeping this thread narrowly-focused because I’m not trying to give an exhaustive history of Abraham Lincoln, just to point out that there’s precedent for ignoring SCOTUS.

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