Unfortunately We Have To Be Optimists

One day – I have no idea when – U.S. Supreme Court opinion days will be celebratory and affirming. They won't make you nauseous and panicky. You might even look forward to them.

The Court one day will make decisions not on its comically evil Major Questions Doctrine, but on reasonable interpretations of the constitution.

One day we will have a Supreme Court with justices that don't make their rulings on the basis that legislating is too difficult for Congress (as Neil Gorsuch said this week). One day we will have a SCOTUS majority that re-establishes the law, which we live without today. That day will come. Save this blog post for later.

This Data Might Make You Hope-Pilled

It’s tough to overstate how thoroughly the courts are beating back the Trump regime

Bad Faith TimesDenny Carter

I say this not because I know precisely when the Court will have the republic-destroying bad faith drained from it via reform and/or expansion, but because I see no point in throwing up my hands and declaring it will never happen, in conceding that those who despise the country had won a final victory (public sentiment, in case you care, doesn't quite align with this fiction they want you to believe).

I wrote this week about the Supreme Court's extremely predictable broadside against transgender athletes in the US, a decision soaked to the gills in the worst possible faith. My buddy and former U.S. Senate candidate Alex Rikleen, meanwhile, wrote about why the Roberts Court's affirming of birthright citizenship was actually a legal nightmare, and why it means the right wing will never stop their attacks on birthright citizenship unless and until they are stopped by those who value a functional multicultural democracy.

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After The Great Redo: Messages From A Glorious American Future

Messages From A Glorious American Future

Independently PublishedDenny Carter

In the meantime, here's why we should follow the example of James Baldwin and adopt essential optimism even when we're faced with a barrage of doom, or what appears – for now – to be doom. I hope you have a good Fourth, and that you don't hesitate to celebrate a nation that has great potential for good, no matter what the haters might say.