The courts were never going to save America from Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : It was only after a more powerful movement gained the sympathy of the federal government, and enlisted Congress and the Executive in the fight against segregation, that Jim Crow began to crumble.
46% : Rather, my point is that, when the judiciary took a firm stand on the most contentious issue facing the nation in 1857, it had no ability to sustain its decision against a powerful political movement that found that decision repugnant.
42% : Or witness nearly the entire history of the First Amendment, which was often powerless, not just against federal suppression of wartime speech, but against something as mundane as people who don’t like nude art.
41% : In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Supreme Court famously held that racially segregated public schools are “inherently unequal,” placing a unanimous Court in opposition to the Southern racial apartheid that characterized that region ever since the 15th Amendment ceased to function.
37% : It’s an extraordinary victory for Trump and a devastating blow to special counsel Jack Smith.
30% : No one is coming to save us from Donald Trump.
30% : President Joe Biden, meanwhile, is an 81-year-old man whose polls suggest that he could lose to Trump.
30% : Or perhaps Trump would be criminally prosecuted, and a conviction would so disqualify the former president, in the eyes of the electorate, that democracy would be saved.
29% : And the Court is particularly ineffective in standing up against figures like Trump, who enjoy broad (if not necessarily majoritarian) political support.
25% : Public domain via Wikipedia So the idea that Donald Trump, and the MAGA movement he leads, would crumble simply because there’s a law saying that his actions are forbidden was always naïve.
23% : Trump literally incited an insurrection that attacked the US Capitol and tried to overthrow the nation’s democratically elected government.
14% : Donald Trump will be defeated, if at all, in November at the ballot box.

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