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DemocracyForever

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3. The Rehnquist 5 started this current mess in 2000
Thu May 21, 2026, 05:05 PM
May 21

when they stopped the legal Florida vote count, left 160,000 votes located in the largest and most heavily democratic voting counties in Florida uncounted and appointed W who then appointed Roberts and Alito, 2 of the 6 current GOP extremists on the SCOTUS.. According to a post 2000 election analysis done by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, most of the uncounted Florida votes were cast by low income African American women. Low income African American women voted overwhelmingly for Al Gore.

It's long past time for Congress to enforce Article 3 Section 2 of the U.S. constitution which gives Congress the authority to regulate the SCOTUS. We need to go past court expansion and term limits and take away any and all cases having to do with elections from the now highly partisan, GOP controlled SCOTUS majority. They've now proven for 25 years that they're there to do the GOP's election stealing dirty work.

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