This has all been great conversation, and imo there’s nothing wrong with being strategic - I think it’s clear that part of why Mississippi passed its abortion restriction was so it would be challenged, work up to a now-friendly SCOTUS, and get Roe v. Wade nuked once and for all in addition to merely having that one individual state law upheld. Interested parties will figure out how to “game” any system to the extent it can be gamed. Even the very act of refusing to hold hearings on Merrick Garland was gaming the system a bit — fully within the rules but no one REALLY believes McConnell merely thought a lame duck president can’t nominate a justice, he just gamed the system. And good for him, if the other side can’t stop you, keep push until they can.
Oh yeah, I agree. Strategic is absolutely better than just winging it and giving in to every impulse (like you said with the Trans movement today). In fact, a little more strategic thought would probably do people good for fixing some of the situations we are in.
I was just giving another example to back up the other ones listed.
I don't like gaming the system from a judicial scope standpoint. If the issue is not actually an issue, and has to be constructed by activists, then this is just an elaborate way of turning the judiciary into a legislature. TBH, I'm not even sure about the judiciary having the ability to overturn law in general.
This has all been great conversation, and imo there’s nothing wrong with being strategic - I think it’s clear that part of why Mississippi passed its abortion restriction was so it would be challenged, work up to a now-friendly SCOTUS, and get Roe v. Wade nuked once and for all in addition to merely having that one individual state law upheld. Interested parties will figure out how to “game” any system to the extent it can be gamed. Even the very act of refusing to hold hearings on Merrick Garland was gaming the system a bit — fully within the rules but no one REALLY believes McConnell merely thought a lame duck president can’t nominate a justice, he just gamed the system. And good for him, if the other side can’t stop you, keep push until they can.
Oh yeah, I agree. Strategic is absolutely better than just winging it and giving in to every impulse (like you said with the Trans movement today). In fact, a little more strategic thought would probably do people good for fixing some of the situations we are in.
I was just giving another example to back up the other ones listed.
I don't like gaming the system from a judicial scope standpoint. If the issue is not actually an issue, and has to be constructed by activists, then this is just an elaborate way of turning the judiciary into a legislature. TBH, I'm not even sure about the judiciary having the ability to overturn law in general.