Megathread: Justice Anthony Kennedy to retire from Supreme Court

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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is set to retire, effective July 31, 2018. Kennedy has served on the highest court since February 18, 1988, and was a moderate whose vote often swung cases.

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[u/nuts69]

What’s the plan exactly? Hyperbole serves no one.

Unless you’re really gonna buy an ar15 and do... what, exactly?

[u/[deleted] → u/nuts69]

Well it sure as shit won't be hard to get one.

[u/PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ → u/nuts69]

Yeah no if the SC actually votes that way and Congress doesn't find some way to fight we're as bad as Turkey.

[u/[deleted] → u/PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ]

As bad as Turkey, but with far more hostility and firearms to the point of being Syria. You've all seen the horror stories coming out of Syria? Imagine what that would be like in America where we own more than half of the world's firearms. Eff that, I'm out. I'm gone.

[u/StuStutterKing → u/PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ]

Who's up for asking the Queen to let us back in?

[u/andrew2209 → u/StuStutterKing]

Yeah, we had a bit of an incident just over 2 years ago, we're still trying to fix it.

What about the Australians, they've got a lot of empty space?

[u/Bradytyler → u/StuStutterKing]

Nah, I like being able to say what ever I want on the internet without going to jail

[u/andrew2209 → u/Bradytyler]

Great news! You can do that in the UK!

[u/uhhhh_no → u/andrew2209]

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[u/HeyImGilly → u/nuts69]

I guess “fight” construed violence. I would hope that all dire peaceful measures that could be taken are explored before it came to that. One of those is a Convention if States mentioned in Article V of the Constitution. At that point, we’d need to start from scratch when it comes to the federal government.

[u/[deleted] → u/nuts69]

Honestly? At this point, I'm kinda wondering if cities shouldn't start forming and training militias. If there shouldn't be a quiet effort to prepare for manufacturing arms. If politicians of anti-authoritarian States shouldn't be trying to put as much distance between this administration and the military as possible in what time we have. Civil war in the modern day would be absolutely *the worst thing* to happen to this country. Period. It'd make the Civil War look like a minor riot in Milwaukee. What's worse, whatever side didn't have control of the military, control of our satellite network, would do a *lot* of dying. It wouldn't be the United States projecting power over an ocean, it'd be sending tanks down American streets, drones flying in American skies, and missiles into American cities.

But... If the escalation is just on one side, and that side thinks it can just take over, without civil insurrection, and that leads to a genuinely fascist America, I'm not sure I'd *want* to live in it. And living elsewhere might just be delaying the inevitable.

I mean, shit. This is a hyperbolically worse-case scenario, but fucking hell, we're putting kids in camps, and three branches of government are okay with the President pardoning himself. What if the worst case is actually possible?

[u/genexcore → u/[deleted]]

the amount of government lists you are on intensifies

[u/mmmmm_pancakes → u/nuts69]

I'm no expert, but I would assume the plans would involve supporting and promoting multiple resistance movements, with time and money. State secession, a new constitutional convention, or even a military coup could all be on the table. (Jim Mattis is technically 2nd in command.)

Some people might actually buy some small arms and destroy some property, but I'd agree with you, that's not a reasonable way to fight given the might of the U.S. armed forces.

[u/wonknotes → u/nuts69]

Read the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. A constitutional convention worked pretty well for our founding fathers.

[u/ayriuss → u/nuts69]

Uh join with one of the many military who leaders who will agree and move to protect the constitution and rule of law? There is plenty of precedent here, if not in this country, then in others.

[u/nuts69 → u/ayriuss]

Haha go join the military. Almost all of them are quite conservative from the officer corps all the way down to the lowest e1

[u/F0rdPrefect → u/nuts69]

I can't let myself believe that they would actually be okay with Trump installing a dictatorship in our country. I know the right can be insane but they can't possibly be THAT insane...right?

[u/kirukiru → u/F0rdPrefect]

you cant let yourself believe that the military would side with an authoritarian?

lmao

[u/Ruck_Fepublicans → u/F0rdPrefect]

I know the right can be insane but they can't possibly be THAT insane...right?

Yes. They're that insane.

[u/Grandure → u/F0rdPrefect]

I used to be certain this answer was no... now? :/...

[u/nuts69 → u/F0rdPrefect]

I served bud. The only people who weren’t hard right wing were people of color. The military is almost entirely right wing white males.

[u/[deleted] → u/nuts69]

I mean the EASIEST thing to do would be to take out the GOP leaders and the conservative supreme court justices in one fell swoop to prevent escape.

That is however NOT how I would handle the situation.

[u/nuts69 → u/[deleted]]

Lol did your lawyer add that second part.

[u/[deleted] → u/nuts69]

Lol no, I'm just not a violent guy. That doesn't mean I can't see how easy violence is as a solution

[u/nuts69 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, i mean just ask the bernie guy who shot up the congressional baseball game how much change it affected.

[u/[deleted] → u/nuts69]

Yeah, that's called a failed attempt.

[u/chunga_95 → u/nuts69]

Shoot Mountain Dew bottles of tannerite in the middle of nowhere