{"id":26701,"date":"2024-07-03T18:53:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T18:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26701"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:09:41","slug":"these-are-the-times-that-try-mens-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=26701","title":{"rendered":"right wing political machine…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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6 Republican Right Wing US Supreme Court Justices<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The US Supreme Court has become an unabashedly right-wing political machine, untethered by precedent, text, ethics, or judicial restraint in its pursuit of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a matter of days, they handed the president sweeping criminal immunity, gutted the power of agencies like the EPA and FDA to protect the public, made it easier to pay off local officials, greenlighted the criminalization of homelessness, and more.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: The Intercept\/July 3\/24 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MEANWHILE LOOKING BACK…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source of portrait :Thomas Paine oil painting by Laurent Dabos, circa 1791.NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“…some [dictator] may hereafter arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desperate and the discontented, and by assuming to themselves the powers of government, may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Thomas Paine from a 47-page pamphlet Common Sense , published in Philadelphia 177<\/em><\/strong>6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Paine was an England-born political philosopher and writer who supported revolutionary causes in America and Europe. Published in 1776 to international acclaim, \u201cCommon Sense\u201d was the first pamphlet to advocate American independence. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“These are the times that try men’s souls”. Thomas Paine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chief Justice Roberts has a plan for an American Autocracy {} Thomas Paine had a <\/em><\/strong>
plan for an American Democracy<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Project 2025<\/strong>, also known as the Presidential Transition Project<\/strong>, is a collection of conservative policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation<\/a> to reshape the United States Federal government and consolidate executive power  should a Republican Party candidate win the 2024 presidental election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Critics of Project 2025<\/strong> have described it as an authoritarian, Christian nationalist initiative aimed at reshaping the United States into an autocracy. Several legal experts have argued that it would erode the foundations of the rule of law, the separation of powers, the separation of church and state, and civil liberties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Court Painter seen with painting  6 Right Wing Republican Supreme Court Justices<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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