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It will be steamrolled in court until it reaches the radical, ultra-conservative Supreme Court who will say that the Constitution doesn't mention cameras and has no opinion about filming, at which point the law will stand.


Frustrating, but that makes sense. What's the mechanism to lawfully replace the current Supreme Court with normal people?


Wait until they die.

Strictly speaking, there is a legal mechanism to remove them, but it basically wouldn't happen short of them being a serial killer. It requires the house of representatives to pass articles of impeachment by majority vote, then the Senate to hold a trial presided over by the chief justice of the supreme Court, at which a supermajority vote would lead to removal from office.


The legal mechanism to fix all of this is to vote out the fascists. It's going to take a while.

I am hopeful because this country survived McCarthyism, the Vietnam War, and other authoritarian nightmares.




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