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Tuesday, May 10th, 2022

The case against the Supreme Court of the United States

Author:     Ian Millhiser
Source:     Vox
Publication Date:     May 3, 2022 | 9:08pm EDT
 Link: The case against the Supreme Court of the United States
Stephan:   For the entirety of my life and yours, the Supreme Court has stood apart from the rest of the federal government. It was an institution of Law, not a political operation. However, thanks to the christofascist Federalist Society, Donald Trump, and Mitch McConnell, that sacred status has been destroyed and the reality that the court is, and always has been, a political entity has become clear. The Republican Party and those that support it are dismantling the American republic, one agency, one entity at a time. And if the Republicans become the majority in the House and Senate after the November election, you can kiss American democracy goodbye.
Dred Scott, whom the Supreme Court of the United States described as a being “of an inferior order.” Credit: Getty

Two events occurred Monday night — one historic, the other rather insignificant — which placed an unflattering spotlight on the Supreme Court of the United States.

The historic event was that Politico published an unprecedented leak of a draft majority opinion, by Justice Samuel Alito, which would overrule Roe v. Wade and permit state lawmakers to ban abortion in its entirety in the US. Alito’s draft opinion is not the Court’s final word on this case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, but the leaked opinion is the latest in a long list of signs that Roe may be in its final days.

The other event that also occurred last night is that I sent two tweets. One praised whoever leaked Alito’s opinion for disrupting an institution that, as I have written about many times in many forums, including my first book, has historically been a malign force within the United States. And a second celebrated the leak for the distrust it […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 11:34 pm

    I really hope we can get rid of McConnell somehow. He has too much power in the Senate, and has been there too long.