John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh Are Rigging the Supreme Court Docket
John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh Are Rigging the Supreme Court Docket
John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh Are Rigging the Supreme Court Docket
A new study published on Thursday and led by my colleague Chelsey Davidson found that since the 2012–13 term, more than 80 percent of election-related cases on the Supreme Court’s hand-picked docket could move the law only in a direction that degraded fair elections.
In that time, the Supreme Court accepted 32 cases involving core democracy issues such as redistricting, ballot access, campaign finance, and VRA enforcement. In 26 of them, the lower court had issued a pro-democracy ruling. This means that the best-case scenario at the court was affirmation of the status quo, while a reversal of the lower court would restrict voter participation. By contrast, the justices picked just six cases where they might reverse anti-democracy rulings.
End life time appointments, now. Pack the court, now. Pray some of those fuckers keel over, quick.
There's enough to impeach Kavanaugh and Clarence if the Dems had the presidency and congress.
Unless the senate itself is dramatically changed, Dems will never have the 2/3 majority needed to remove anyone, and I’m not holding my breath for the GOP to put country before party anytime soon.
The Democratic Party, as it exists today, is structurally incapable of what your suggesting. Their entire power structure is based on suppressing the left, and NOT activating / mobilizing their base for real political or societal changes towards leftist goals, or projects.