But don’t just take my word for it. Here’s Roberts in his own words: “The most important thing for the public to understand is that we’re not a political branch of government. They do not elect us. If they do not like what we are doing, it’s more or less just too bad.” www.c-span.org/video...
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The Roberts court is historically unrepresentative of the American people, and unsurprisingly, also historically unpopular and polarizing.
It’s not unusual for a Supreme Court to rule in favor of the wealthy and powerful. But the Roberts Court has created a ratcheting death spiral for democracy unlike any we’ve seen.
These plutotheocratic interests fund the Federalist Society, which over the last three decades has literally planned and executed an unprecedented transfer of unchecked political power to its own loyalists.
But the six members of the Roberts majority DO owe their positions to a cabal of 1) plutocrats, who directly benefited from rulings like Citizens United and Loper Bright, and 2) theocrats, who have a fierce ideological commitment to outcomes like Dobbs and Hobby Lobby.
Think of it this way: The justices on the Warren and Burger Courts who gave us Brown, Roe, and Gideon did not come out of a multibillion dollar pipeline constructed by civil rights activists, feminists, or indigent prisoners.
Apologists for the Roberts Court say that other courts have also overturned major precedents. But other courts were not specifically installed for that purpose.
But, as much as we worry that Trump will follow through on his pledge to be a “dictator on day one,” we have allowed Roberts’s “institutionalist” sheen to blind us to the fact that his majority has operated as an unaccountable dictator for nearly 7,000 days now. www.weekendreading.n...
The Roberts Majority: Dictators Since Day One
Barack Obama and Kamala Harris have both talked with patriotic pride about how theirs is a “story that could only be written in America.” But, thanks to the Electoral College, so too is Donald Trump’s a story that could only be written in America. For more, read: www.weekendreading.n...
Resisting Learned Helplessness
What’s more, Trump has turned the original justification for the Electoral College on its head. Instead of checking popular passions which might elect an antidemocratic demagogue, it has done the opposite – installing an antidemocratic demagogue the people rejected.