As the Supreme Court starts hearing oral arguments for their fall term, legal experts have been sounding the alarm about Moore v. Harper, the redistricting case out of North Carolina that, depending on how justices rule, could substantially alter the future of American democracy. The case offers a dramatic reimagining of election powers at the state and federal level.
John Roberts might just flee up his own craven asshole.
He lamented over why the Supreme Court would take the case up in the first place.
“There is no reason to believe that there would or should be any agreement among the justices as to how to fashion federal constitutional constraints on the state supreme courts’ review of their legislatures’ laws under their own respective state constitution,” he writes. “But there is every reason that they should never try.”
They took the case because they are a bunch of partisan hacks that will do whatever it takes to benefit the Republican party, as we have seen Alito do today.
If the illegitimate, corrupt Republican Supes didn’t constantly demonstrate bad faith, I wouldn’t even know they had any faith at all.
SCOTUS to the state supreme courts: “Our decisions are sacred law. Your decisions are bupkis.”
I’m not entirely sure how that’s accomplished, but I’m up for letting him try.
Noting that the theory under discussion is the basis for Trump and Republican “fake elector scheme”, the real question is did the writers of the constitution intend to give state legislatures the power to end democracy and simply declare they win all elections regardless of how people vote?
That is " the independent state legislature theory" is that state legislatures have total and independent control over who wins elections and are not in any way restrained by democracy.
So the real question is not how “conservative” is the Republican and not conservative majority on the court, as the media including TPM keeps calling the the majority, but rather how fascist is the Republican and not conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
Shorter Republicans: gerrymandered state legislatures, maintained by voter suppression practices and dirty tricks, should be the sole arbiters of election outcomes, the hell with the courts, governors, the Voting Rights Act, or state constitutions.
Even shorter: we stole it fair and square.
It’s about time this RW ‘Solomon’ sounds off on the anti-democracy maneuverings of this Supreme Catholic Cabal. This gerry-mandered Court is paving the way for ‘Orbanic’ governance.
The recent statements from Alito and Roberts lamenting the talk of SCOTUS losing legitimacy shows that they remain completely oblivious to the dangerous and unstable ground they are walking on. Every decision is like an invitation to tear the country apart. But, like certain right-wing heads of state we could mention, they think so little of their ideological opponents that it’s assumed there will be no consequences. A Special Judicial Operation, if you will.
Morsi is always my go to guy.
Or. . . Democrats under Biden have the House and Senate and repubs have the Supreme Court. And the fact that SCOTUS has become the handmaiden of the party bothers them not at all. It’s been their goal for decades, working with the Federalist Society to get us into this place where non-partisan means nothing.
the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade, expanded the Second Amendment’s scope by finding a right to carry guns outside the home, curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory power to combat climate change and enhanced religious rights by validating taxpayer money for religious schooling.
@petekwandojr FYI
“All your base are belong to us.”
And one can argue that it is the filibuster, and not Democrats, that actually controls the current Senate.
I think the takeaway from all this craziness is we have to rely on the legislation side for the time being because that’s what we can control in the short term. And please, don’t give me the political jaded hipster thing about how it’s already all rigged, nothing you can do, forget it. It’s not. But when judges tended to be more even-handed they could be a better check on bad legislation; today the situation is reversed. If you have a majority that’s going to put forward in bad faith a tendentious and erroneous theory of the law like this, we’ll have to fix it with people we can vote in. A month left, folks. Let’s all do what we can.
Let’s just ask Shatner to challenge Roberts. Winner gets SCOTUS.
(Actual photo of Shatner and Roberts.)
Barrett issued a non-denial denial some time back which tells us all we need to know.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett said last year while speaking to an audience at the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, “this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks.”
That the justices are discussing the legitimacy of the Supreme Court in the open is reason enough for us to discuss the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as well.
Ya stole my act.
When we hang on every word Sinema says about being in favor of 60 votes being need to pass anything, we’re in trouble. Pols have become a lot dumber in the last 50 years, Reagan, Quayle, Palin and now we can add Sinema.
