That’s apparently what they believe by how their acting.
But Supreme Court history is a funny thing. When the Court drops numerous prominent and unpopular rulings (as they have been lately) that tanks their approval, the other branches of government and voters don’t just stand by and accept it.
The history of FDR’s court-packing plan is instructive. His plan was ‘defeated’, but by then he had achieved his goal with two of the Justices switching to his side and upholding some of his New Deal legislation as Constitutional.
With the corruption and unpopular rulings from the Court, I foresee a similar collision happening much sooner than in decades. I can’t say when or how it will work out, but don’t be surprised if the SCOTUS changes significantly in size, composition or organization in the near future.
The only thing I have to add here is that you guys have no idea how incredibly transgressive this is with regard to the entire legal culture of the state and it’s jurisprudence. I find myself particularly appalled by Deitz joining in on this.
This thing reeks of a bunch of Federalist Society YR law clerks ginning up yet another coup de e’tat because SCOTUS has signaled that rule of law is tired and raw power is wired.
And the hell of it is that the Alito Court absolutely will not let mootness keep it from ruling. All they have to do is misapply the “capable of repetition but evading review” exception to the rule that mootness deprives the Court of jurisdiction.
The Judiciary in this case, and in every state, and federally, had better check themselves, lest they wreck themselves. I’m sure they don’t want a quippy “…has made his decision, now let him enforce it” attributed to their political enemies as their rulings are ignored. A legal system made of a fabric of dependencies cannot be remade from new cloth whenever the parties rendering judgment changes. Otherwise I guess we need to relitigate Marbury vs Madison - precedent be damned.
Maybe, if we are willing to wait many years. this rightwing Legislature in NC came in with the Tea Party, and has simply destroyed North Carolina with their Bathroom Bills and their attack on Education and their fundementalist theocracy that they intend to rule with. I do not see that changing much because of a seriously rightwing electorate, and a power hungry Legislature. They have gerrymandered themselves comfortably safe districts, and this new rightwing court nor the rightwing SCOTUS is there to make sure that democracy and the Constitution remain the basis for our government.
North Carolina used to be something of a bright light in the South, in spite of spawning Jesse Helms. It has been made a laughing stock by these clones of that bigoted old fart. I am still really glad he is dead.
Chicken, meet egg.
I see this as a toxic, deliberately engineered spiral toward public cynicism and anger or apathy.
People are lectured about the consequence of not voting, and yet they are taught over and over–by gerrymandering in the US House and state bodies, by the filibuster in the US Senate, and by the rise of unaccountable courts–that their votes don’t matter, because achieving a majority (the only general, intuitive yardstick of fairness) is irrelevant.
In the case of gerrymandering, it’s irrelevant to delegation/chamber control, and in the US Senate, chamber control is fatally irrelevant to passage of any non-reconciliation bill. And because of the knock-on effects of these ills to the judiciary, there’s a good chance anything that does get done gets overturned or hamstrung by delay in some stacked, venue-shopped, or shadow-docketing court.
Anyone who isn’t a careful student of political niceties blames the party in charge for the gridlock they see, & buys into the “both parties are the same bunch of sellouts with different jerseys, and gov’t is the problem” narrative, which is so helpfully promoted here at home by the party that doesn’t WANT government to do anything, and abroad by Putin and other rivals that want our system to fail.
The people who are cynical and angry as a result respond to demagogues like TFG, and the cynical and apathetic just tune out, leaving the field to the saboteurs.
Did you read Josh’s piece on right wingers attacking the power grid to incite a race war? I get the feeling we are on the razors edge of Republican sponsored chaos.
