The Supreme Court Only Cares About the Wealthy and Powerful
If you don’t already have money and power, the current Supreme Court majority doesn’t care about you. That must be our major takeaway from the 2023–24 term.
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If you don’t already have money and power, the current Supreme Court majority doesn’t care about you. That must be our major takeaway from the 2023–24 term.
The Supreme Court has recently become a witting or unwitting facilitator of Project 2025’s dystopian agenda for the future.
Each year, this is the month progressive organizations hold our breaths on certain weekday mornings, wondering which life-altering decisions will drop next.
Maya Angelou warned us: “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Just how many times do the conservative Supreme Court justices have to show us who they are before we respond accordingly?
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If we want to preserve what we have left we have to acknowledge the very real and present threat and demand champions who will fight back.
With the fate of democracy hanging in the balance, we are left wondering whether the courts are up to the task of holding Trump accountable at all.
The power to appoint judges is yet another critical reason we must continue to invest in electing more Democratic governors.
The Constitution has a provision to protect our democracy in exactly the situation in which we find ourselves right now. We need to use it.
There really is no way for the Court to protect Trump and defend the U.S. Constitution — it must choose and bear the consequences.
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