Far-right justices on the Court have helped create their own majority with few consequences to date, but younger generations are unlikely to accept their vision for America.
into the political process. None of this would have happened if Al Gore hadn't been torpedoed by the Supreme Court and been in office to make the appointments. And without these antidemocratic rulings, there is little doubt Donald Trump would have lost to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
This, of course, is the same Donald Trump who then put three more extreme-right-wing justices onto the Court, thereby likely cementing the far-right's dominance for decades.But as they say, pride goeth before a fall. And ironically, it is this far-right dominance that makes it all but inevitable that a titanic battle, one likely to be, is going to occur between the Court and a younger, mostly progressive, generation with an agenda of its own.
What is happening here is nothing less than an attack by the old against the young. By installing a Supreme Court prepared to constitutionalize right-wing dogma, the political right is stripping the generations that follow them of the freedom to decide for themselves what sort of society they will strive to achieve. By all indications,with fewer guns, more action on climate change, and greater guarantees of respect for diversity.
Millennials and Gen Zers will be asked to accept a situation in which, for decades to come, politically inspired legal opinions will prevent them from making changes a majority of them believe necessary in order to form a more perfect union.And here's something those six far-right justices might want to consider. In a war between the future and the past, the future always wins in the end.
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