Opinion | The Texas anti-abortion decision is the result of a decades-long plan by the right to take over the courts. It's time liberals start treating the Supreme Court as what it is: a warped, anti-democratic institution. By astradisastra
, calls"legal cadre" — a pipeline for ideologically extreme justices and funding for a tsunami of litigation.
"The right's strategy has been bearing fruit via a growing number of cases for years," Brangan told me."But the real harvest has been in the form of the current Court, whose majority comes directly from the cadre ranks." The fruits of these efforts include decisions such as 1976's Buckley V. Valeo and 2010's Citizens United V. FEC, which both tightened the vice grip of big money on our political system, eroding democracy bythe power of big donors and corporations. There was also 2000's Bush V. Gore, in which five unelected individuals installed a president who had lost the popular vote. Both George W.
, the Republican party has radicalized against democracy. Unable, or rather unwilling, to adapt their strategies to win over a majority of voters, they lean on other tools to ensure their dominance — including erroneously claiming election fraud to justify a spate of voter suppression laws. This duplicitous approach is all the more egregious given that the rules already tilt dramatically in their favor: The Electoral College favors rural Republican States — as does the Senate — and gerrymandering means Republicans can win a majority of seats in Congress even though they win less votes than the opposition. Taking control of the Supreme Court is the icing on the anti-democratic cake. Republicans aren't the only ones who deserve blame.
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