IN THE ROBERTS COURT, THE PEOPLE BE DAMNED.

• Date: 01 August 2022
• Author: Hightower, Jim
• Published date: 01 August 2022
• Author: Hightower, Jim

Today's six-member ultra-conservative supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court has surrendered all claims to being an impartial moral force for blind justice. Instead, the Republican Party's small network of corporate and rightwing operatives has painstakingly fabricated and weaponized the court as its own political oligarchy. In only a couple of decades, these anti-democracy zealots, backed by a few billionaires, have incrementally begun imposing on the United States an extremist political agenda that they could not win through the ballot box.

Their eureka moment--the startling development that opened the eyes of moneyed elites and ideologues to the raw power they could grab by politicizing the judiciary--was the Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore ruling, widely perceived as illegitimate among liberals and progressives. In December 2000, the five-person Republican majority abruptly crashed Florida's presidential vote recount, storming over both democracy and judicial propriety to install George W. Bush in the White House. Appalled, dissenting...