A new study published on Thursday and led by my colleague Chelsey Davidson found that since the 2012–13 term, more than 80 percent of election-related cases on the Supreme Court’s hand-picked docket could move the law only in a direction that degraded fair elections.
In that time, the Supreme Court accepted 32 cases involving core democracy issues such as redistricting, ballot access, campaign finance, and VRA enforcement. In 26 of them, the lower court had issued a pro-democracy ruling. This means that the best-case scenario at the court was affirmation of the status quo, while a reversal of the lower court would restrict voter participation. By contrast, the justices picked just six cases where they might reverse anti-democracy rulings.
I’m with you. Dems are pro-corporate, socially conciliatory, meaning they’ll never rock the boat ever.
Which means they’ll never produce a real leader. They will never make JFK capable of giving the nation a direction. They’ll squeak the loudest wheel and continuing to sell out the everyday Americans estates for end of Life health care, ensuring all money ends up at the top within a single lifetime and where you’re born is the caste where you’ll 99% of the time stay.
Entrenched oligarchy. Neo-fuedalism behind corporate slogans absolving shareholders of guilt and culpability.
They’re takind everything of worth before they lock themselves away, prob down on the soon to be one of the last temperate climes of the Antarctic peninsula.
There’s a military plan for climate change. It involves a lot of guns pointing out from around the richest and the “elites”. If you aren’t in those circles now, you ain’t getting there.
I used to think there’s no way America would lock its borders down to the ~500mill in Central America and Mexico, now I’m less naive. Not only will we lock it down, we got enough bullets to make the Colorado reach the ocean again, AND live up to it’s name.
Solve a problem or sacrifice the poor? Hmm. How has society treated every problem in the past 50 years?
…oh it’s gonna be bad.