THE PITIFUL LITTLE GESTURES made in a few recent rulings and rejections to hear cases doesn't even much register on their full attack on Voters of Color, those in groups who tend to favor Democrats and their other measures to ensure Republican-fascist rule and their imperial presidency.
What I think all those tiny little gestures mean is that they hear the so far muted demands for Court reform and they're hedging their bets in case that blue tsunami happens.
Nothing short of ending the Marbury usurpation by which the Court has been favoring political corruption for the last half century since they issued the Buckley v Valeo ruling that started the flood of dirty money and millionaire and billionaire domination of our politics and every other measure the Court has taken TO PREVENT THE CONGRESS AND SOME PRESIDENTS TO CLEAN UP OUR POLITICS, nothing short of abolishing Court mandated political corruption will be enough. What Nixon did before then was a trickle of dirty water by comparison.
From Buckley v Valeo onward, the Supreme Court has done with their rulings what Bull Connor did to those who demanded equality and the right to vote with attack dogs and fire hoses.
If some of those early "justices" in 1976 did so out of their political naivety doesn't change the fact of what they did. The corruption that plagues the United States now is a consequence of their mowing down the clean elections laws to get money out of our politics using "free speech" as their excuse. The tell in that is how "freedom of speech" is now the slogan of the billionaires, millionaires, white supremacists and fascists. They wouldn't care about it if it had not become their major tool in destroying equality and democracy.
They have used the Marbury power to mow down every single measure to make the United States a country of equal rights and voting rights and economic justice since the first significant use of it in the Dred Scott decision in which they abolished the long standing law that abolished slavery in SOME of the territories and SOME of the states. I would argue the Court was about that well before then in such rulings as the Antelope case and the Prigg case, in which actions of the Congress and state governments restricted slavery and the abduction of free People in free states by those who would kidnap them into slavery were set aside or overturned. The Supreme Court has been the primer locus of such corruption in the United States, far more typically corrupt than the Congress and even the presidency.
We end that or we see any future progress against our indigenous and new forms of fascism mowed down by the Court in the future as the Roberts Court has done as Courts have done since the time of Marshall and Story.
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