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I direct your attention toDahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, and also toDigby. It appears that six of the so-called Justices of the Supreme Court intend to end the American experiment in democratic governance. You should read both of them -- they say pretty much the same thing but with significant stylistic differences. I ' m not going to elaborate much, but here are a couple of pull quotes just so you know what were talking about here. From L&S:For three long years, Supreme Court watchers mollified themselves (and
others) with vague promises that when the rubber hit the road, even the
ultraconservative Federalist Society justices of the Roberts court would
put democracy before party whenever they were finally confronted with
the legal effort to hold Donald Trump accountable for Jan. 6. . . . We promised ourselves thatthere would be cool headsand grand bargains and that even though the court mightsometimes
help Trump in small ways, it would privilege the country in the end. We
kept thinking that at least for Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil
Gorsuch andChief Justice John Roberts,
the voice of reasoned never-Trumpers might still penetrate the Fox News
fog. We told ourselves that at least six justices, and maybe even
seven, of the most MAGA-friendly court in history would still want to
ensure that this November ’s elections would not be the last in history.
Political hacks they may be, but they were not lawless ones. . . .On Thursday, during oral arguments...
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