One recent Supreme Court decision is already rippling through dozens of key lower court cases involving everything from airline fees to gun sales to abortion access, affecting people’s lives in important — and sometimes contradictory — ways.
What’s worse is that the current SCOTUS has twice now (at minimum) demonstrated that it can right what it perceives as wrongs made by previous SCOTUS decisions (Roe v Wade, and now Loper Bright), and yet we still have Citizens United.
The SCOTUS is effectively playing the long game in creating a coup against the US government. I’d blame conservatives/GOP, but I feel this is much more nefarious than they could come up with on their own. But that’s teetering on tinfoil hat territory. 🕵️♂️
Edit: I realized I meant to reply to @d00phy@lemmy.world’s comment. 😊
What’s worse is that the current SCOTUS has twice now (at minimum) demonstrated that it can right what it perceives as wrongs made by previous SCOTUS decisions (Roe v Wade, and now Loper Bright), and yet we still have Citizens United.
The SCOTUS is effectively playing the long game in creating a coup against the US government. I’d blame conservatives/GOP, but I feel this is much more nefarious than they could come up with on their own. But that’s teetering on tinfoil hat territory. 🕵️♂️
Edit: I realized I meant to reply to @d00phy@lemmy.world’s comment. 😊
We’re already balls deep in Russian intervention. I don’t think conspiracy is off the table.
The Federalist Society is the shadowy organization you’re looking for.
Exactly.
They are the ones playing the long game and have been stacking the courts with henchmen for decades.
Mitch McFuckingDemonTurtle wasn’t spending his life refusing to hear judicial nominations from Democrats for nothing.