How the Supreme Court Was Lost

[LawDem]

A Court Betrayed

https://buzzflash.com/articles/steve-day-for-buzzflash

"Could there be anything more absurd than the recent Republican pearl-clutching over Democratic proposals to increase the size of the Supreme Court? Having stolen not one, but two, Supreme Court seats from Democratic presidents, they now cry foul when Democrats try to take them back. Thieves caught in the act, they now feign outrage when their victims try to reclaim the loot.

But to truly understand what is happening today, it is necessary to revisit how we got here.

The elevation of Bret Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court marked the culmination of a decades-long right wing crusade to gain control of the federal courts. Largely financed by a small group of extremely wealthy conservative backers, the leaders of this movement were prepared to be patient. After all, they were playing for the big prize — nothing less than the opportunity to rewrite American constitutional law. They wanted the country to go backward, to readopt long discredited legal theories under which they, and their businesses, would be largely freed from government regulation, leaving them free to pollute, evade safely rules and crush unions. They wanted an end to those pesky civil servants telling them what they can and can not do. Accomplishing all that would require playing the long game." (*More*)

(My article)

[RANDYWILDMAN]

1. A lot of that hinged on the 2000 presidential election and everybody knows it!

That theft has opened pandora's box... The RW have been dumbing down the court ever since. We no longer have the best and brightest on the court. We mostly have Federalist society APPROVED. Those people are bought and paid for.