John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh Are Rigging the Supreme Court Docket

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John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh Are Rigging the Supreme Court Docket

Last June, Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh shocked observers by joining the court’s three liberal justices to reject an Alabama congressional map aimed at diluting Black voters’ power. The ruling marked a (likely temporary) hiatus in the Roberts court’s systematic dismantling of the Voting Rights Act. It also invited a bevy of columnists to opine, See, this court isn’t so bad after all!

On the one hand, some fanfare was warranted. The Allen v. Milligan opinion was a genuine surprise, and as a recent lower court ruling in Georgia demonstrates, its effects will reverberate throughout the 2024 election cycle and beyond. A bad ruling would have been disastrous.

On the other hand, focusing on the decision obscures a disturbing reality: In the decade since it decimated the VRA with its notorious Shelby County v. Holder decision, the court’s right-wing majority has used its docket-setting power to tilt the playing field so sharply against democracy that even the rare “wins” simply preserve a degraded status quo.

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.

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Despicable people.

[turbinetree]

2. Roberts has been rigging it since the Bush gang put him on the bench...

and then we have this piece from 2005......they just forgot to mention the Communication Team that worked in the Bush White House.......since Meirs wasn't going to get on the bench ....... becasue after all the legacy of Roberts is that money is free speech......

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harriet-miers-is-no-john-roberts/

[Mr.Bill]

6. I remember back then

Bill Maher refered to Miers as "Bush'es cleaning lady".

I'm no Bill Maher fan, but that one was .

[ShazzieB]

8. I remember a brilliant cartoon from that time.

Took me a while to find it online again, but I finally tracked it down!

[Blue Owl]

3. ALL of the toxic corruption in the Supreme Court is squarely on the Republican's side

Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito -- every one of these goddamn fucking crooked bought-out sacks of shit are GUILTY of rigging the justice system.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Between the undemocratic SCOTUS

and the Electoral College BS, the GOP has killed democracy in the US. Pretty amazing when you think about the fact that they can't govern their way out of a brown, paper bag with a flashlight and scissors.

[FBaggins]

4. A fairly silly claim

Obviously - if there are five votes to overturn a lower court… you don’t have to “rig” anything to get the four votes needed to grant very. Similarly… if you can’t get four votes to hear an appeal of an anti-democracy ruling… you obviously can’t get five votes to overturn it.

Again - no need to “rig” anything

[bucolic_frolic]

7. For some reason Roberts has taken Kav under his wing

[a kennedy]

9. FAWKING tRump GOT 3 on the Supreme Court!!!!!!!!!!! ENOUGH SAID. 🤬 🤬 🤬

[NBachers]

10. And I might not live long enough to see them all die.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. The Subversive 6 have transformed our Supreme Court into their Extreme Cult.