The big conservative freakout about the Supreme Court is a sham
At the moment of their sweetest victory, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court appears to be freaking out. As they prepare to overturn Roe v. Wade as part of a grand project of social retrogression, they and their defenders seem shocked by the idea that anyone would consider their actions to be political.
But that’s exactly what they are. And we should stop pretending otherwise.
After a draft opinion overturning Roe was leaked to the media, conservatives brayed their feigned outrage at the supposed desecration of the leak itself, even though it might have come from the conservative side to lock in the five-vote majority for that position. In the days since, the leaks have kept coming — and now they’re obviously from the conservative camp.
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How it works is that the Federalist Society identifies promising conservatives in law school and grooms them for judgeships; the Republican Senate refuses to allow a Democratic president to fill judicial vacancies; right-wing nominees deceive the public about their intentions; then once they are in the majority, they slash away at every policy and precedent they don’t like, whether on abortion or campaign finance or collective bargaining or environmental regulations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/11/reason-republicans-insist-supreme-court-is-not-political/
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