-- A rather pointed statement on SCOTUS vacancy from Senator Warren --

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20. Actually, ultraconservative are committed to destroying the Constitution

as we know it. Some years ago they mostly abandoned the amendment route as too difficult and decided to concentrate on getting control of the courts, especially SCOTUS, to cement their anti-government (controls on them) ideology into law by REINTERPRETING constitutional law. That unlimited money poured into elections could be a form of free speech never entered the minds of those who wrote and voted for the Constitution, but the thinking on that was recently changed, and not on its own by natural processes.

BTW, by far most of their money does not go directly to electing candidates, but instead works in different ways to subvert our democracy through activities of tax-exempt "charitable" foundations. There are now hundreds of these doing things like endowing departments at universities staffed with people they approve, sending in operatives to defeat local bills that would raise taxes or protect the environment, etc.