2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Party loyalty is a means of control. I vote for those who will represent me, period. [View all]F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)Genuinely. Whatever judge is appointed will be moderate at best.
The supreme court has a nasty history of making terrible decisions whenever they can. They've totally demolished the idea of institutional racism in the law (well, prevented it from being used to abolish things, anyways). They've allowed massive inflections of money. Etc, etc, etc.
It's all movement politics. The supreme court is an inherently unjust institution. They are not on my side. We need to build movements to oppose them, or they will continue to destroy what little meaning can possibly be found in our legal system.
For instance, I don't think they would have legalized ssm if it hadn't been for the movement behind it. Just as an example.
So to me, the supreme court is a side issue. They're just one facet of a system I oppose (and relative to the big industries and financial powers, arguably less influential).