Chuck Darwin on Nostr: The supreme court now serves the billionaire donor class – let’s rein it in The ...

The supreme court now serves the billionaire donor class – let’s rein it in

The Supreme Court
– the governing body intended to safeguard the freedoms that are so crucial to the ideals of civil rights
– has been weaponized by an extremist faction.

One-third of the supreme court is dangerously political
and was appointed by an individual who has repeatedly made clear he seeks to dismantle American democracy.

Another three have spent their terms ignoring decades worth of legal precedent
and prioritizing the interests of the elite few over the working people, families and communities that drive our nation forward.

As a Maga supermajority,
these justices have undone established rulings and legal norms
in an attempt to reverse the progress of modern America and to systematically unravel Black political power.

Those who pose the greatest threat to our freedoms will not only be on the ballot this November
– they will be sitting in robes behind the bench.

All we have to do is look at their track record to see what they’ll do next.
For over a decade, extreme justices have issued legal rulings that force an unpopular and radical agenda on to the American people that is rooted in white supremacy.

Everywhere you look, you will see the story of a supreme court that has radicalized in service of its billionaire donors at the expense of Black Americans

In just the past few years, these justices’ decisions have opened the door for extreme actors to gut the freedoms of communities of color
– from passing anti-voting bills that make it harder for Black voters to cast ballots
to abortion bans that disproportionately affect Black women.

And the seeds they’ve planted are beginning to take root in the district courts and courts of appeal.

The supreme court’s Maga supermajority dismantled affirmative action
– taking away our most potent tool to level the playing field in higher education
– and opened the door for gun violence to run rampant in the disastrous Bruen case.

And this week, the court will hear oral arguments for a case that seeks to destroy the federal government’s ability to confront the most pressing issues of our time.

Everywhere you look,
you will see the story of a supreme court that has radicalized in service of its billionaire donors
at the expense of Black Americans
– gutting union power to attack workers’ rights,
rolling back the clock on reproductive rights to strip people of the ability to make their own healthcare decisions,
decimating environmental protections in service of corporations.

After all, Black workers continue to have a higher union membership rate than white workers,
despite making up just 14% of the US’s total population.
Black women have 2.6 times the maternal mortality rate of white women.
Black and Latino voters are disproportionately targeted by state-based voter suppression laws that require ID checks to cast a ballot.

Black Americans continue to be targeted by conservative donor interests because our rights are intrinsically intertwined to American progress.
If we strengthen our educational system, we increase access to colleges for Black and brown students.
If we remove barriers to the ballot box, more elected officials will be elected to fight for civil rights.
And that’s bad news for America’s billionaire donor class.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/maga-supreme-court-billionaire-donor-class?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other