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It’s Time To Accept That the US Supreme Court Is Illegitimate

Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn The Guardian
Reformers must insist on remaking institutions like the US Supreme Court so that Americans don’t have to suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule that makes a parody of the democracy they were promised.

Will the Court Rule for Trump or for Wall Street?

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way. In what may be its most difficult challenge: To whom does it owe its ultimate submission and greatest obeisance: Donald Trump, or Wall Street?

The Roberts Court Is Winning Its War on American Democracy

Matt Ford The New Republic
Chief Justice John Roberts has now overseen 20 years of increasingly illiberal rulings by the Supreme Court. Presidential immunity, for example, did not exist until Donald Trump asked for it and the Roberts court gave it to him.

Appeals Court Judges Publicly Admonish Supreme Court Justices

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney Politico
“They’re leaving the circuit courts, the district courts out in limbo,” one judge said during appeals court oral arguments that turned into a venting session about the high court’s terse emergency rulings.

The Imminent Death of the Voting Rights Act

Linda Greenhouse The New York Times
White people are depicted as victims of discrimination;.white South Africans are invited as refugees; the president demands a museum designed to tell the African American story must tell a happy tale. The voting rights law may not see a 61st birthday

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Sotomayor in Dissent: None of Our Rights Is Safe

Shirin Ali Slate
The three dissenting justices use stark language to frame the threat: “The Court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution. ... No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.”

Friday Nite Videos | June 20, 2025

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