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From culture wars to civil war?

Given the recent ethics questions about justices’ interactions with billionaires, it’s an interesting case to take on.

And that means the Court, by deciding this case, exercises authority it does not have. It violates the Constitution. . . . [T]he majority overrides the combined judgment of the Legislative and Executive Branches. . . . I respectfully dissent . . .

Dems Reintroduce Bill to Impose Supreme Court Term Limits

Movement judges as not interchangeable with partisan judges. Unlike a partisan judge, the movement judge will be tempted to advance a movement’s goals even when doing so may harm their political party’s electoral prospects.

The Supreme Court ruled race-based college admissions are unlawful, ending affirmative action programs at colleges. In her dissent, Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pulled no punches calling the ruling “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness.”

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The GOP & the billionaires who fund them learned their lesson. Never again would they allow a rightwing justice to stray beyond the rigid ideological boundaries set at that justices’ confirmation.