God won’t save this Supreme Court: That job belongs to all of us

The current Supreme Court, more precisely the right-wing court majority solidified with three Donald Trump justices, is failing Americans in catastrophic fashion. It’s time to do something about it.  

The recent decision to complete the Roberts Court’s long and torturous gutting of the Voting Rights Act — while pretending that’s not what they were doing — is a clarifying moment.   

Justice Elena Kagan’s dissent in Louisiana v. Callais was appropriately unsparing. She noted that the Voting Rights Act “was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers” and “ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality.” She lamented that the “now completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act “threatens a half-century’s worth of gains in voting equality.” 

This is an enraging and deeply discouraging moment for supporters of civil and voting rights. And it is far from the first.  

A recent letter to Congress from dozens of civil rights and pro-democracy organizations notes that the court’s “rolling back voting rights, reproductive freedoms, environmental protections and commonsense gun laws, and dramatically expanding presidential immunity,” puts it “out of step with the American people while enriching wealthy right-wing political donors and corporate interests.”

It adds that the court majority has “encouraged and enabled Trump’s most authoritarian instincts,” often via rulings on its shadow docket, enabling massive harm without the benefit of public airing of arguments for and........

© The Hill