One author is in the federalist society (the reason SC is corrupt)…
And the other seems to believe international laws shouldn’t exist and Israel is totally cool…
They want us to “accept” it’s corrupt and somehow do away with the entire notion of a SC and replace it with some “populist rule”.
Similarly, progressives are increasingly converging on the idea of both expanding and “disempowering” federal courts. Attentive to the reality that the supreme court especially is not and rarely has been their friend, left-leaning advocates are finding ways to empower ordinary people, trading the hollow hope of judicial power for the promise of popular rule.
To label as “nihilists” those sketching an alternate, more democratic future is, in other words, not only mistaken but outright bizarre. Rather than adhere to the same institutionalist strategies that helped our current crisis, 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.
In Trump’s second term, the Republican-appointed majority on the supreme court has brought their institution to the brink of illegitimacy. Far from pulling it back from the edge, our goal has to be to push it off.
They’re right wingers trying to hijack progressivism to destroy the SC after it changes all the laws to how they want, and before the left can use it as a weapon to change the laws back.
I’d love to say people won’t be naive enough to fall for this, but I don’t want to lie
I think this is a misread of the article. They don’t seem to be suggesting any actual solution, and only mention “populist rule” in passing with no specifics.
But they do seem to be blaming the left for not doing anything about the problem. And I thought it was funny how at the top they were like “even liberals like Roberts”
One author is in the federalist society (the reason SC is corrupt)…
And the other seems to believe international laws shouldn’t exist and Israel is totally cool…
They want us to “accept” it’s corrupt and somehow do away with the entire notion of a SC and replace it with some “populist rule”.
They’re right wingers trying to hijack progressivism to destroy the SC after it changes all the laws to how they want, and before the left can use it as a weapon to change the laws back.
I’d love to say people won’t be naive enough to fall for this, but I don’t want to lie
I think this is a misread of the article. They don’t seem to be suggesting any actual solution, and only mention “populist rule” in passing with no specifics.
But they do seem to be blaming the left for not doing anything about the problem. And I thought it was funny how at the top they were like “even liberals like Roberts”