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How MAGA’s SCOTUS Lit the Fire Burning American Democracy By Matthew Fox 1/22/2025 |
How did we get to where America is today? Much credit must go to today’s SCOTUS. Is it the most corrupt Supreme Court in history? Let us count some of the mortal, i.e., deadly sins they have foisted on our democracy. |
In an insane opinion, Citizens United declared that corporations are people, giving them and billionaires practically unlimited rights to buy elections. This decision will live in infamy alongside the Dred Scot Decision. It too is causing a civil war in America. |
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reason why politicians are up for sale and busy voting for the rights of corporations. It is why ordinary citizens feel totally unrepresented in the government. Many turned in 2024 to a con man to bail them out…and how is that working? SCOTUS deliberately dragged its feet for many months to guarantee that Donald Trump would not face charges before the 2024
election for his dominant role in the January 6 insurrection. That action told America everything they needed to know about Trump’s interest in democracy. They also delayed the trial for his crimes in stealing security documents and putting them unguarded in the public places of his Mar-a-Lago palace. |
Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains a new legal term, “Kavanaugh Stop,” from Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s defense of a Supreme Court ruling giving ICE permission to launch raids and detain people based on racial profiling. | Now, with presidential powers at his fingertips, he thinks nothing of invading cities with his “personal” militia, otherwise known as ICE, employing Gestapo-like tactics. And, they, like the
Klan of old, cover their faces so their unmentionable deeds remain anonymous. Completely contrary to the Constitution, SCOTUS has given |
this same narcissistic felon, convicted 34 times over, complete immunity to commit whatever crimes his demented brain drums up. In just the past months: making war on his own citizens as is happening now in Minnesota; invading another country (Venezuela) to seize their assets for his billionaire friends; threatening to do the same to others (Greenland, Cuba, Mexico, Columbia watch out). Meanwhile we mark the anniversary of his inauguration, launching his reign of
terror by releasing 1600 proven insurrectionists, many of whom had tortured and killed policemen protecting the national capital from him and his now freed insurrectionists. All while the president sat and watched it all on television, cheering on those who wanted to hang his vice president. He feels empowered to seek revenge on
politicians who do not agree with him by threatening them with jail. |
SCOTUS has gutted the Voting Rights Act — achieved at an immense price of people going to jail for non-violence and some being murdered — all to ensure that people of color have fewer opportunities to vote than white people. |
Democracy Docket’s Mark Elias explains the latest SCOTUS
ruling: candidates may always challenge election laws —
enabling any
MAGA candidate to refuse to accept election
results. Brian Tyler Cohen |
In the same vein and with the same purpose, SCOTUS has allowed Texas and other states to lift any restrictions whatsoever on gerrymandering elections. This SCOTUS let slide obvious corruption where members accept gifts proffered by super-rich oligarchs and their corporations, many of whom
are actually facing trials before them. And they wonder why trust in the court is at an all-time low. All six of them came to the Supreme Court by way
of recommendation of Leopold Leo, now a billionaire, who was and is in bed with the fascist Catholic group, Opus Dei. That is their constituency and their base, and what made them who they are. |
“What — Me Worry?” in the face of political strife: MAD #30 (December 1956), the earliest known appearance of Alfred E. Neuman as the iconic magazine mascot. Wikimedia Commons | They have proven they don’t give a damn about democracy. Or the Constitution that, for 250 years, has stood as an ideal in bad times and in good. This is one of those truly bad times. If Dante were alive today, he would paint a special place for them as hypocrites and democracy-haters in the netherlands of hell, with Chief John Roberts at the top of the heap. Shame, shame, shame on this scurrilous Supreme Court so busy defending MAGA in all its many mortal, that is, lethal sins. Its epitaph ought to read: “What, me worry?” as they smile like Alfred E. |
Neuman while American democracy is bleeding for all the world to see. There was a day in my lifetime when SCOTUS appeared to be on the side of truth, justice, and the Constitution. Not now. Dr. King, whose feast day we celebrated this week, lived and fought in those times. Tomorrow, we will reflect on the final essay he wrote before his martyrdom. |
Banner Image: “Show of Force.” Backlit by glaring headlights, ICE agents menace Minneapolis residents on a dark January night. Photo by
Ken Fager on Flickr. |
Queries for Contemplation Do you also see the Citizens United decision as a key moment in the slide of
American democracy? Is there a hint there as to how to get democracy back? |
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