The notion that the US Supreme Court is not political is pure unadulterated BS.
In 2013 when the Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 they opened Pandora’s box. For 48 years the act had provided a mechanism for making sure that states did not arbitrarily enact suppressive voter laws. Before any changes could be enacted the the states and local governments within the coverage formula were required to submit any proposed changes before implementation. While section 4b did not apply to the entire country it did serve to curb some of the egregious behavior of the past.
In ruling that 4b was no longer valid because the data necessitating it was 40 years old the court effectively assumed that behavior endemic to the past was no longer a problem. The vote of the Supreme Court was 5 to 4. I’ll let you guess about the breakdown of that decision.
Over the next seven years voter challenges grew as a means of disenfranchisement. Voters who had not voted consistently were at risk of finding that they had been removed from the voting rolls when they showed up at the poles.
After the 2020 election states that were largely dominated by GOP legislative bodies rushed to implement new laws designed to make access to the polls more difficult.
The conservatives on the Supreme Court may not have been totally surprised by the outcome of their decision in Shelby County v. Holder.
Politics as indeed become the norm in our judiciary. We are at a cross road. What we do over the next 12 months will determine whether we give up on being a Republic and become just another fascist regime.
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Bill, I think we’ve, for a long time, ceased to be a republic. In fact, not sure we ever were, in the purest sense of the word. Particularly since the founding fathers from the very beginning ensured that whatever the decisions of the “many,” the decision as to who would be president would be made by a “few,” by establishing something called “the Electoral College.” Never trust a government that doesn’t trust you to decide who should be your president.