The Corrupting of the High Court

UNLESS YOU HAPPEN TO BE a far right Christian conservative extremist, you have noticed over the past few years, or perhpas past few decades, something going very wrong with the United States Supreme Court.Its been filled with far right wing extremists appointed by far right wing presidents, with the help of Congressionl extremists, who jammed nominees through and succeeded in preventing any decent, reasonable nonimes from even being considered. In his new monogrpah: "The Super Majority; How the Supreme Court Divided America", Michael Waldman, President of The Brennan Center, a progressive think tank, explains this judicial tragedy, wnd elucidates what precipitated it. He focuses on the most recent court session, last summer, 2022, when the court overturned Roe v. Wade, greatly loosened gun rights restrictions, even as the nation is besdieged by a national epicemic of gun violence and mass shootings. the court overturned a law in New York City whcih had been in effect for over a hundred years, prohibiting carrying guns in public. Now, Anyone on the street in New York can legallly be bearing a firearm. The Court greatly weakened the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to protect the environment, even as climate change roars down upon us, more each day. Conservative judicial extremism. The problem with all three of these decisions is that they are insane, unreasonable, contrary to progress, harmful to the country, and utterly without actual legal basis. This is the same judicial misguided philosophy which ruled in 2010 that money is speech, thus allowing for unllimited amounts of unaccountable money to be injected into political campaigns. They call themselves, thes wacky jurists, "originalists", meaning that they consider it absolutely manditory to read and interpret the constitution exactly the way its authors did. Obviously, they don't actually do this. The idea that they do is a scam, a lie, a false pretext to burden America with a conservative extremist society, legally. for instance, by "bear arms", the founders meant "serving in the military." Today's right wingers have reinvented the phrase to mean "a private citizen taking a gun with him wherever he goes..carrying a weapon". In colonial times, gun laws, firearm restrictins on owning, carrying, and using, were the norm. But every man was required to serve in the military, the local well regulated militia. It was the nation's defense, its national army. Ou rcontemporary right wing extremists now have us all armed to the hilt, out in public. And the mass carnage continues, all because of a grostesque, deliberate misinterpretation of the constirution by the people who claim to know, understand, and obey it the best.