Flushing Out the High Court

BECAUSE of the thoroughly bizarre consttution of the current high court, books by the bushel full are beginning to appear on it, books which are for the most part very well written, incisive, and contribute to scholarship on the topic. Concerning the Current Court, it is especially worthy of scrutiny and analysis precisely because it is going to inexorbly have a fundamentallly prodound impact on the fture of this country, in fact already has, and many if not most of these new books are highly critical of it and the process by which it came into being."Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America: by Michael Waldman, As the title indicates, Waldman's work is no exception. The very first sentence, on the cover, preface to the preface, the author proclaims: "In its first year with a conservative 6-3 supermajority the United States Supreme Court handed down decisions which overturned decades of settled law and radically altered American life. There is more to come." Republicn leadership, including Trump et al, with the enthusiastic aroval of conservative Christian America, atched and successfullly implemente a pot to capture control of not only the SCotus, but the court system in general as much as possilbe, to use in imposing, or reimposing a far right wing agenda of our poor, beseiged Country.Even more terrifyingly, they hav only but begun.There is anear unlimited amount of future damage they can and will do to America. Already the far right SCOTUS has endoresed the reduction of voting rights, rights for LGBTQ people, religius freedom from christianity, and women's reproductive feedom and choice. How mu longer until this gang of exremists approves of book banning and teaching false, hagiographic American history, culture, and politics in public schools? Under this court government is losing the oportunity to combat racism by legislation; soon we will begin to see signs of a newly resegregated America. We are already seeing them, as paritipation of African-Americans in universities and white colla professions begins to decline. America's far right wing, a powerful force, manifested largely in the MAGA ovement, essentilly wanst to return America to the wy it sws in the ninieteen fifties, and the techniues to do so are shockingly remindful of those employed by Hitler and the Nazis in Germany in teh nineteen the thirties. Right wing populism with enemies galore, foreign and domestic, inluding progressives, the media, academia, science, and minorties. They wnt to "Make America great again", the way America used to be, Hitler wanted to "make Germany great again". The current Supreme Court is the best weapon they have, and they are using it very effectively.