Is SCOTUS in on the Coup and Trying to End American Democracy?

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by thomhartmann

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From gutting both civil and voting rights, to kneecapping union rights, to helping George W. Bush steal the 2000 election that Al Gore won in Florida by more than 40,000 votes, the Court’s conservative majority has steadfastly held to the Burkean belief that too much democracy is a danger that can only be balanced by handing as much wealth and political power as possible to the morbidly rich.

Which is why expanding the Supreme Court and establishing a code of conduct for its members via a new Judiciary Act must become one of the first jobs of a second Biden administration.

The fear of that happening, in fact, may well be one of the reasons why Republicans on the Court went so far out of their way to help Trump return to the White House via the delays they’ve inflicted on Jack Smith’s efforts to hold him to justice.

Trump’s attempted coup is nowhere near done: both the Republican Party and the Republicans on the Supreme Court are working as hard as they can to complete it and replace American democracy with naked oligarchy.

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Limited to only 4 paragraphs I chose these. If you have time, please read the entire article.

Chilling…

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1. Maybe they are auditioning

Even a dictator needs corrupt judges.

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2. SCOTUS made their anti-democracy plan obvious in 2000!

Great article by Tom Hartmann that connects the current corrupt, anti-democracy GOP SCOTUS majority to the 2000 corrupt, anti-democracy SCOTUS majority. The anti-democracy 2000 GOP SCOTUS made it pretty clear that their plan was to end democracy by stopping the legal Florida vote count. The current anti-democracy GOP SCOTUS is clearly following in their anti-democracy footsteps. Let's also not forget that 3 of the current GOP SCOTUS judges, Roberts, Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett all worked as lawyers helping W steal the 2000 election in Florida.

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3. The Court Just Sealed Everyone's Fate, Including Its Own

The New Republic

Brynn Tannehill
April 26, 2024

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But the justices did not laugh this argument out of court. Quite the contrary: At least five of the justices seemed to buy into the Trump team’s arguments that the power of the office of the president must be protected from malicious and politicized litigation. They were uninterested in the actual case at hand or its consequences. Elie Mystal, justice correspondent at The Nation, perhaps captured my response to the Supreme Court’s arguments best: “I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act.’ I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.”

At a minimum, it appears the court will send all of the federal cases back down to lower courts to reconsider whether Trump’s crimes were “official acts.” It’s also likely that their new definition of “official acts” is likely to be far broader than anyone should be comfortable with, or at least broad enough to give Trump a pass. This delay all but guarantees that Trump will not stand trial for anything besides the current hush-money case before the 2024 election.

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These justices’ foolishness lies in their lack of foresight as to what happens if Trump wins in 2024. In the justice’s efforts to ensure that they are the most powerful branch of government, they are about to make it the weakest. They are creating a win-win situation for Trump, and a lose-lose for themselves. When Trump is president again, he is likely to believe that he has the option of “removing” any member of the Supreme Court who defies him. As long as the court doesn’t rule against him, they’re fine. From the justices’ perspective, they either end up neutered lap dogs of a despot, who do whatever they’re told out of fear, or they defy him and end up somewhere … unpleasant (at best). Taking a dirt nap at worst. After all, if Trump can rub out a political opponent, can’t he do the same to an uncooperative jurist?

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In the end, the court appears to be doing everything to destroy itself, democracy, and the union, with its own arrogance and lack of foresight. It’s either castrated itself, and in the process doomed the country, or signed its own death warrant.

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Pretty chopped up but I tried to post the salient points. Again, a very interesting and chilling read.

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4. It's time to leave the country if Trump wins in November!