Will Bunch: When will Americans flood the streets to protest our broken, corrupt Supreme Court?

[Nevilledog]

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/supreme-court-corruption-ethics-code-20230309.html

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https://archive.is/VJcZt

So it turns out that a huge number of voters actually do understand that it’s essential for a functioning democracy to have a fair and uncompromised judiciary, even when the rules needed to make that happen tends to be arcane and unsexy. They finally get it ... in Israel.

Incredible scenes have been witnessed in the streets of Tel Aviv, where last weekend a record throng of as many as 160,000 protesters packed every inch of the main thoroughfares downtown to voice their extreme displeasure with proposed changes by the increasingly far-right government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Coupled with protests in other Israeli cities, it’s been estimated that the rate of citizens protesting in the Middle Eastern nation is the equivalent of 8.6 million Americans taking to the streets, or about three times the size of the 2017 Women’s March.

And the protestors are so outraged over the Netanyahu-backed changes — which would restrict the ability of Israel’s Supreme Court to strike down legislation or overrule the executive branch — that they vow to be back every week, even as government forces respond with water cannons or other more forceful measures. “I hope that this huge demonstration will effect and prove that we are not going to give up,” 53-year-old history teacher Ronen Cohen told Reuters.

Here in the United States, citizens have already seen the independence and moral standing of our Supreme Court shrink under the weight of millions and now billions of dollars in billionaire “dark money” around the confirmation and lobbying of High Court justices, their frequent ethical lapses, and the increasingly political and thinly justified majority decisions they hand down. But this deterioration has been allowed to fester over decades, like a frog in boiling water, and not in one fell swoop as proposed for Israel. The streets here are empty.

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[onecaliberal]

1. Black people, brown people and women aren't even trusted

To make our own decisions in this country. We’re all allowing the white fascist pricks to take down the country while we wait for something.

[maxsolomon]

2. No, Americans won't take to the streets to protest the SCOTUS

In the last 50 years (1973 was 50 years ago), mass protests don't result in governmental change in America. They result usually in election losses and legislative backlash.

It's TBD if they will stop Netanyahu's plans in Israel.

[TheRealNorth]

3. The Conservatives know....

Any inconvenience we can cause by protesting/occupying can be outlasted, because most people will see nothing changing and will eventually give up. Only when a protest inflicts substantial economic pain will they take action.

[calimary]

4. Frustrating as hell.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Extreme wealth inequality has resulted in the Subversive 6 on the Extreme Cult.

That's not all that has been purchased.