Authoritarian regimes need a complicit, corrupt judicial system to consolidate their antidemocratic power. As soon as MAGA Republicans secured a deeply conservative majority on the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), it was clear to me that the conditions for this were in place and that the effects on American law would be severe, long-lasting, and dangerous. And indeed, Chief Justice John Roberts and the SCOTUS majority have wasted no time in aiding and abetting the ever-growing subverting of the American Constitution and the Rule of Law in the United States.
As a lawyer, it sickens me to watch this debasement of justice and legal principles. It disgusts me that it is being committed by a Chief Justice and his majority bloc of the Supreme Court, all of whom swore to uphold the Constitution. Yes, the Supreme Court's minority bloc and many lower court judges across the United States are doing their best to protect and apply democratic justice and the Rule of Law, but at the end of the day, they are not more powerful than SCOTUS. As the highest court in the land, SCOTUS is the one which shapes American law.
I saw this meme the other day --
It was accompanied by this comment --
"Roberts’ SCOTUS should be included."
Yes, yes, it should.
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