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Is this the "final straw" in the destruction of our democracy?
The Supreme Court has a 30 year history of tearing down the civil liberties and the ability of citizens to seek redress in cases of corporate criminality. In recent years it has upheld and expanded the ability of the executive branch to wage war, invade citizens' private lives, and arrest and incarcerate without trial those the president declares to be enemies. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled against the rights of third-parties, especially left-wing parties, to ballot access.
In 2000 this institution halted the counting of votes in Florida in order to sanction the theft of the 2000 presidential election and install in power the Republican candidate George W. Bush, who had lost the popular vote.
This is not to say the Democrat party is held harmless in this take-over as they, in fact, are complicit in these attacks on democratic rights. One will recall not a single Democrat Senator rose up against the unconstitutional decision by the Supreme Court in the 2000 election decision, they have given unfettered support for the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, they showed no spine by refusing to filibuster to block the nominations of Alito and Roberts to the Supreme Court. Roberts played the critical role in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission which challenged the McCain-Feingold restrictions on campaign advertising to a single situation (the anti-Hillary documentary) and used it to undo all restraints on the corporate financing of politics, as though corporate money doesn't already manipulate elections, bribe politicians, and dictate government policy. It can now do it openly without impunity.
With the primary job of the Supreme Court being to uphold the Constitution of the United States one must surmise that based on decisions made in the past decade there are at least five who either do not understand the Constitution or are deliberately dismantling it. If the former is the problem we might need to impeach them for incompetence. If the latter is the fact we need to have them tried for treason.
They have definitely not been deciding in the best interests of the United States Constitution nor the citizens of the United States, in fact in the 2000 election decision they ruled our citizens do not have the right to have their votes counted! Not much of a Democracy without a valid counting of the votes.
