Category: Supreme Court

Term limits on the Supreme Court will take too long to have an impact

what I wrote in comments on the Washington Post site.

Your editorial supporting term limits states “The reform would take a long time to work.” Are we supposed to put up with 30 more years of the extremist court until the Trump justices are gone?  (I assume it would not apply to current justice.) This right-wing court will continue to do damage so this would not solve the problem any time soon.  I expect them to endorse the independent state legislature theory in the next term.   Term limits are a good idea but something else must be done sooner.

One thing that should be done is a law requiring the Senate to have hearings and a vote on any presidential nominee for the Supreme Court. A repeat McConnell’s shameful behavior on Garland is unacceptable.

Update on the bad Supreme Court decision on the praying coach

Justice Kagan on the credibility of the Supreme Court

It’s not just the terrible decisions made by the extreme right majority, it’s how the Trump justices got there.

Public approval of the Supreme Court sinks after their terrible abortion ruling

The Supreme Court shadow docket

Influences on right-wing Supreme Court justices must be investigated

Congress or DOJ must look into this. The Supreme Court is destroying its own reputation.

Look how their favorability is falling. This will make it fall more.

More on the Supreme Court’s bad EPA ruling (7/2/22)

It’s bad for the environment

It’s bad for the government’s ability to function (which was the right-wing extremists’ intention)

More on the terrible Independent State Legislature theory

One lesson from the Democratic failure to respond to the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade

It’s pathetic that the Democratic Party didn’t have a response ready when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. There were months, even years to prepare for this.

We should learn from this error and be better prepared for the next Supreme Court sessions. It is possible (I would say probable) that the Supreme Court will endorse the extremist Independent State Legislatures theory. Republican legislatures can bypass the will of voters and the impact of their state courts and make electoral decisions that benefit their candidates.

What can be done to prevent this decision? We need much more publicity now on how bad it would be.

What can be done to blunt the impact if the Court does support the theory?

We should start thinking about this now, not wait until the Court acts. Obviously, there is no action to extreme for the current group of justices so we must prepare for the worst.