Commentary: The Supreme Court has become just another arm of the religious right — and the rest of us are all paying for it.
, President Biden said that the Court does not represent America, that its rulings are out of step with our country’s deepest-held values.Of course, with divided government, there’s not much that can be done. But he could at leastmandatory ethics rules for Supreme Court justices. He could propose term limits, which unlike ‘stacking the court’ are more neutral in application but which would lower the stakes of Supreme Court appointments.
And arguably, Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion invalidating that North Carolina map had the effect of justifying his radical pruning of the Voting Rights Act. Like the tree in the children’s book, he’s chopped down its branches and sawed off its trunk – but look, you can still sit here on the tree stump!
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