10 Sep 2023 9:19 am
WE Americans must keep an eye on this ball. The Supreme Court has become an arm of the Koch/ALEC Fascistrazoo » 22 Aug 2023, 6:29 am » wrote: ↑ Defund and Delegitimize The Supreme Court !!!!!The Supreme Court’s approval rating is at record lows. A Gallup poll this summer showed that only 40 percent of Americans approve of the job the court is doing. Forty percent is low, but it should be even lower.
The Supreme Court rules over the country based on our consent to be governed by it. It rules over Congress because Congress consents to follow the court’s orders. It rules over the president because the president consents to enforce the court’s orders.
That consent is directly tied to the view, held both by the people and the actors in government with real power, that the random thought bubbles emanating from the asses of nine unelected law clerics are legitimate. It doesn’t have to be this way. Arguably, it shouldn’t be this way.
To discuss potential paths toward delegitimizing the court, my first guest on this episode is Harvard Law School professor, Nikolas Bowie. He makes a compelling case that the people, through their representatives, should be the ones in charge, not the Supreme Court.
https://www.thenation.com/podcast/archi ... eme-court/
movement which demonstrates how easy it became to subvert.
The USA has plenty of courts we can let the Supreme court go. Any body of thinkers that can decide who should be president as in GW Bush and can destroy a Woman's Right To Choose has no business being in power.