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If “Elections Don’t Matter,” Why is the Supreme Court Preparing to Nullify the Popular Vote?
The radical six-member majority on the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has lately been demonstrating what it means to “deconstruct the administrative state.”
And it seems each draconian ruling is worse than the one preceding it.
It contravened 50 years of “settled law” when it overturned Roe vs. Wade, for the first time in history revoking rights instead of granting them.
In a sop to the so-called “religious” right, the court’s right-wingers then ruled prayer in school cannot be prevented, further eroding the secular enclaves America’s public schools have always been.
Last week, they demonstrated their medieval fealty to corporate donors by decreeing that government agencies, like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) specifically, cannot pass regulations pertaining to “major questions” if Congress does not pass legislation authorizing each individual regulation.
Now they are on the precipice of throwing the 2024 presidential election to republican state legislatures, the popular vote be damned.
On the last day of its term, the Court agreed to take up next session the so-called “Independent State Legislature Doctrine,” originating in 2000 after the…
