Kind of gross to see the Biden Supreme Court Reform Commission post a bio of a panelist that brags about his role in undermining the Violence Against Women Act.
Yes, true: Progressives criticize the Supreme Court for gutting the Voting Rights Act, handing a presidential election to the rightful loser, and inviting unlimited corporate spending on our elections, while conservatives criticize the Court for ending school segregation.
Here, Levey just straight-up bullshits the Commission, pretending that Senate confirmation of Anthony Kennedy in 1988 didn’t happen.
Also it isn’t a “norm” if nobody has heard of it until you invent it and even then your own allies misstate it because it’s so convoluted.
One very simple counter to this is that if you respond to a transgression by merely undoing the transgression, you do not create a disincentive for transgression, for the perpetrator is no worse of than he would’ve been had he not transgressed.
Here, another right-winger (Randy Barnett) tells the Commission that the Supreme Court is “a protector of our rights and liberties from majoritarian infringement.”
The word “our” is doing a lot of work there, since the Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act.
Conservatives want you to think they favor protecting the rights of the minority from the tyranny of the majority because they know that if they just came out and admitted they seek to uphold the *tyranny of the minority* they’d get booed off the stage.
Here, Barnett tells the commission that the proper way to change the composition of the court is to win elections.
Sounds nice; is bullshit.
Republicans have appointed 15 of the last 19 SCOTUS justices despite losing the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections.
It’s notable that even conservatives stipulate that the composition of the Supreme Court should reflect the nation’s political will. But it *doesn’t, and hasn’t for decades, and that’s why reform is necessary.*
I spelled this out a few months ago —> crooked.com/articles/supre…
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