Thread by @LiptonLubet

I hesitate to try to wrap up this term, when so many of its devastating effects are just starting to be felt. But here it goes.
The Supreme Court is now about the raw exercise of right-wing power. 1/?

Republicans are using the court to unleash a revolution. They’re taking a sledgehammer to every principle & precedent of the last century that had been moving us slowly toward a society where women, POC, LGBTQ+, religious minorities & others had a shot at equality.

They want to tear it *all* down. And they’re doing it at breakneck speed. Abortion rights. Voting rights. Climate justice. Separation of church and state. Gun violence prevention. Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone.

The Supreme Court’s “decisions” (b/c what they’re doing here is not law, as we used to understand it) are indistinguishable from Republicans’ war on women, on LGBTQ+ families, on BIOPC communities. *It is the same war.* The court is now simply a weapon Republicans are wielding.

I’ll say it again: #scotus is a Republican weapon. It’s not lofty, it’s not principled, it’s not some fantastical palace of reason. It’s raw, reactionary, political power. If our elected leaders refuse to reckon with that, we’ll never understand the terrain we’re fighting on.

For folks who think that the effort to #ExpandTheCourt is radical - it’s actually the *least* radical thing we could do right now. We’re talking about passing a piece of legislation to set the size of the court as contemplated in the constitution. It’s literally Congress’s job.

When 6 unelected extremists are casting aside all norms and precedent and the rule of law to catapult us back to the 1800s - honestly, what could be more measured and reasonable than court expansion.

Supreme Court justices aren’t kings. They don’t get to rule us without our consent. Join the movement to #ExpandTheCourt at takebackthecourt.today.