Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Evaluation of the tilted Supreme Court

 

This op-ed in the Washington Post, about a Mitch McConnell op-ed in the Washington Post, is a GREAT read. Ruth Marcus rarely disappoints.  

(BTW, Mitch had a bit of a problem at a press conference today, July 26. I hope it's not a big problem. Just enough to convince him to resign his seat.  Unlikely, but one can hope.)

McConnell built a conservative Supreme Court. Why doesn’t he want you to know?

"Under McConnell’s no-holds barred stewardship, Justice Antonin Scalia was replaced — not by President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, but by President Donald Trump’s, Neil M. Gorsuch. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy retired to make way for Brett M. Kavanaugh. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died just before the 2020 election, and McConnell muscled through her replacement, Amy Coney Barrett.

Roberts, Kavanaugh and Barrett are not centrists, not even close. They are committed conservatives who happen to occupy the center of a court that has veered dramatically to the right."


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