If the Democratic Party wants a big, hot issue that would force the GOP to admit its disdain for democracy – how about those Supremes?

The Supreme Court, intended to be an apolitical, neutral arbiter of legal cases brought before it, has been elevated to a supreme legislative body by today’s 6-person majority of extreme right-wing partisans controlling this Third Branch of our government.

I’m hardly a legal scholar (unless you count my week-and-a-half in law school!), but you don’t have to be in Who’s Who to know What’s What. From my lifetime in politics, I can attest that what these Republican judges are doing is pure politics, using their black robes as cover for flagrant political activism. Coordinating surreptitiously with right-wing ideologues and corporate money powers that shower favors on them, they intentionally bring up case after case designed to rewrite America’s laws. These six aloof judges are effectively enacting a new political order of plutocratic, autocratic, and theocratic power over the beliefs and democratic will of America’s pluralistic majority.

Posing as “conservative” jurists, they’ve steadily concentrated arbitrary lawmaking power in their own hands. Reaching way beyond the Court’s Constitutional role of deciding cases, today’s Supremes now effectively create law by choosing cases to bring up, favoring those fabricated by such right-wing political allies as the Koch brothers and the Federalist Society. Moreover, the six partisans cherry-pick isolated parts of a case to advance their collective agenda, even ruling on legal questions the case doesn’t raise, simply making up their own questions.

With no legal, ethical, or electoral checks on this secretive, anti-democratic government, the Court now routinely rules against workers, women, civil rights, the environment, personal liberties, and… well, against America! Shouldn’t we have at least one political party calling them out and reining in their arrogance?

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