Voting for presidents and senators has far-reaching consequences. The U.S. president nominates federal judges, including Supreme Court justices.
The senators confirm them When you vote you are helping shape the judiciary. The present court has to change. It has become an activist court helping the right-wing implement its plans. This court has decided that presidents have immunity for anything done during their administration. However, the U.S.
Supreme Court retains the right to decide what is, and what is not, immune.
This makes the president a dictator in all but name, backed by the Supreme Court if its members agree with the activities.
This court has gathered to itself a great power.
With the overturning of the Chevron Doctrine, now only federal judges can make regulatory decisions.
Experts are much better at making these decisions.
The black robe does not provide infinite knowledge.
The Supreme Court has helped the far right in other ways. Justice Clarence Thomas’ immunity concurrence on the illegality of the special prosecutor provided the road map for Judge Aileen Cannon to throw out the classified documents case against Trump.
Corruption is rampant in this court. The case making “gratuities” for government officials legal if taken after a decision simply tries to make what some of the justices have been doing for years acceptable. At least two of the justices have taken gifts from people who have business before the court.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be above politics, but its recent decisions prove that the majority of members are operatives for the far right, are accepting what are effectively bribes from people with business before the court, and are also collecting power for themselves.
How you vote will undoubtedly affect the trajectory of the Supreme Court
and lower federal courts.
— Penny Goodstein
Anchorage
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