Poisoned roots: Corrupt Supreme Court bears toxic fruit
Alito refuses to recuse himself from cases on Trump and Jan. 6 over flag controversy
Surprised? Just another toxic decision from a MAGA Justice.
“Trump, working with a right-wing foundation supported by right-wing billionaires, the Federalist Society, has appointed not only dozens of little Matthew Kacsmaryks and Aileen Cannons, but three of the right-wing justices who are undertaking to decimate the Supreme Court’s previous decisions and rule on new cases brought to them through a pre-arranged right-wing pipeline set up precisely for the purpose of the courts remaking the laws of this country.” — Lucian Truscott
Check this relationship map for the toxic fruit from courts with roots poisoned by right wing billionaires. What role do spouses play? What do the billionaires packing the courts with right wing extremists get in return?
“Trump’s four years in the White House were, in many ways, a revolution interrupted. They transformed the federal judiciary and led to the fall of Roe v. Wade, the end of many gun laws, and a sweeping transfer of power away from the elected branches of government and toward a Republican-controlled judiciary.” — VOX
“What can be done under the Constitution with corrupt justices like Alito and Thomas, who not only rule as they are told by the right-wing billionaires, but feast at their tables and sail on their yachts and fly on their Gulfstreams? Nothing, that’s what.” — Lucian Truscott
Packing the courts with extremists
“The Republican Party set out decades ago to achieve these goals. They have raised and spent not just millions, but billions of dollars to carry out their plans. Recently, Leonard Leo, he of the Federalist Society, was given $1.6 billion by a single right-wing billionaire to spend as he wishes to pack the federal judiciary with judges and justices who will be friendly faces when the billionaire and his cohorts decide they want a law overturned, or a regulation squashed, or an entire federal government department like the Environmental Protection Agency defenestrated.
Fossil fuel billionaires own the judiciary
The extraction industries like oil, gas, and coal practically own the federal judiciary at this point. And the racist states of the Old Confederacy have been empowered to run roughshod over the Civil Rights Laws of the 1960’s that have until recent years protected the rights of Black Americans who fought for hundreds of years for first their freedom and citizenship, and then for their rights as citizens to vote and be educated and earn a living like every other American citizen.” — Lucian Truscott
TakeAway: “We must face the question of how long will it be until MAGA Republicans create a dictatorship, and what will we do to stop them.” — Lucian Truscott
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