In Rucho v. Common Cause (2019), five black-robed men, Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, treasonously ruled that challenges to any partisan gerrymandered map were "non-justiciable" at the federal level. In other words, the Federal courts can't weigh in on claims of partisan gerrymandering.
The sane voices of dissent to the intolerably Un-American and Un-Constitutional decision, Kagan, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor, argued, correctly, that the majority abandoned the Court's duty to protect democracy, asserting that federal courts could and should address partisan gerrymandering because it undermines fair elections and equal participation, with some lower courts already developing workable standards to evaluate these harmful practices. They contended the majority's refusal to act would encourage more extreme polarization and that modern technology makes gerrymandering more precise and damaging than ever.
Surprise, surprise! That ruling has caused more devastating and more lasting damage than the worst of what the dissenters predicted.
Rucho v. Common Cause is another of the horrific decisions that must be reversed if we are to have a hope in hell of quickly effecting change for the better.
We WILL achieve transformative change, but with the tools the black-robed traitors on SCOTUS have deprived us of, it will be an uphill slog.
SCOTUS reforms MUST be top of the agenda. The modest proposals Biden made after the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States issued its mealy-mouthed report are just a beginning. For example:
Term Limits: An 18-year term for justices, ensuring more regular turnover.
Ethics Code: A mandatory, enforceable code of conduct, requiring recusal for conflicts and prohibiting political activity.
Presidential Immunity: A constitutional amendment clarifying that presidents aren't immune from prosecution for crimes committed in office, reacting to recent Court rulings.
Job 1 is expansion of the court to overturn the most destructive and Un-Constitutional decisions that have been issued by the Roberts court.
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