According To U.S. Supreme Court, The Right To Buy An Election Is More Protected Than The Right To Vote In One
The extraordinary lengths to which the Court has shown it will go to enable the rich to effectively buy elections with its blithe disregard for the rights of people should terrify all those concerned with the survival of our extremely weakened and problematic democracy.
The Court’s Republican majority [believes] the right to purchase an election warrants considerably more protection than the right to vote in one, at least more than the right to vote of people of color.
Contrasting the extraordinary lengths to which the Republican majority has shown it will go to enable the rich to effectively buy elections with its blithe disregard for the rights of people (at least those of color) to vote in elections should terrify all those concerned with the survival of our extremely weakened and problematic democracy. As it stands, it is entirely possible the fate of that democracy may be decided by this Court – and soon.
Congress has the power to ensure the Supreme Court majority is one committed to the law and to democracy. It can do so by increasing the size of the Court. Perhaps it also can do so by elevating the several hundred U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges to be Supreme Court justices to rotate onto the Court. Now, while our democracy remains more or less functional, and Democrats—the only one of the two major parties committed democracy—control the presidency and the Congress, might be a good time for Congress to take one or both of those actions.
This important article written by CommonDreams.org
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