Legitimacy

How Republicans Stole Two Supreme Court Seats In March 2016, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court with 293 days remaining in his term. Senate Republicans refused to hold hearings, claiming voters should decide in the upcoming election. In September 2020, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died with just 46 days before the election. Senate Republicans rushed through Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation in record time—just 30 days from nomination to confirmation. ...

Democracy’s Darkest Irony Here’s a fact that should alarm every American who believes in majority rule: six of the nine current Supreme Court justices were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote when they first ran for office—and confirmed by senators representing a minority of the American population. This isn’t democracy. It’s minority rule with a lifetime appointment. ...

The Legitimacy Crisis: A Court Out of Step with America Public trust in the Supreme Court has collapsed, and for good reason. Gallup polling shows confidence in the Court at historic lows, with approval dropping to just 40% in recent years—lower than Congress. The Court’s decisions increasingly split along purely ideological lines, with the six conservative justices voting as a bloc on the most contentious issues. This isn’t judicial reasoning—it’s partisan politics in robes. ...

The Abortion Rights Long Game: Decades of Deception The overturning of Roe v. Wade wasn’t a surprise legal development—it was the predetermined outcome of a decades-long campaign. ...

The McConnell Power Grab: Hypocrisy in Real Time The theft of the Supreme Court didn’t happen overnight. It was a carefully orchestrated heist, and Mitch McConnell was the mastermind. In February 2016, when Justice Antonin Scalia died, President Obama had nearly a year left in his term. Obama nominated Merrick Garland, a moderate judge who Republicans had previously praised. McConnell’s response? He invented a new rule: no Supreme Court confirmations in election years. “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” McConnell declared, blocking even hearings for Garland. ...