In 2022, they overturned the 49-year-old precedent of Roe v. Wade, which provided a constitutional basis for the right to abortion. No more. In 2023, they overturned the 46-year-old precedent of Bakke, which asserted that race-conscious admissions in higher education were constitutional. No more. Last week, they overturned the 40-year-old precent of Chevron, which provided a key foundation for the modern regulatory state. No more. And today, in their most brazen decision yet, they overturned a basic principle of American constitutional law from the founding — the idea that no one, not even a former president, is above the law. Add to all of these staggering reversals of major precedents the decisions in which the Roberts Court discovered an individual right to virtually unlimited gun ownership where no historian and no prior Court had detected any such thing, or in which the Roberts Court decided that corporations are people, my friends, and therefore wiped away a century of campaign finance laws, and many many more. And while the decisions coming out of this Court are bad enough, the fact that they’re coming from a collection of judges who have responded to serious charges of ethical lapses and outright corruption levied against them with nothing but contempt and condescension. Make no mistake about it — this is the most radical, destructive, arrogant Supreme Court in the entire history of the United States of America. https://kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/the-radical-roberts-court
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Date: 2024-07-01 09:25 pm (UTC)In 2022, they overturned the 49-year-old precedent of Roe v. Wade, which provided a constitutional basis for the right to abortion. No more.
In 2023, they overturned the 46-year-old precedent of Bakke, which asserted that race-conscious admissions in higher education were constitutional. No more.
Last week, they overturned the 40-year-old precent of Chevron, which provided a key foundation for the modern regulatory state. No more.
And today, in their most brazen decision yet, they overturned a basic principle of American constitutional law from the founding — the idea that no one, not even a former president, is above the law.
Add to all of these staggering reversals of major precedents the decisions in which the Roberts Court discovered an individual right to virtually unlimited gun ownership where no historian and no prior Court had detected any such thing, or in which the Roberts Court decided that corporations are people, my friends, and therefore wiped away a century of campaign finance laws, and many many more.
And while the decisions coming out of this Court are bad enough, the fact that they’re coming from a collection of judges who have responded to serious charges of ethical lapses and outright corruption levied against them with nothing but contempt and condescension.
Make no mistake about it — this is the most radical, destructive, arrogant Supreme Court in the entire history of the United States of America.
https://kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/the-radical-roberts-court