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have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy. </p><p>Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking<br />—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch<br />—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.</p><p>We can draw a straight line, for example, <br />from the Roberts Court’s 2010 <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Citizens\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Citizens</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/United\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>United</span></a> decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting, <br />to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender. </p><p>Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Super\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Super</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/PACs\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>PACs</span></a>, <br />giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters. </p><p>The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda, <br />meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.</p><p>Three years later, in <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Shelby\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Shelby</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/County\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>County</span></a> v.<a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Holder\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Holder</span></a>, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act, <br />invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination. </p><p>Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era <br />and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history, <br />declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.” </p><p>A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority. </p><p>“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,” <br />Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent. </p><p>But soaking us was the whole point.<br />The downpour continues. </p><p>Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander, <br />a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Rucho\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Rucho</span></a> v. <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Common\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Common</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Cause\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Cause</span></a>. </p><p>In that case, the Roberts Court<br />—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”<br />—conveniently found that <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/partisan\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>partisan</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/gerrymandering\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>gerrymandering</span></a>, <br />-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures, <br />-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.</p><p><a href=\"https://couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-</span><span class=\"invisible\">aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/</span></a></p>", "contentMap": { "en": "<p>On the U.S. Supreme Court<br />—Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy. </p><p>Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking<br />—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch<br />—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.</p><p>We can draw a straight line, for example, <br />from the Roberts Court’s 2010 <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Citizens\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Citizens</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/United\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>United</span></a> decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting, <br />to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender. </p><p>Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Super\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Super</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/PACs\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>PACs</span></a>, <br />giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters. </p><p>The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda, <br />meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.</p><p>Three years later, in <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Shelby\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Shelby</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/County\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>County</span></a> v.<a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Holder\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Holder</span></a>, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act, <br />invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination. </p><p>Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era <br />and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history, <br />declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.” </p><p>A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority. </p><p>“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,” <br />Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent. </p><p>But soaking us was the whole point.<br />The downpour continues. </p><p>Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander, <br />a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Rucho\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Rucho</span></a> v. <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Common\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Common</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/Cause\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>Cause</span></a>. </p><p>In that case, the Roberts Court<br />—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”<br />—conveniently found that <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/partisan\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>partisan</span></a> <a href=\"https://c.im/tags/gerrymandering\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>gerrymandering</span></a>, <br />-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures, <br />-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.</p><p><a href=\"https://couriernewsroom.com/news/alex-aronson-and-lisa-graves-how-the-roberts-court-eroded-democratic-institutions-and-brought-back-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span 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