The Activist Court

Bleating Leahy, who voted for Roberts, was complaining this weekend how disappointed he is with Roberts’ partisan leadership of the reactionary Supreme Court. WTF? How can someone this bright be so clueless? The GOP agenda to radically transform the Court into the pro-corporate anti-democractic entity it used to be has NEVER been secret. Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts, and Kennedy: five conservative Catholic men are now the activist majority at the Court (talk about bad news for women!), and the Democrats did nothing to stop them from gaining that control. These guys stand for the power of the state (as a corporate tool), the corporation, and the church; they are the handmaidens of the elites. They are against desegregation, for control of the polity by wealth, for sectarian division, for controlling women’s bodies. Last week’s string of precedent-turning 5-4 decisions for “fee speech” (sic) for corporations and against free speech for high-school students; for the continuing re-segregation of education; and against antitrust were long ago foretold. Once again, thanks Democrats, for nothing.