How did the Supreme Court get this far out of control?

How did the Supreme Court get this far out of control?
Robert Reich in 2013 (Wikimedia Commons)
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What should we make of this week’s Supreme Court ruling that semi-automatic rifles with bump stocks are not machine guns? Or its ongoing decision to slow-walk the question of presidential immunity, effectively pushing the Trump insurrection trial until after the election — or maybe never? Revelations about more secret cash to Clarence Thomas. Justice Samuel Alito’s views that “differences on fundamental things … can’t be compromised” and that America must return to “a place of godliness”? And Thomas’s and Alito’s refusals to recuse themselves from cases involving Trump?

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How did the Supreme Court get this far out of control? | The Coffee Klatch | June 15, 2024 by Robert Reich

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Robert Reich is a professor at Berkeley and was secretary of labor under Bill Clinton. You can find his writing at https://robertreich.substack.com/.

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