The Court’s Corruption Seeps Into Every Tissue of American Life

We talk a lot today about gerrymandering and court reform. I would like to highlight one of the many ways in which the two issues intersect. Democrats are consistent on redistricting. They have supported and continue to support a national gerrymandering law to prohibit the practice. They reiterated that commitment today even as they prepare to counter new GOP demands to eliminate black legislative representation in the South.

But of course, such a law poses a problem. It was obvious before and it’s even more obvious in the wake of Sam Alito’s corruption-filled decision that gutted the remains of the Voting Rights Act. The corrupt majority has now redoubled its efforts, not only on the non-reviewability of gerrymandering, but also on gerrymandering as a critical and fundamental state right. In this context, it is all the clearer that corrupt members of the Court would simply decide that an anti-gerrymandering law was unconstitutional. The Court’s abuse of power now extends to any laws that would limit its goal of rebuilding the country through corrupt means.

So it all comes back to the reform of the Court. The toxins and bacteria of the Court’s corruption have spread into every fabric of American life. The source of corruption must be addressed at its source if America is to experience any kind of democratic renaissance or if civic democracy has any chance of survival.