TOP NEWS: Naomi Klein Warns US Is in the Midst of a 'Shock-and-Awe Judicial Coup'

July 01, 2022

Top News

Naomi Klein: The US Is in the Midst of a 'Shock-and-Awe Judicial Coup' "The rolling judicial coup coming from this court is by no means over," warned the author of "The Shock Doctrine." by Jake Johnson 'Payoff for 40 Years of Dark Money': Supreme Court Delivers for Corporate America "It was the conservative court's larger agenda to gut the regulatory state and decimate executive powers to protect Americans' health and safety," warned one expert. by Jake Johnson Federal Abortion Ban Desired by GOP Would Increase Maternal Deaths by 24%: Study "Pregnancy shouldn't kill people—in fact, in other rich countries it very rarely does," said the lead author of the new analysis. by Jake Johnson

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• 'Blatantly Partisan': NC Green Party Candidate Slams State Dems for Denying Ballot Petition • 'We Will Fight! We Will Win!': Nearly 200 Abortion Rights Defenders Arrested in DC • Ocasio-Cortez Says US 'Witnessing a Judicial Coup in Process' • 'Indefensible': Outrage as New Reporting Shines Light on Biden Deal With McConnell • Assange Makes Final Appeal Against US Extradition • NARAL Pro-Choice Endorses Fetterman—Who Vows to End Senate Filibuster to Protect Abortion Rights • Texas Panel Denounced Over Attempt to Rebrand Slavery as 'Involuntary Relocation'

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Opinion

Beware: The Supreme Court Is Laying Groundwork to Pre-Rig the 2024 Election This scenario isn't just plausible: it’s probable. GOP-controlled states are already changing their state laws to allow for it, regardless of how their people vote. by Thom Hartmann Right-Wing Supreme Court Imperils Democratic Self-Governance A powerful and reactionary judiciary at work alongside a dysfunctional Congress and hamstrung bureaucracy is a recipe for disaster. by Jenny Breen Supreme Court's Attack on Regulatory State Means Senate Filibuster Must Go For the Supreme Court to give itself the authority to say whether Congress intended to delegate this much regulatory authority to the EPA is a truly radical act—more radical than any Supreme Court in modern history. by Robert Reich

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Let's Face It. We Just Had a Judicial Coup In the United States of America.

 

Here's my quick analysis of the abortion issue: we need to take a step back and see the big picture. Our Supreme Court as an institution is no longer a judicial body; it is a political body that is unelected and whose charge is to carry out an extreme-right agenda that primarily benefits the fossil fuel industry, corporate power, and other anti-democratic forces that are undermining fair elections and personal freedom. Rather than rule on law, the justices are imposing laws that run counter to the wishes of the majority on almost every major issue: reproductive rights, gun rights, climate, consumer rights, Indian adoption laws. I'll add that into this environment Chevron gets away with a private corporate prosecution of me that results in a 3-year detention for holding it accountable for massive pollution in the Amazon. Six right-wing judges on the Supreme Court are now trying to dismantle the "administrative state" which is simply code for blocking all attempts by our executive branch agencies to carry out the will of Congress on climate and other major consumer issues.  It feels like a judicial coup. Industry ⁠— via an array of groups like the Federalist Society, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the Koch Brothers funding network ⁠— are controlling our society for their narrow benefit via six judges: Gorsuch, Roberts, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett, Thomas, and Alito. Three of them were appointed by Donald Trump after he lost a national election on the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. Our society has become deeply undemocratic. The original purpose of the Supreme Court was to protect the people from the government. The current purpose of the Supreme Court is to protect corporate and governmental power from the people. Stop kidding yourself that the Supreme Court is a judicial body. It is not.  Six unelected judges are largely controlling the freedom and rights of over 300 million people. This is not good for the rule of law. It is not good for democracy. It is not good for the vast majority of people in the US. The problem of the US Supreme Court must be addressed or we will lose our democracy and our planet will continue to burn. In solidarity,   Steven Donziger  Note: This message was originally sent to the subscribers of Donziger On Justice on Substack. If you are interested in receiving similar content in the future, please consider subscribing today. Click here to subscribe.