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In reply to the discussion: Thom Hartmann: Democratic Underground Readers are Wrong on SCOTUS [View all]meow2u3
(24,761 posts)especially Scalia and his sock puppet, Thomas.
The right-wing ideologues on the Supreme Court, IMO, have made themselves dictators for life, flouting the law and the Constitution in the process. Their wholesale corruption, on display for the entire world to see, has made a mockery of justice and the Supreme Court into the legal department of banksters and corporate malefactors.
What the Supreme Court, with their numerous and controversial 5-4 specials, seems to be doing is usurping the powers of the legislative and executive branches by nullifying progressive legislation by declaring it unconstitutional, for purely political reasons. These same rogues in robes are the first ones to denounce moderate and liberal judges as "judicial activists" when they uphold laws they don't like. The most egregious 5-4 specials have been Bush v. Gore, which installed Bush as "President"; and the most recent one, the Citizens United decision, which gave Big Money a license to bribe politicans and candidates for public office.
The only reason Scalia and/or Thomas haven't been impeached is that repukes, with their wholesale tribal mentality, have been protecting them and their power from the will of the people.