to today, from the Illuminati (good guys) of the Enlightenment, to the John Birth Society fighting the U.N. and progressivism, to the Koch types' war on action against climate change, etc.
Btw, here's another in this same string of events, a summary in the WaPo opinion section of what SIX, not 5, RW extremists on the Supreme Court means. It's extremely bad.
The Rule of Six: A newly radicalized Supreme Court is poised to reshape the nation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/28/supreme-court-decisions-abortion-guns-religious-freedom-loom/
“The difference between six and five is exponential,”... With five justices to the chief’s right, they no longer need to compromise with the chief to win. ...
... There are three extremely conservative, extremely impatient justices who would go to extraordinary lengths to undo some of the most entrenched constitutional doctrine. But even the more patient justices are no moderates.
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the Supreme Court has no power to enforce its decisions other than its own moral and political standing. So justices — and especially chief justices, who consider themselves guardians of the institution — are understandably and appropriately wary of actions that would make it appear as though a mere shift in membership and partisan affiliation suffices to change the meaning of the Constitution.
All that helps explain some of the behavior of the court’s conservative majority over the past several years,... a contest of wills between the conservative justices who want to get on with it and those who might want to get to the same place but prefer to act more incrementally.
...Still, the majority’s boldness in Brnovich was a clear harbinger of more to come, and in other areas of the law. This much was clear in the smoking ruins of the Voting Rights Act: a court that could do this could do anything. ...
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