In the news today: Another unsigned opinion from the Supreme Court guts the Civil Rights Act, this time with an order allowing Alabama to enact a racist gerrymander reducing Black American representation because—well, we don't know why. The court's conservatives didn't bother to explain it. Multiple justices have recently spoken up to insist that the court isn't partisan and that believing so will only reduce confidence in the court, but the biggest threat to the court is unpredictability of their own rulings. Lower courts can't base their own decisions on Supreme Court precedents because not even the Supreme Court is abiding by those precedents, and if the supposed "rule of law" changes based on who Clarence Thomas last had lunch with or the audience response to a no-journalists-allowed Federalist Society meeting, why should Americans believe our laws aren't being tweaked by a five-person "shadow" caucus on the court acting on strictly personal whims?
In other news, Donald Trump is accused of yet another large-scale crime for making off with boxes of protected government records; this, as we learn that the Trump team's wholesale destruction of records lasted from the beginning to the end of their crime-riddled "administration." Oh, and anyone looking for a bottom limit on how paranoid House Republicans will get in their conspiracy theories or how mean-spirited they'll get in their attempts to brush off nearly a million deaths? You've still got a long, long walk ahead of you.
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