The Supreme Court spent this term burying the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and allowing state legislatures to disrupt elections already well under way to gerrymander. They’ve ignored clear evidence of racism to allow a million of our neighbors with legal status to be fed to the deportation machine and protected billionaires from regular Americans trying to hold them accountable for giving them cancer. These are just the latest in a long, brutal line of Supreme Court justices ignoring their own precedents and the law and rewriting the Constitution to secure victories for right-wing reactionary agendas, corporate bottom lines and the interests of Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
This is a hijacked court, run by political actors to serve political goals, and it is time we treated them like it.
We need deep, structural reforms to fix the Supreme Court, including adding justices to rebalance it, term limits and a binding code of ethics with meaningful consequences. While none of that is in reach this Congress, we do have an opportunity to send an immediate message that Democrats will not stand idly by as the High Court acts as the judicial arm of the GOP and sends us back to the 19th Century.
Like the rest of the federal government, the Supreme Court’s appropriations request for Fiscal Year 2027 is currently under consideration. Having given this congressional majority a whole new set of options to consolidate their power, they’re now asking them for a 10% budget hike. Just like with any other part of the federal government, Democrats should be pushing back against funding for operations working against the best interest of the American people.
Please work to reduce the Supreme Court’s budget for the coming year, and vote against any version of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill that rubber stamps an increase instead.
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