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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Since the Citizens United decision of 2010, the justices have dismantled Americans' voices. The only solution is at the ballot box

Tue 12 May 2026

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Writing in 1943, the historian Henry Steele Commager delivered both a stern history lesson and a warning about the United States supreme court.

The court, he said, had never been a friend to US democracy, and it never would be. For anyone committed to the advancement of majority rule, he added, judicial review "is wrong in theory and dangerous in practice".

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"But the Voting Rights Act decision is only the latest in a string of decisions in which the conservative-dominated supreme court has used its version of constitutional interpretation to wage war on constitutional democracy.

Those decisions have opened the floodgates to the corrupting influence of money in politics, removed the federal government from the business of ensuring that states do not draw legislative districts in ways that disadvantage minority voters, and given the green light to partisan gerrymandering."

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