As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent last Friday, “The majority disdains restraint, and grasps for power” — and the justices are “making a laughing-stock” of long-standing judicial principles. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Back in law school I loved reading court opinions. At least I could convince myself there was some guiding principle that got majority opinions, for better or for worse. This court is the most cynical arm of government in the whole United States. “We’re all friends” isn’t helpful.
Generally agreed. And if she feels unusually strongly she shouldn’t be shy about speaking publicly at invited lectures and traditional forums in easier to parse language.
But I also think it’s fair that a functioning dem ought to have a functioning press to inform and educate citizens about this.
I’ve come around to the idea that a large portion of the news media might actually be far more harmful to democracy than it is beneficial. Speaking the truths of power rather than truth to power. And it’s been that way for awhile (see cop tense), and only gotten worse.
I agree that the media and journalism in the US at present is profoundly unequal to the task. But it is the natural locus of such communication, truth-telling and informed consent for the public.
The only way to get any correction (if that’s even possible, given the perverse incentives and hedge fund bros who own so many of these mediums) is to erode any confidence in them by attacking what they’re doing. The doubt shouldn’t all be coming from Covid conspiracy theorists and Russians.
