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Democrats have been attacking the Supreme Court for years, accusing it of undermining democracy. But "the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court operate in about as pure a democracy as one will find," writes Merrill Matthews. |
"All nine justices, appointed by elected presidents and confirmed by elected senators, are equal," explains Matthews, a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation. "All the justices have one vote regardless of their age, tenure or expertise in a particular matter before the body." Progressives have taken aim at the court's ideological make-up, often characterizing it as "far-right" or "extremely rightwing" But Matthews compares a study of the justices' ideology with a Gallup survey of the public's political leanings and concludes the current court is "actually a fairly good representation of the country as a whole." So why has the court been on the receiving end of so many attacks, most recently from President Biden, who claimed that "this is not a normal court"? "The left's constant anti-court barrage is intended to undermine public support for the judicial branch so that it will be easier to pack the court or do something else that would drastically alter its current makeup." But this strategy could have effects beyond the court, says Matthews. "Democratic efforts to undermine, delegitimize and restructure the Supreme Court…only fuel GOP suspicions that the Democrats will also try to undermine elections." "After all," writes Matthews, "if Democrats are willing to undermine the Supreme Court just because they don't like the justices' decisions, is it really that unreasonable to think they might undermine elections if they don't like the voters' decisions?" Read the op-ed at TheHill.com. |
Welcome to The Hill's Views & Opinions newsletter, it's Friday, July 7. I'm Daniel Allott, bringing together a collection of key opinion pieces published from a wide range of voices. |
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By Nolan Rappaport, immigration law expert |
Migrants without visas or other entry documents can install the CBP One app on their mobile phones and use it to schedule an appointment to present themselves at specified Southwest Border ports of entry. A recent media report shows that 99 percent of the migrants who had these appointments were exempted from Title 42 expulsion and released into the U.S. interior. |
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By Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College |
The contest over the Supreme Court is teed up. Like FDR, Biden should remind Americans what is at stake when the court sets itself up against the "modern conditions" of democracy and rolls back racial progress, protects those who are hostile to gay rights and blocks much-needed financial relief for millions of young Americans. |
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By Lawrence Haas, senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council |
Biden's refusal to invite Netanyahu to the White House remains mystifying. What can it be about? It can't be about human rights, because Israeli human rights violations pale in comparison to those of the autocrats with whom Biden has already met. |
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By Michael Starr Hopkins, founding partner at Northern Starr Strategies |
"Why are you running for president?" is the ultimate question that every candidate should ask themselves. Far too few do. Far too many run for the most selfish of all reasons, not to lose. The result of which is the desire to win at all costs. |
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