Yesterday the “Supreme” Court blocked a lower court ruling that conclusively demonstrated that the gerrymanding that took place in Texas was illegal. Naturally, the “court” took no pains to explain its ruling, or why it chose to depart from its own precedent to further enable the rise of fascism in this country. Read more at the link.
Not giving coherent reasons for their decisions is a plus from their point of view for a number of reasons. For instance, when they choose to reverse lower court opinions upholding California’s gerrymandering, which took place in response to that of Texas, they can once again avoid giving a coherent reason that is in any way consistent with previous case law.
Given the prior history of the Supreme Court (see, the Dred Scot decision authored by an outright racist (not that the current “justices” aren’t racist, but they’re not totally outright about it. ) it’s hard to believe that we now have the worst Supreme Court in history, but they’re right up there, contemporaneous with the worst president in history, which also takes some doing.
A few weeks ago I wrote what was meant to be a satirical post couched as a Supreme Court opinion. The fact is, the logic in that post is pretty much equivalent to the logic in recent Supreme Court decisions, and who knows, perhaps we will see the court draw a distinction between thoughts and speech.