It's not a court. It's a junta.

[sinkingfeeling]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/27/supreme-court-roe-abortion-christians/

This isn’t your country anymore. You are now governed by a secretive and unaccountable junta in long black robes, and there are going to be some changes around here.

Our de facto rulers are Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. usually joining in. Be sure to remember their names, because they are now large and in charge — and because they envision a United States far different from the nation we’re accustomed to.


But this patchwork is just temporary, I fear. The junta clearly wants to transform the whole country to suit its reactionary vision. And its members, with lifetime appointments, are young enough to complete the job.

There is one way, and only one way, to keep this dystopia from being fully realized: Elect presidents, members of Congress, governors and state legislators who will use all their powers — which together are greater than the junta’s — to bend the arc of our moral universe back toward justice.

Our votes are the only weapons we have. Either we use them or we lose the future.

[madaboutharry]

1. The Supreme Junta.

Eugene Robinson always puts it into words.

[czarjak]

5. Correct words. Like when he said "we're going to be stuck with W's intentional idiocy"...

For years. Here we are.

[Hassler]

2. We started as a rebellion against a king. Now we have a king by

Committee.

[czarjak]

3. Illegitimate presidents nominate illegitimate judges. Period.

[dalton99a]

4. America's Ayatollahs:

[calimary]

12. There they are.

That’s not a bad way to describe, identify, and refer to them. Not bad at all!

[Ford_Prefect]

6. Given how far and deep the investigations have gone it seems possible, even likely, that one

or more of the presiding ayatollahs may be due for a little deferred justice regarding their adjustments of veracity under oath.

[rubbersole]

9. At the very least.

[Nululu]

7. Religious fanatics hellbent on instituting white nationalism

A religious state that will eventually imprison anyone not White enough
Christian enough
Male enough

[calimary]

14. Whatever happened to the separation of church and state?

Are we over that, now?

[Nululu]

15. SCOTUS bulldozed it.

[Nevilledog]

8. Star Chamber.... Especially with their Shadow Docket.

[Initech]

10. This is an America run by Fox News in conjunction with America's megachurch pastors.

Strap in, this is going to be one incredibly bumpy ride on our way to fascist totalitarianism, whether we want it or not.

[Hekate]

11. The author is Eugene Robinson, and I fear he is right

[Evolve Dammit]

13. He nails it.