US Supreme Court's Impact on American Democracy Criticized

The supreme court’s takedown of American democracy is complete | Austin Sarat

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

By Austin Sarat