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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 ...
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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 ...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, 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 danger that Commager noted was on full display on 29 April 2026, when the supreme court eviscerated section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. As the Department of Justice explains , section 2 “prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in one of the language minority groups … or procedure that results in the denial or abridgement of the right of
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