American confidence in the courts has hit a record low across party lines. This is worrying \u2013 if not surprising<\/p>\n
The US supreme court has been hijacked by the extreme right and corrupted to its core.<\/p>\n
American oligarchs bestow millions in gifts and largesse<\/a> on rightwing justices. The court\u2019s conservative supermajority hands down<\/a> deeply unpopular decisions that take away long-settled rights<\/a>, concentrate power<\/a> for themselves and their friends and grease the electoral rails<\/a> for their party.<\/p>\n David Daley<\/a> is the author of the new book Antidemocratic: Inside the Right\u2019s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections as well as Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn\u2019t Count<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" American confidence in the courts has hit a record low across party lines. This is worrying \u2013 if not surprising The US supreme court has been hijacked by the extreme right and corrupted to its core. American oligarchs bestow millions in gifts and largesse on rightwing justices. The court\u2019s conservative supermajority hands down deeply unpopular … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}