As a body, the US Catholic bishops worked feverishly to stack the court with the right-wing Catholic cabal now controlling it, and are very happy with what they have gotten, especially after Roe v. Wade was knocked down. I refuse to take anything seriously that almost any Catholic bishop in the US says now about democracy or human rights.

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There are, as I know well, strong currents of all of that in the Catholic church and courageous people moved by their Catholic faith to defend human rights and democracy.

But those people have not had the upper hand in US Catholicism under the current bishops, many of them appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

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How can any thinking and informed Catholic now do anything but laugh when Catholic theologians and pastoral leaders talk about how Catholic teaching upholds human rights, is positively disposed to democracy, respects religious freedom, advocates for the poor as the rich run roughshod over them?

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As a trained theologian whose master's and doctoral degrees are from a Catholic theological program and who spent much of his teaching career working in Catholic institutions, I am especially outraged that this destruction of democracy has been undertaken by a right-wing Catholic cabal on the court with close ties to the theocratic Opus Dei cult.

#SupremeCourt #democracy #VotingRights #CivilRights #JohnRoberts #Texas #gerrymandering #EconomicElites
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If anyone is left to write history after what we've going through now, I think historians of the future should assign the Roberts Supreme Court a singular and singularly maleficent role in the planned destruction of US democracy, a destruction willed by economic elites acting in collusion with reactionary right-wing Christians.

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"There are now signs that court is considering striking down or severely constraining the remaining pillar of the Voting Rights Act, a towering achievement of the civil rights movement that has protected the rights of minority voters since it was enacted 60 years ago last week."

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"Developments in recent weeks signaled that some members of the court think there is more work to be done in removing legal guardrails governing elections."

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"In the two decades Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has led the Supreme Court, the justices have reshaped American elections not just by letting state lawmakers like those in Texas draw voting maps warped by politics, but also by gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and amplifying the role of money in politics."

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@LibrarianRA also #JohnRoberts is a sadly topical name these days.

"But the lasting cost to our democracy is likely to be far greater than the redistricting skirmishes happening in prime time."

#gerrymandering #Texas #SupremeCourt #VotingRights #JohnRoberts
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"are directly related to the SCOTUS majority’s refusal to remedy an unconstitutional practice that threatens the integrity of democracy in our country."

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@wdlindsy So the #JohnRoberts #SCOTUS is conceding that #Canada is more competent in running a #democracy than the #UnitedStates ? https://www.vox.com/2014/4/15/5604284/us-elections-are-rigged-but-canada-knows-how-to-fix-them

“Trump knows he can’t win the upcoming mid-term elections, so he is trying to rig them. And the way he is trying to do it is to dismantle the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as we know it. He is trying, for example to try and dismantle Hispanic and African-American opportunity districts."

~ Rep. Greg Casar quoted by John Nicholls

#Texas #Republicans #gerrymandering #racism #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-gerrymandering-fight-trump/

"Having washed its hands of voter suppression like a modern-day Pontius Pilate, the Supreme Court relinquished control of congressional districting to a patchwork of inconsistent, flawed, and (sometimes) corrupt state legislatures. Chaos ensued."

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"Partisan gerrymandering is legal because the US Supreme Court declared in 2019 that it is too difficult for federal judges to ensure that congressional districts are fairly drawn. (A demonstrably false claim.)"

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Texas #Republicans #gerrymandering #racism #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/the-battle-for-2026-is-joined

"John Roberts has his fingers all over some of the absolute most anti-democratic things the Supreme Court has done, whether it is campaign finance decisions, political corruption decisions, immunity decisions, or law of democracy cases."

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #Trump #Constitution #RuleofLaw #corruption #authoritarianism #dictatorship
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