Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told The New Republic in an interview that Citizens United was the worst ruling by the modern Supreme Court.
“If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United,” she said. “I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. So that’s number one on my list.”
Second on her list was the portion of the Obamacare decision which placed restrictions the federal government’s ability to regulate interstate commerce. “I thought that the attempt of the Court to intrude on Congress’s domain in that area had stopped by the end of the 1930s,” she said. “Of course health care involves commerce.”
“Perhaps number three,” Ginsburg said, was the 2013 ruling to eliminate a centerpiece of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
All three decisions she referenced were decided by a split of 5 to 4, divided along ideological lines.
Yep!
CU decision
Paid for by the KochBros–
I’m going to genuinely miss her when she leaves.
Add Hobby Lobby to the list and you’ve got the 4 corners of the idiot universe the GOP/Teatrolls are being paid to create.
Totally agree…This SCOTUS is a disgrace.
Hobby Lobby is at least theoretically fixable by Congress, though in fact, the Religious Nutdom Pandering Triangulation Act of 1993 is probably about as untouchable as a barely sub-critical block of plutonium at this point.
A sad commentary on how firmly in the grip of hysterical right-wing Christianists our Congress remains.