The well established legal precedent of “LOL, Fuck You!”
America has always had wealthy people, but I don’t think we’ve ever had a generation of wealthy people absolutly determined to tear down the very American democracy that created all the wealth.
Alabama is ignoring a Supreme Court order to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in part because the money behind the conservative legal movement thinks that Bart O’Kavanaugh is open to ruling Section 2 unconstitutional if they provide a text case:
The Alabama Legislature’s open defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Allen v. Milligan ordering the creation of a second majority-Black district baffled and infuriated the federal three-judge panel that initially ordered the state to redraw its 2021 congressional map.
APR has now identified connections between Alabama officials who led the 2023 redistricting process — which disregarded the U.S. Supreme Court’s order — with far-right power broker Leonard Leo’s dark money network, described this past week by Politico as “a billion-dollar force that has helped remake the judiciary and overturn longstanding legal precedents on abortion, affirmative action and many other issues.”
Ah Yes! That portly rascal Leonard Leo! Another billionaire out to buy power with his money, believe he also acts as a funnel for others of the hyper rich club. As noted he was the force and enabler of the far right supreme court that will torment us for half a century. So called “Dark Money” now invades all aspect of politics, we have been stupid enough to allow the supreme court to flood American politics with the money of the rich, and quite possibly foreign money as well.