This republican supreme court--and they are first and foremost republicans, not justices--has run amock! They have betrayed their oaths of office and revealed themselves as the partisans they always have been, even before joining the court. Our government can't effectively function with a supreme court that has been crafted as an end-run around democracy and that continues to exercise power that it awarded itself and was never granted by the constitution. Who needs to win elections or coups when you can take over the government through soft insurrections like these?

Psst: You want to know who leaked the Supreme Court's Dobbs opinion? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/psst-you-want-to-know-who-leaked

#PartisanCaptureOfJudiciary
#SupremeCourtCorrupt
#GOPEndRunAroundDemocracy

"Even if uncontroverted evidence emerges that Alito leaked the Dobbs decision, there’s nothing the Supreme Court could do to discipline him. The Court has no code of conduct or rules of ethics. (Think Clarence Thomas.) Partly for this reason, public trust in the Supreme Court has been plummeting.

The last Congress introduced the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act which would, among other things, require the Court to adopt a binding code of conduct. With Republicans in control of the House, the current Congress is unlikely to do the same.

But the Court need not await Congress. If Chief Justice John Roberts doesn’t want to be remembered as the Chief who allowed the Court to drown in disrepute, he will take the lead in creating clear ethical rules that all Supreme Court justices will swear to abide."