Institutionalizing conservative tyranny

Elections have consequences. We've been told that, but Isiah J. Poole has a graphic that makes it very, very clear what those consequences are. Go look at his article.

Here is his key point:

The conservative bloc on the [Supreme] court is a rogue band of ideological thugs who care less about strict constructionism and all of the other conservative legal buzzwords they use, but are all about furthering a conservative political agenda. [Snip]

The right understands the importance of a compliant judiciary in consolidating their political power, and they have made populating the judiciary with like-minded justices a cornerstone of their agenda. As a result, not only are conservatives on the precipice of having a decades-long hammerlock on the Supreme Court, but they have institutionalized a conservative tilt throughout the federal judiciary

The right-wing tilt of the Supreme Court is just the most obvious problem. Look at the graphic at the bottom of Poole's article. It shows the Reich-wing tilt of the entire federal judiciary.

These are lifetime appointments. It will take decades to bring back a judiciary that believes in the Rule of Law rather than the conservative ideology.