Wednesday, November 16, 2022
What in the World Happened to the Supreme Court? - The Atlantic
A political scientist would have been farsighted indeed to anticipate what happened to the Court from 2017 to 2020: that a president who lost the popular vote would manage to lock in a conservative supermajority with three appointments, all of them confirmed by the narrowest of margins—following the Republicans' abolition of the filibuster for Supreme Court confirmations—by senators from states that collectively contain less than half the country's population. No wonder, then, that theory no longer fits reality. Robert Dahl's reliance on "the basic patterns of behavior required for the operation of a democracy" is of little use when the patterns have been shattered and democracy itself seems so fragile...
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