Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/05/minority-rule-review-senate-voter-suppression-ari-berman-review
Minority Rule review: rich history of America’s undemocratic democracy
From an absurd Senate where California and Wyoming are equal, to Republican voter suppression, Ari Berman covers it all
Short excerpt:
The national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones, Berman also offers a horrific description of the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent by modern-day oligarchs to make America even more undemocratic. In just six years, the Federalist Society raised an astonishing $580m “through a shadowy network of a dozen dark money nonprofit groups” to put its “preferred judges on the bench”. The society has gotten a huge bang for its buck – more than 500 judges appointed by both Bushes and 226 appointed by Donald Trump were endorsed by the Federalists.
The worst results of this hammerlock on judicial appointments are at the very top of the pyramid: “For the first time in US history, five of six conservative justices on the supreme court have been appointed by Republican presidents who initially lost the popular vote and confirmed by senators representing a minority of Americans.”>/i>
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