The State of U.S. Democracy and its Supreme Court

Progressives need to raise the real issue related to the Harvard affirmative action and Texas’ reproductive rights cases to be decided upon by the Supreme Court. The real issue is how is it possible that 6 of the 9 Supreme Court justices are right-wing Republicans in a nation in which the Republicans have won only one presidential election by popular vote in the last thirty years. Similarly, how is it possible that one congressman, Joe Manchin, gets to veto all-important socio-economic legislation when his California colleagues, who support that legislation, represent 23 times more people but their vote has the same weight in congress. Joe Biden’s “Summit for Democracy,” in which such outstanding champions of democracy as Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi and Poland’s Andrzej Duda will have a voice, ought to take up those types of issues.