The Republican Destruction of American Government Continues

Via the ever-valuable Daily Kos, this story from Bloomberg, illustrating the degree to which the Republican party has worked for decades to destroy any semblance of the government we have had in this country for two hundred odd years:

"Obama Health Law Seen Valid, Scholars Expect Rejection

The U.S. Supreme Court should uphold a law requiring most Americans to have health insurance if the justices follow legal precedent, according to 19 of 21 constitutional law professors who ventured an opinion on the most-anticipated ruling in years.

Only eight of them predicted the court would do so.

“The precedent makes this a very easy case,” said Christina Whitman, a University of Michigan law professor. “But the oral argument indicated that the more conservative justices are striving to find a way to strike down the mandate.”

Click through to the article if you'd like- you'll find similar views from a number of other legal scholars.

Let me make what is being said here clear:  A majority of legal scholars in this country believe that five Supreme court justices are about to make what they clearly know to be an incorrect, illegal decision.

Every time I hear a discussion of the current state of our Supreme Court, I see these five Republican justices referred to as Conservatives, or radicals.  It is important for us to give up the illusion that their gross misconduct, which gave us George W. Bush and the economic collapse and wars of aggression he caused, has one damned thing to do with Conservatism or any other ideology.  

These justices are not conservative, they are corrupt.  They exist, and were placed on the court, to serve the interests of the usual Republican beneficiaries, the super-rich and their corporations.  There is nothing conservative about throwing stare decisis out the window whenever it is convenient, about stealing from the States their right to cast their vote for President,; nothing conservative about ignoring the plain content of legislation.

These are truly lawless individuals, placed on the court after a decades-long Republican campaign of belligerence, bullying and whining.  This sleeper cell of five criminals have, with two decisions- Bush v. Gore and Citizens United- created the conditions necessary to utterly destroy democracy in the United States, and they are now set on creating a government that recognizes not one shred of responsibility to anyone who cannot pay the grossly inflated price tag to purchase a voice with the Republican party.  This is the end of the United States as we know it, if these five individuals and their backers are not stopped.  What will follow?  If you are interested, I suggest you read about Italy in the 1920's or Germany in the 1930's.