A stolen Supreme Court sells democracy to the highest bidder

By James J. Devine

The Supreme Court, now little more than a corporate subsidiary with a gavel, has spent this term completing its mission: the legalized dismantling of democracy.

One ruling at a time, this contrived conservative majority—forged through stolen seats and perjured testimony—has turned the law into a weapon against the people, ensuring that power remains with the wealthy, the connected, the ruthless.

Elections are now auctions. Liberty is a commodity. And the Supreme Court itself has become the most reliable enforcer of oligarchy this country has ever seen.

Let us speak plainly about the theft that made this possible. When Justice Scalia died in 2016, Republicans—with naked hypocrisy—refused to even consider President Obama’s nominee, stealing a seat that was never theirs to withhold.

Then came the parade of perjurers: Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett—each swearing under oath that they respected precedent, that they saw no agenda to overturn Roe, that they were mere umpires calling balls and strikes.

They lied. They knew they lied. And now, with a 6-3 majority built on bad faith, they are methodically strangling the rights of the many to serve the interests of the few.

Look at what they have done.

They took an axe to the Voting Rights Act, gutting the very protections that once made democracy possible for Black Americans in the South.

They opened the floodgates to corporate cash, ensuring that elections would be won not by ideas, but by the deepest pockets.

And now, with a grotesque new case looming, they prepare to strike the final blow—to declare, once and for all, that states may rig elections with impunity, that politicians may choose their voters rather than the other way around.

Texas offers the blueprint. There, Republicans plot to carve the state into districts so warped by partisan malice that they defy geometry itself.

And why shouldn’t they? The Supreme Court has already blessed this corruption, ruling in 2019 that federal courts have no business stopping even the most brazen gerrymanders.

The message is clear: Power belongs to those who seize it.

This is not law. This is the death rattle of democracy.

The Warren Court understood that equality was the foundation of this republic—that every citizen’s vote must carry equal weight, that the law must protect the weak from the strong.

The Roberts Court’s legacy is the opposite: a country where money drowns out voices, where districts are drawn in backrooms, where the powerful grow immune to accountability.

And immunity is the goal. Not just for corporations, not just for politicians—but for the government itself.

A government that silences the people, that rigs the game, and refuses even the pretense of fairness, does not govern with consent. It rules by force.

History whispers the same warning every time: When the law becomes a tool of oppression, when the courts serve the powerful instead of justice, the people will not endure it forever.

The Roberts Court has made its choice.

It stands with the oppressors, the liars, the thieves.

The only question left is how long the American people will let them get away with it.