The Supreme Court That Empowered Donald Trump Won’t Save Democracy—Only Voters Can
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In the weeks leading up to January 6, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States turned away a craven, Republican-led effort to overturn the results of the presidential election in states Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden, but the justices did not exactly shine as guardians of democracy. In a one-page order that was only a few sentences long, they simply rejected the gambit and called it a day. They did not, as high-powered Supreme Court litigator Tom Goldstein had suggested, rise to the occasion to confront “this extraordinary,...
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