Comment on SCOTUS Majority Now Confirmed By Senators Where GOP Represented Fewer Americans Than Dems

Stephen Wolf, Crooks and Liars
Tue, 10/27/2020 - 3:49am

SCOTUS Majority Now Confirmed By Senators Where GOP Represented Fewer Americans Than Dems

On Monday, Senate Republicans confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court and in doing so have officially brought minority rule to the highest court in the land: Five of the six conservative justices—a majority of the Supreme Court—have been confirmed by senates with Republican majorities that represented fewer Americans than their corresponding Democratic minorities. Further underscoring this development, three of those five justices—Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh—were appointed by a president who lost the popular vote, while the other two—John Roberts and Samuel Alito—by a president who likewise lost the popular vote for his initial term and might never have become president without that Electoral College victory.

 

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