The Constitution Was Meant to Guard Against Oligarchy
It’s
by now a wearily familiar ritual: The case against a foundational right or
freedom—ballot access, uncorrupted elections, broadly affordable health care,
reproductive rights—gains a hearing before the Oz-like conclave of U.S. Supreme
Court justices. Gnat-straining procedural arguments—designed to distort or
downplay the actual stakes of the constitutional challenge in question—overtake
more considered and reasoned political deliberations…
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