Dear John,
This Supreme Court isn’t upholding the Constitution – it’s dismantling it.
The Court, now dominated by three Trump-appointed justices and two far-right extremists, is no longer an impartial interpreter of the Constitution. Instead, it has become an active participant in its erosion.
Rather than serving as a check on executive overreach, this Court is enabling Trump’s “unitary executive” power grab, unilaterally destroying agencies established by congressional legislation that the Constitution requires the president to “faithfully execute.”
By ruling that the president is presumptively immune from prosecution for any “official acts,” the Court has cleared the way for him to disregard the law while he purges career civil servants and reshapes the presidency into an authoritarian stronghold.
With the judiciary stacked in his favor, Trump’s return to power has been anything but routine. It has been a direct assault on democracy. The Court has emboldened Trump to gut agencies designed to protect workers and consumers, and to withhold billions in congressionally authorized funding.
While the Court’s recent decision blocking Trump’s freeze on $2 billion in USAID funds is a step in the right direction, it does not address the larger crisis. Once the final safeguard against tyranny, the Supreme Court has become one of Trump’s greatest supporters in the march toward totalitarianism.
Tell Congress: Rein in the Supreme Court now, before Trump’s takeover is complete.
The Supreme Court was designed to maintain the balance of power, not to put its heavy thumbs on the scale in favor of an all-powerful executive. Now, the conservative majority has weakened voting rights, given billionaires free rein to buy elections, and granted Trump near-absolute authority.
This is not justice; it is the judicial branch aiding and abetting a slow-motion coup.
For generations, the Supreme Court has been regarded as an institution of integrity, defending and protecting Americans’ rights and freedoms. Today, it has been reduced to a partisan tool, shielding a leader who openly defies the rule of law. Congress has the authority and the duty to stop this judicial assault on democracy.
Real solutions exist: imposing judicial ethics reforms to curb corruption, setting term limits to prevent lifetime ideological entrenchment, expanding the Court to restore balance, and reinforcing checks on executive power. But none of these changes will happen unless Congress finds the will to act.
Ultimately, this is bigger than Trump. It is a question of whether America remains a democracy or descends into unchecked autocracy. If we fail to act, we risk losing the very freedoms that define us as a nation.
Tell Congress: Hold the Supreme Court accountable now!
Thank you for standing up for democracy – the stakes have never been higher.
Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action
