Bitchelle

“The court is already an extremely strange and undemocratic institution. It is able to overturn any judicial decision by any other court. It is able to strike down laws passed by Congress. It is able to invalidate any action taken by the Executive Branch. And yet it consists of nine unelected graduates of Harvard and Yale, whose names most Americans don’t even know, appointed by an undemocratic body called the Senate, which is itself the product of an undemocratic and illegitimately-enacted document called the Constitution. Even when the Court does things we might like, the reasons it does them can be very strange, such as in the recent case expanding the rights of transgender people based on the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The decision was a good one, but it was only able to happen because conservative justice Neil Gorsuch decided to join the liberals. This means that the fate of trans rights in America rests on what is going on in the brain of an unelected guy named Neil.”