Earlier today, I talked about how the Supreme Court is now just another phony, dishonest, Republican activist group. Exhibit A:
Senior Trump advisers are telling top GOP donors that a pair of upcoming Supreme Court decisions are likely to bolster Republicans in the 2026 midterms — and transform the party’s power to win elections for years.
What are the Supremes planning to do to help the GOP this cycle?
1. Louisiana v. Callais
The court — which has a 6-3 conservative supermajority — is set to decide whether to gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law that prohibits the dilution of minority voting power in congressional redistricting plans.
- The law has resulted in the creation of “majority-minority” districts that ensure voters in predominantly Black areas can be represented by minorities.
- For years, Republicans have sought to weaken the law, arguing that it’s federal overreach and unfairly creates Democrat-friendly districts.
- Democrats say the law prevents discrimination and ensures that minority voters are represented in Congress.
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The liberal-leaning Fair Fight Action has warned that overturning the law could result in Republicans dismantling as many as 19 Democrat-held majority-minority seats ahead of the midterms — “enough to cement one-party control of the U.S. House for at least a generation.”
- That, however, would require the court to rule quickly: Candidate filing deadlines in several states are coming up soon, and some already have passed.
- If the court overturns the law after next year’s filing deadlines, it would impact congressional line-drawing for the 2028 election.
2. National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) v. Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Oral arguments will be held Tuesday for this case, in which the justices will decide whether to eliminate a federal law that limits the amount of money big-money party committees can spend in direct coordination with favored candidates.
- Republicans argue the law violates the First Amendment and free political speech.
- Democrats say the law curtails corruption, and prevents major donors from flooding a candidate’s coffers with massive sums.
- The case is widely seen as the most consequential campaign finance-related dispute to land before the court since the landmark Citizens United decision in 2010 that lifted restrictions on political spending by corporations, unions and other groups.
Campaign finance experts predict Republicans would benefit more if the court overturns the law because the GOP relies heavily on billionaire mega-donors such as tech mogul Elon Musk, casino executive Miriam Adelson and hedge fund manager Ken Griffin.
I’m reminded that Musk spent a hundred million on a Supreme Court seat in Michigan and lost. Money isn’t everything. But it isn’t nothing either.
I expect that the DOJ is going to try to dismantle Act Blue for small donors before the election and I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see the Supremes step in with the shadow docket and rule that allowing ACT Blue to continue would cause Trump irreparable harm. That’s basically the argument they used to excuse the stopping of the vote count in Florida in Bush vs Gore. That certainly would give the GOP with its battalion of oligarchs an advantage.
But even with all that there is no reason that they would be a shoe-in for victory. Trump and the Republicans are extremely unpopular and many of the dipshits who just come out to vote like it’s American Idol whenever their favorite reality star is on the ballot are not likely to rouse themselves in this midterm. He’s never been all that successful in juicing turnout in off year elections.and the Democrats are champing at the bit. Still, it’s tragic that the Supreme’s are just a bunch of rank partisan hacks who don’t even try to hide that fact. Why should they? They have lifetime appointments and have learned that they can simply say “waddaya gonna do about?” Shamelessness … you know the drill.