The Hypocrisy of Rightwing Judges
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against states' rights, forcing Trump back on the Colorado ballot on the VERY SAME DAY that Trump's election interference trial was scheduled to start, but instead has been indefinitely delayed by the same Court.
Evangelical Christians and rightwing politicians have made appointing ultra-conservative judges the tip of the spear in their culture war against American multicultural democracy. Resulting in state and federal judges who routinely ignore the law and decades of precedent in order to make politically motivated rulings that attack our fundamental constitutional and legal protections. Today, the hypocrisy of the Supreme Court is further exposed when they fast tracked overturning Colorado's ruling that Trump violated the Insurrection Act, but indefinitely delayed his federal criminal prosecution for the very same crime.
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