Congressional Democrats have pushed for ethics reform legislation, efforts publicly rejected by Samuel Alito

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

The Supreme Court is completely decoupled from the American population. What do you expect to happen? It's a place where career justices can go to play ideology while normal people are suffering.

The East Coast elite is very rich and (by extension) conservative. They are never going to vote for things that actually help the American populace.

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    Joe who supports the Patriots and works on a lobster boat half the year isn't going to the Supreme Court. Bill who's a theatre student at NYU isn't going to the Supreme Court. The people that are going to the Supreme Court are predominantly white men from highly privileged backgrounds.

    Coincidentally, this forms the three metrics that correlate with conservative lean. Wealthier people lean conservative, white people lean conservative, and men lean conservative. In fact, even in the notoriously liberal New York Metro, white people are mixed https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/religious-landscape-study/compare/party-affiliation/by/racial-and-ethnic-composition/among/metro-area/new-york-city-metro-area/.

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