The corrupt US Supreme Court

By Michael de Adder 

It ain't racism--it's redistricting

 By David Horsey

You have your dream, we have ours

By Steve Sack 

Martin Luther King Jr.

Raising the flag

 By Nick Anderson, hat tip to Dr Art Garfunky

The Confederacy is being revived, and only cartoonists are covering it.

@andertoon.bsky.social

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

reDRAW, reDRAW, reDRAW

By Jonathan Brown 

He's growing more dangerous

By Jonathan Brown 

The Supreme Court is useless

 From Nick Anderson

The Supreme Court aided this dictator by ruling that he could break the law. 

How the Republican Party has moved right

Hat tip to Dan Neuman

Notice how in the 60s and 70s, there was some overlap in the middle.  Bipartisan policy was possible.  Compromise was possible.  Now, the Republicans have moved increasingly to the Right (and the last data point in the graphic is 2017--where are they now?), compromise is impossible.

Why has this happened?

• Increasing inequality--there is no middle ground any more.  There are the super rich and the rest, and the Republicans go on winning because of gerrymandering and suppressing the vote.  And the super rich buy the elections, as Musk did with the presidential election.
• The first-past-the post voting system combined with gerrymandering.  Since the seat won in a gerrymandered electorate is a foregone conclusion, the relevant race comes to be the primary.  And only 10% of the population vote in primaries--the "rusted-on", extremist, die-hard voters.  The Tea Party and MAGA lunatics.
• A long-term plan by far-right "stink tanks" to push their own agenda, which has led to the packing of the Supreme Court, and to such judicial decisions as Citizens United, which allowed unlimited election funding by corporations.
• The steady shift of the Overton Window to the Right.

And what is the solution?  A first step: replace first-past-the-post with ranked-choice voting (preferential voting).  A second step: tax the rich.  

Otherwise, American democracy is finished.

The emperor's clothes

 By Michael de Adder

The Trump supreme court

 Front page of The New Yorker  The USA is turning into a banana republic, with Donald Trump as dictator.

Fifth Avenue

 By Bill Bramhall

No one is above the law

 By Mike Luckovich

MAGA Supreme Court rules Trump can't be removed from the ballot

 The US Supreme Court, by this decision, loses all credibility.  The US is turning into a failed state.

Trump was wrongly removed from Colorado ballot, US supreme court rules

Cartoon by Dave Granlund

Dominoes

By  Michael de Adder

Roe is settled law

By Pat Bagley 

Public support for the US Supreme Court falls to record low

 From a tweet by Jake Truscott

Politicising the Supreme Court has  reduced its legitimacy.  

Living with outcomes you don't like

 By Pat Bagley