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It's not inherently bad that the supreme court is a major driver of change. The court legalised interracial marriage and ended segregation when politicians were too bigoted or cowardly to do it. They protected medical privacy. They struck down bans on marriage equality.

The problem with them now is not that they're taking substantive action, but rather what this action is actually doing.

If we're going to survive this era, we need to divest ourselves of the fetishisation of form. The content matters.

The primacy of process was a charade used to build coalitions across conflicting values during a time of relative calm. That period is over and the utility of stressing process is at an end. Fighting about court overreach is hypocritical because it's obviously not the problem - it wasn't in the 60's and it's not now. The problem is a corrupt court. The solution is either a major ethics investigation or, copy some hard nosed 20th century tactics and threaten to balloon the court up to as many members as it takes to get a left majority again. This is how anti-trust legislation quit getting struck down. Threaten the fucking court like past left presidents did.

Honestly, fuck the process. Their bad rulings are coming with a body count - people dying from being unable to terminate life-threatening pregnancies, everybody else at the sharp end of things and this is minor compared to people already dying from the fucking climate. We're all at risk - if not from flood or fire or drought, then food shortage.