For the last 50 years, since Richard Nixon’s presidency the Republican Party has sought to protect White Christian privilege because social research showed that America was going to become a majority-minority nation and the Republicans realized that White Christians would lose their protected status. By the late 1970s the strategy emerged to achieve this protection by doing two things. First, rewrite the country’s tax structure so that oligarchs could become the dominant financiers. Second, to take over the nation’s judicial system, particularly the Supreme Court, so that christofascists could determine how laws were interpreted no matter what the Congress did. To achieve their goals the christofascist on 23 April 1982 created the Federalist Society, and in 2010 they scored a major success with the Citizens United decision, which legalized bribery by the White rich, and the corporations they controlled. Now we have come to today’s decision which makes it clear that the Supreme Court is now a kind of unelected super-legislature. Six individuals, three of whom on the basis of evidence are grossly corrupt, one of whom is the product of a White supremacy, male dominant, christofascist cult, and at least two who have been the focus of serious charges of sexual predation now tell the 331 million Americans how their country will be run.
If you were counting on loan forgiveness — and Biden’s loan forgiveness program would have forgiven $10,000 worth of loans for most student borrowers, and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients — you will not receive it because of a decision the Court handed down on Friday, in a 6-3 vote entirely along party lines.