Only 35% of Americans trust the US judicial system. This is catastrophic | David Daley

American confidence in the courts has hit a record low across party lines. This is worrying – if not surprising

The US supreme court has been hijacked by the extreme right and corrupted to its core.

American oligarchs bestow millions in gifts and largesse on rightwing justices. The court’s conservative supermajority hands down deeply unpopular decisions that take away long-settled rights, concentrate power for themselves and their friends and grease the electoral rails for their party.

David Daley is the author of the new book Antidemocratic: Inside the Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections as well as Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count

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