The Supreme Court

American democracy is beset with multiple afflictions. I think the most distressing of them is the degradation of the Supreme Court, which it has exhibited on numerous occasions in recent years, most conspicuously and blatantly in freezing the trial of Trump for trying to overthrow the 2020 presidential elections and for his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Maintaining a democracy requires a certain average degree of good faith on the part of the judiciary, a standard that six of the nine Supreme Court Justices haven’t met.