All of the United States’ most important governing institutions are failing at once. Congress, of course, has long been barely able to function. Every year, it , and the risk that it will trigger a debt ceiling breach that would is alarmingly large.
The Republican Party has atrophied into a cult of personality, centered around an authoritarian who literally . The Democratic Party, meanwhile, may be who is no longer capable of making the case against his imperious opponent. And then there’s the Supreme Court, perhaps the only branch of the United States government that is capable of speaking in complete sentences right now.
But the most recent Supreme Court term, which ended last week, makes one thing clear: Don’t confuse the Court’s relative eloquence for competence. SCOTUS, Explained The justices are , even though it’s been . They that sow confusion throughout the judiciary, then when those decisions lead to ridiculous and immoral outcomes.
They , and they can’t even be trusted to . In just the last few years, they’ve that law professors . If the justices did not wield such awesome power, and if lawyers who practice before them did not have to treat them with ritualized obsequiousness, most of the justices would be laughingstocks.
Few people this famous are so ostentatiously bad at their jobs. And yet, despite their incompetence, the justices continue to — even though they or expertise needed to address every policy question they’ve added to their own plate.
