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“Democrats are pompously running as the sole saviors and protectors of Democracy.” skrev Glenn Greenwald og tilføjede så “Now they have to explain why they spent months trying to get Trump banned from the ballot — when all polls show him leading — only for the Supreme Court to reject this effort unanimously.” Igen kom Greenwald altså med den bedste kommentar til en nyhed.

Den amerikanske Højesteret underkendte Colorados beslutning om, ikke at have Donald Trump på stemmesedlen til november. Med et udtryk af ren forfærdelse i øjnene sagde Colorados statssekretær “It will be up to the American voters to save our democracy.” De var da også rystede over det perspektiv på CNN, der havde foregøglet deres seere om, at den enkelte delstat kunne tage på sig selv at tolke Forfatningen og diskvalificere præsidentkandidater efter forgodtbefindende. Som Jonathan Turley pointerede

The Trump case exposed the erosion of legal coverage in the media. For millions of Americans, the cold reception of all of the justices to the novel theory under the 14th Amendment came as a surprise. Networks and newspapers have been featuring experts who assured the public that this theory was well-based and disqualification well-established. The only barrier, they insisted, was the blind partisanship of the six conservative justices on the Court.

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What was most troubling is the repeated attacks on the Court by legal experts who suggested that the only thing keeping Trump on the ballot was the bias of conservative justices.  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D. Md.) declared “This is their opportunity to behave like real Supreme Court justices.” It appears that both Justices Kagan and Jackson did not behave like “real Supreme Court justices” in oral argument by objecting to core aspects of this theory.

We will have to wait for the final opinion but most of us are predicting a reversal of Colorado and the possibility of a unanimous or near unanimous decision. The question is whether such a result will change how media outlets frame these disputes in the future.

Alan Dershowitz mente at Højesteretsdommer Amys kommentar til kendelsen den vigtigste, nemlig at den var afsagt i enighed.

Mens man endnu ventede på Højesteret bemærkede ovennævnte Turley om “the type of rhetoric that enrage viewers, particularly when they hear no alternative views.”

For years, liberal law professors and pundits have filled the media with dire predictions that the Supreme Court was about to carry out a long-planned “coup” and “power grab” — one even wrote that the court could be on the brink of establishing “one-party rule” in the United States. These commentators often ignore the countervailing cases where conservative justices voted against conservative causes and immediately return to these sensational claims whenever the Court is seen as a hinderance of their agenda, even in the simple act of granting review of a long-debated constitutional question.

Demokraterne i Repræsentanternes Hus gik straks i gang med at skrive et lovforslag, der vil gøre det muligt for dem, at forhindre Trump i at stille op. Så meget stoler de på deres foreløbige kandidat Joe Biden. Argumentet, som også Colorado brugte, er at Trump, indlysende, deltog i og opfordrede til en opstand på Capitol i Washington 20/1 2021. Ordet ‘indlysende’ er kritisk, da ikke en eneste amerikaner endnu er blevet dømt for at deltage i en opstand som følge af urolihederne ved Capitol. Faktisk er ikke en eneste blevet sigtet for at have deltaget i en opstand. En opstand uden opstandere. En ren medieskabt virkelighed, som mange hårdtarbejdende borgere tror på, fordi de endnu ikke har opdaget at pressen lyver for dem.

Trump havde også hæftet sig ved enigheden i Højesteret og mente at dette kunne lægge grunden til en mere forsonlig debat. Det er også min forhåbning, for som Greenwald pointerer i starten, så skal løgne-pressen nu lyve videre efter at være blevet ydmyget. Som Keith Olbermann må de inddraget stadig mere af det demokrati, de hævder at forsvare, i deres konspirationsteorier om, hvem der deltager i kupforsøget – nu også Højesteretsdommere udpeget af Demokraterne heriblandt en kvindelig neger.