Sally Kohn: We have a constitutional stem that allows corporate power to operate nationally while fracturing people power through an incredibly undemocratic electoral process. She says it's important to highlight how deeply cynical and internally inconsistent the rights critique of the supreme court is. Kohn: They're defending rights of corporations, striking down Rights of most communities ta that find themselves oppressed.
A timely interview from the archives: legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal court veneration, and other big questions on the law and politics facing the left.
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