Does anyone know which justices voted for and against? I can't find it.
It was 6-3 party line. 6 conservatives to 3 liberals.
If this isn't the final wake up call for Dem and dem-leading independent voters then I don't know what else is. Republicans have instilled the importance of the courts to their voters for decades. It took Trump's Presidency to happen for Dems to start waking the fukk up.
-The Supreme Court gave Bush the Presidency in 2000 on a party line vote. 5-4. Bush would then go on to appoint 2 Supreme Court Justices. That should have enraged Dem voters but they got over the decision quickly and Bush won re-election.
-The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act on a party line vote 5-4 in 2013. That should have led to Dem voters, at least black voters being energized for the midterms but Democrat officials couldn't message that. Republicans win control of the Senate in 2014 election and McConnell denies Obama a Supreme Court seat which would have flipped the court 5-4 advantage liberals.
-Hilary Clinton warned people in 2015 that one President can appoint up to 4 Supreme Court Justices in a term, as Nixon was able to appoint 4 Supreme Court Justices, Ford, who only was President 2.5 years appointed 1 Supreme Court Justice, Carter who served 4 years appointed
0. Reagan appointed 4 in his 8 years as President. You would have thought Hilary's warning and the open Supreme Court seat should have energized Dem voters, but it didn't because her party's voters were telling her to eat a dikk while the open seat energized Republican voters. Now Trump has appointed 3 young Conservatives Justices who will be on the court for the next 30 years along with 242 Federal Judges in just 4 years which is incredible and only roughly 100 less than what Bush and Obama appointed in 8 years. Some of those 242 were open seats that McConnell purposely stalled out in the Senate so that Obama couldn't fill them.
Conservatives have had control of the Supreme Court for like 70 years now. Because Thurgood Marshall was frustrated with the court's unwillingness to address real racial and Jim Crow related problems. And recently they've turned into partisan ideological hawks instead of real judicial philosophical legal minds.
Let's see what scorned white women do. If the Dems lose the 2024 election, which is highly likely as of now, Thomas, Alito or Roberts could step down to allow a Republican President to replace them with another young Justice who will sit on the court for 30 years.