Abolish the Supreme Court confronts one of the least democratic institutions in American life: nine unelected judges appointed for life, with the power to overturn the will of millions. From its earliest decisions, the Court has served to protect property, white supremacy, and empire. In Johnson v. M'Intosh in 1823, it wrote the doctrine of discovery into American law to justify the theft of Indigenous land. In Dred Scott in 1857, it declared that Black people could never be citizens. In Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, it gave its blessing to segregation, and in the Insular Cases it ruled that the people of Puerto Rico and other colonies did not share the rights of the nation that ruled them.

The Court has struck down labor protections in the name of free contract and upheld forced sterilization in Buck v. Bell. It approved the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans in Korematsu. In recent years it has opened elections to unlimited corporate money in Citizens United, gutted the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, and ended the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs. In 2024 it granted presidents broad immunity from prosecution for official acts. Rare victories such as Brown v. Board of Education came only after mass movements had forced the issue in the streets, and the Court has repeatedly moved to roll those gains back.

As the far right consolidates power, the Court has become one of its most effective instruments, entrenching minority rule and stripping away rights beyond the reach of any election. The phrase on this print, "the Supreme Court is a tool of fascism and must be abolished," is a call to stop treating the Court as a neutral referee and to see it as a weapon of the ruling class. Real democracy means that the people, not a handful of appointed judges, decide the laws they live under, and building it requires movements powerful enough to challenge the institutions that stand in the way.

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