There’s just three weeks until our long national nightmare ends and a brand-new national nightmare begins! We continue to document the decimation of democracy, focusing on the SCOTUS hearings and the potential appointment of Amy Coney Barrett. We review how the judiciary is usually the last bulwark against autocracy but how in the US, the GOP has structured their autocratic coup around court-packing, putting the rights we rely on to fight autocracy in jeopardy.

This post was originally published on Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior.