The US supreme court poses a real threat to Americans’ democracy

‘It’s time for fundamental reform of American democracy – including the supreme court – before the radical right steals that democracy away forever.’ Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

America is not just a country. It’s an idea. But whose idea is it anyway?

Peering through the mists of time, the current right-wingnut majority of the US supreme court believe they can divine the original ideas of some very dead white men.