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empedocles

(15,751 posts)
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 02:16 PM Jun 2022

Nasty, fast moving, very political, trumper wing of scotus

. . . “The decisions this week must be understood as a conservative majority favoring conservative political ideology: requiring aid for religious instruction, greatly expanding gun rights, ending abortion rights,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law.

“It is not about judicial philosophy or constitutional interpretation,” he said. “It is about conservatives moving constitutional law very far and very fast in a very conservative direction.”



https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3536687-roe-demise-shows-supreme-court-conservatives-wants-to-move-very-far-and-very-fast

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Nasty, fast moving, very political, trumper wing of scotus (Original Post) empedocles Jun 2022 OP
They are NOT Conservative! leftieNanner Jun 2022 #1
Exactly. LoisB Jun 2022 #2
They are not conservatives, they are rabid reactionaries. blm Jun 2022 #3
And I guarantee you that if my school system has to support religious institutions (and indirectly, SWBTATTReg Jun 2022 #4
They have already started the PR push. The execrable EWTN (radtrad Catholic) network... keep_left Jun 2022 #5

SWBTATTReg

(22,124 posts)
4. And I guarantee you that if my school system has to support religious institutions (and indirectly,
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 02:52 PM
Jun 2022

my property taxes), I will demand that my taxes go to the public schools and NOT the religious schools. I don't have any desire to support these types of schools and their curriculums.

keep_left

(1,783 posts)
5. They have already started the PR push. The execrable EWTN (radtrad Catholic) network...
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 03:16 PM
Jun 2022

...has begun a full-court press on school vouchers. All the "think" tank assholes, retrograde archbishops like Timothy Dolan, etc. were featured on their program In Depth, which served as an hour-long propaganda piece on school "choice".

The next step will be gay rights; they haven't been screaming about that for a while, probably because they were slaving like stevedores covering the repeal of Roe. Contraception is already under attack--the radtrads have a favorite thought-terminating cliché: the "contraceptive mentality", whatever that is.

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