Eugene Robinson: 'It's not a court. It's a junta.'

[speak easy]

This isn’t your country anymore. You are now governed by a secretive and unaccountable junta in long black robes, and there are going to be some changes around here.

Our de facto rulers are Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. usually joining in. Be sure to remember their names, because they are now large and in charge — and because they envision a United States far different from the nation we’re accustomed to.

I describe them with a term more commonly used for Latin American military regimes because, well, that’s what it feels like.

They want a country where women, once again, are at best second-class citizens. Their decision Friday to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that protected the constitutional right to abortion means that women, unlike men, no longer have dominion over their own bodies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/27/supreme-court-roe-abortion-christians/

In Dobbs, Justice Thomas talked about striking down the doctrine of substantive due process. The core of Griswold is a Constitutional Right to privacy., Striking that out would facilitate the sort of enforcement a ban on abortion requires, and open the door more widely for the Republic's devolution into totalitarianism.

[lindysalsagal]

1. Unable to reply for fear of being ejected.

I wish I could agree with you but I don't dare.

[XanaDUer2]

3. Why do you keep posting that?

Ejected from what?

[dalton99a]

2. Our judiciary has been hijacked by radical extremists with lifetime appointments

[LogicFirst]

7. 6 Catholics want an all Catholic country.

[Icanthinkformyself]

4. apathy

is expensive and brings many things unwanted that must be paid for in one way or another, including by those not apathetic. And, here we are.

[XanaDUer2]

5. Kick nt

[mountain grammy]

6. Six religious fanatics are ruling America.

[The Bopper]

8. Freedumb?

Multiple men filed lawsuits because they were told to wear a mask, rubbing their whiskers wrong. Yet a raped woman must give birth to her rapist baby. You can’t even place those 2 things in the same universe, yet here we are.