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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,112 posts)
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 01:26 AM Jun 2022

The Supreme Court declares war on modern America

By Jennifer Rubin

It gives me no joy to say that my prediction in April that the Supreme Court was set to launch a war on modern America — on its social and legal progress over decades — was accurate. In a tone more reminiscent of a MAGA rally than a high court, the majority Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization opinion overturning the right to abortion drips with disdain for women’s concerns about personal autonomy and for the principle of stare decisis.

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The right-wing court wants to lock 21st-century America into the Founders’ world or, at the latest, the late 19th century, conveniently skipping past the parts of history that disfavor its cramped view of individual rights. Women, minorities, gay people and others once had little political, economic or social power. And so they will again, if the court gets its way.

Look carefully at the court’s language hopscotching through history. “Until the latter part of the 20th century, such a right [to abortion] was entirely unknown in American law,” the opinion proclaims. The past 50 years when Roe v. Wade followed a line of previous cases concerning personal autonomy (“privacy”) don’t count, it seems.

The court also leaps past the part of American history when abortion was generally legal up to “quickening.” (Oops, the majority gave it away: “We begin with the common law, under which abortion was a crime at least after ‘quickening’ — i.e., the first felt movement of the fetus in the womb, which usually occurs between the 16th and 18th week of pregnancy.” After quickening, even in the majority’s telling.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/26/supreme-court-attack-midterms/

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The Supreme Court declares war on modern America (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 OP
Yes, utter distain for personal autonomy. Tumbulu Jun 2022 #1
They are basically saying you have no right to your own body Farmer-Rick Jun 2022 #2
Do you think President Biden YoshidaYui Jun 2022 #3
Biden has said Quanto Magnus Jun 2022 #4
They fucking hate us YoshidaYui Jun 2022 #6
CT is helping out known insurrectionist !!! his ol' lady ! cloudboy07 Jun 2022 #5
And he best be careful of inter-racial marriage cases Evolve Dammit Jun 2022 #7
least we forget, Icanthinkformyself Jun 2022 #8
WEEKEND NEWS homegirl Jun 2022 #9

Tumbulu

(6,267 posts)
1. Yes, utter distain for personal autonomy.
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 01:43 AM
Jun 2022

Have you seen this part of the decision?

“These attempts to justify abortion through appeals to a broader right to autonomy and to define one’s “concept of existence” prove too much. Casey, 505 U. S., at 851. Those criteria, at a high level of generality, could license funda- mental rights to illicit drug use, prostitution, and the like. See Compassion in Dying v. Washington, 85 F. 3d 1440, 1444 (CA9 1996) (O’Scannlain, J., dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc). None of these rights has any claim to being deeply rooted in history. Id., at 1440, 1445.”

Farmer-Rick

(10,072 posts)
2. They are basically saying you have no right to your own body
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 11:04 AM
Jun 2022

This applies to men too. If some men think they can avoid the gun the Supremely Religious Court is aiming at the American people, they better think again. Slavery is not going to just stay in prison and on women.

If states can force women to give birth, they can force men to give up an organ to a rich man. Then it's a short jump to forced labor. That's the gun that will destroy American democracy.

YoshidaYui

(41,765 posts)
3. Do you think President Biden
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 12:23 PM
Jun 2022

Might put more people on the court? Or is that a bad idea because in the Republicans will stack the court again if they get a chance. Hell they probably will disband the supreme Court and make Trump emperor King.

Quanto Magnus

(874 posts)
4. Biden has said
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 02:12 PM
Jun 2022

that he does not agree with adding more justices to the SC

Also, saying that Republicans 'might' do it in the future as a response to Biden adding justices, is.... not worth considering IMO

They have already STACKED the court through their confirmation games. If anything adding justices would be in response to the Republicans already playing games with court appointees.

And quite frankly, I could see them doing it anyway if they feel it would 'own the Libs'

YoshidaYui

(41,765 posts)
6. They fucking hate us
Mon Jun 27, 2022, 02:41 PM
Jun 2022

that much is clear. fuck them! We will fight back in other ways, like put a ton of them on trial for shit they did during the insurrection.

Icanthinkformyself

(212 posts)
8. least we forget,
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 09:42 AM
Jun 2022

it is the conservative politics of Rubin and the like that gave us this SCOTUS. I welcome her criticism of Republicans. But, she can keep her conservatism. It's what leads to fascism. And, we have enough of that to deal with right now. She and the other NTs, LPs and such will have my respect when they renounce conservative policies and politics. Changing ones registration to Democratic is a first step to recovery. It's like the junkie who sees the light. Now they need to take the rest of those steps.

homegirl

(1,419 posts)
9. WEEKEND NEWS
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 10:06 AM
Jun 2022

Right-wing insistence Friday night that the weekend would be characterized by “rage” as pro-choice supporters turned violent seemed designed to draw false equivalence between those who stormed the Capitol to overturn the election and those angry at the Supreme Court’s refusal to recognize a constitutional right that the American people have enjoyed for half a century—and, perhaps, to justify brutality to silence those protests. In fact, aside from sporadic violence against the protesters rather than from them, the protests were peaceful.

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