BTRTN: Dobbs, January 6 and How Conservatives Are Destroying All Three Branches of Government
In its review of the month of June, Born To Run The Numbers provides a comprehensive summary of the conservative wrecking ball that is poisoning American democracy.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2022/07/btrtn-dobbs-january-6-and-how.html
Excerpts: "June, 2022 was an utterly shocking month. In stark and vivid terms, conservative leadership demonstrated, in wielding their power, just how contemptuous they are of America’s three branches of government. There was the devastating mountain of sickening testimony presented at the January 6 committee hearings that depicted former president Donald Trump orchestrating a coup in his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss; the complete evisceration by the Supreme Court of Roe v Wade, which buried, in one stroke, not only Roe but the hallowed concepts of judicial restraint, stare decises and any shred of non-political objectivity that once typified the Court; and the bare fact that both efforts were essentially enabled by the machinations of the top conservative Congressional leaders, the shameless Mitch McConnell, in packing the Court with arch-conservatives in the Trump era using unscrupulous, if legal, tactics, and the spineless Kevin McCarthy, in backing Trump and his lies right on down the line, thereby lending official heft to Trump’s baseless charges, at a time when he might have helped to take Trump down for good...
"...the decision comes, of course, after all three of Trump’s SCOTUS appointees foreswore any interest in overturning Roe, with Justice Kavanaugh, just to name one, strenuously stressing, in both private Senate interviews and the public Senate confirmation hearings the sanctity of stare desisis, emphasizing how Roe was not just precedent, but precedent upon precedent, as it was reaffirmed by Casey. It is difficult to take any other position than that these paragons of the judiciary were simply lying under oath."
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