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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jul 4, 2022, 08:28 PM Jul 2022

The Supreme Court fires broadside against the Constitution

In its decisions to strike down the constitutional right to abortion and New York City’s concealed firearms ban, the Supreme Court has let loose a 21st century volley amid an ongoing political, cultural and social uncivil war not seen since the firing on Fort Sumter in 1861.

These decisions have now created a “doctrine of selective inference” in the court’s interpretation of the law. This raised a judicial double standard that, ironically, will make the underlying reasoning of Dred Scott (1857) and Plessey v. Ferguson (1896) relevant again. And one consequence of returning the legality of abortion to the states is that it may well metastasize into a condition of permanent legal strife.

Proponents and opponents of these decisions should be very worried given the divisive, disruptive and contradictory consequences that will arise from these cases. About abortion and concealed carry, nowhere in the Constitution are abortion or self-defense as a reason for carrying a concealed weapon explicitly stated or enumerated.

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The court struck down Roe, asserting there was no inferred right in the Constitution to abortion. But stunningly, the court contradictorily struck down the New York law interpreting the 2nd Amendment as making concealed carry legal. Hence, a doctrine of selective inference in which ideology and politics and not the law seems to take precedence.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-supreme-court-fires-broadside-against-the-constitution/ar-AAZbPI2

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The Supreme Court fires broadside against the Constitution (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2022 OP
Well written article. Thanks for posting it. SharonClark Jul 2022 #1
K&R 2naSalit Jul 2022 #2
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