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Baitball Blogger's JournalWhat Republicans won't tell you aloud, but it's their Achille's Heel.
It's this: They don't like other people's children. Specifically, they don't want to spend a penny of their money on the public services and infra-structure required to raise a new generation of children. And local red governments don't want young adults in their cities, either, because of the fear in the rise of juvenile crime.
The only ones who want to build public schools are the good buddy developers who will receive federal and state money to make it worth their time. It's about the government money. It always is to Republicans. So, in Florida we watch helplessly as public school teachers and public school programs get throttled. It's constant harassment attacking them with mean-spirited Republican-style regulation. It's obvious that the goal is to end public school, so Tallahassee politicians can send tax dollars to private religious schools. They're on a destroy mission and aren't thinking of the countless number of young children raised in struggling homes, who will drop out of school, because they can't learn in a hostile school environment.
And, the best for last. That pesky juvenile crime rate that is associated with the young. That's a real boogey man in the suburbs. There is nothing worse to a Republican white suburban woman, than the fear of a young black person traipsing in the neighborhood, day or night. It's such a fear in the suburbs that the young can be zoned out of white islands, like they did in my City and like they did in the Villages. Forced to accept high density housing, my City found a work around by zoning the buildings for Seniors only. On another part of the City there is affordable high density homes built across from a new school that advertises itself as a "classical Christian school." When it was first approved in the nineties (or maybe early century), the word was that the housing was meant for families that would attend the private school. Can they even do that legally? Look to the Supreme Court for guidance on that one.
In sum, Republicans haven't thought this one out. I was a child of the sixties. I remember we were here in great numbers, and the one thing conservative parents could count on, was that we did not respect their way of life. They were hypocrites, hokey. In a world with social media, there will be no limit to the shit we're going to hear about what goes on in their religious households.
This is a preventable disaster and someone should bring it to their attention. Right now they're too busy laughing it up because they think we have to accept the word of the five liars on the Supreme Court. I say we keep hitting them with the cost expectation for their decision. The Congress has to justify the costs for the programs they bring to the floor, so why doesn't someone do the cost analysis for Alito's folly, so we all get to know what we're getting into.
I still can't get it out of my head that Clarence Thomas said that stare decisis doesn't matter.
You know what? I think he and Ginni were the leakers of the Alito document and Clarence is now doubling-down by marginalizing the importance of the Supreme Court's long tradition. This is the kind of bullshit strategy that sovereigntist are known for. He is just as bad as they are, though I believe the source of his problem is his wife.
The man lives with a woman who is involved with extreme right-wing radical troublemakers and activists. She has rubbed off on him and radicalized him. Look at the trail of evidence: He was the lone dissenting vote when the Supreme Court voted to allow text messages connected to January 6th investigation to be released to the plaintiff in the case. Included in those messages were texts from Ginni Thomas that implicated her involvement further. It was a case where he should have recused himself.
Red flags everywhere. My money is on Clarence and Ginni Thomas.
I honestly believe we have pro-insurrectionists on the Court and we should all be in shock.
Don't you all miss the years when he wouldn't say a word?
Why I think the conservative judges screwed up their moment.
The desire to flip Supreme Court decisions was in the works as early as the nineties. I know, because I was taking Legal Study classes at the turn of the century and one of the teachers exposed her political leanings one day by pointing out that some of the decisions on the books were not unanimous decisions. She made it clear that because of this, cases could eventually be flipped. But, of course, it was going to be a slow process because of stare decisis. Stare decisis, you see was the one thing that kept the Supreme Court's estimable position in the eyes of the country.
At the same time we were also studying Anthony Scalia's decisions and we learned about his strict constructionist, or stict textualist way of interpreting the law. It seemed so hokey. To me, he came across as an outlier. If the Left made a mistake, it was not challenging his method when it had the chance. It seemed to fail in reasoning, and indeed, some of the stupid conclusions that he spearheaded, like providing way too much protection for police with their stop and frisks and the like, were the very cause of racial unrest and protests. In simple terms, the world that Scalia tried to provide for conservatives was unsustainable. It was so grossly unfair that we all came together when Black Americans took a stand. Slowly, changes are being made to the police force to address the overreaches that the Scalia court tried to create.
Now we're dealing with another conservative overreach with Alito and the four other justices who are trying to end Roe v. Wade. You see, no matter what happens next, this Alito case will be temporary because of how this all came together. They jumped the gun. Not only did they defy precedent, but their legal standing is weak. And for that we should thank the leaker for giving us time to see these flaws.
In the end, if twenty years ago it was said that cases that did not carry unanimous opinions were vulnerable to change in the future, what does that tell you about this court case that was decided by five conservative judges, most who were appointed by presidents who did not win by popular vote and all, who lied in their Senate confirmations when it came down to their support for precedent regarding Roe v. Wade?
We should continue to lead with our outrage, but do not despair. The Alito case will not stand the test of time, because it is garbage in, garbage out.
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