All this Russian Buggery of the US ties directly back to the Citizens United Decision

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10. The SC under Roberts has made a number of bad decisions.

Roberts (and Scalia) will be remembered in history as the Chief Justice who opened the doors to massive gun ownership by conveniently ignoring the “well-regulated militia” part of the 2nd Amendment when he know quite well that that amendment was passed when the US did not have a standing army and the amendment allowed the government to call people up to serve when needed. In effect, the amendment should have been changed or eliminated after the US established an army.

The declaration that money is free speech just gave huge advantages to the wealthy because they could afford to buy more propaganda than the average person. And giving people the legal right to discriminate is also backfiring with states and local governments now passing laws allowing business owners and medical providers to refuse services to LGBTQ and women. So it’s now perfectly legal in some areas for an emergency room staff to refuse medical care for a woman with an ectopic pregnancy who will bleed to death without the embryo being removed. Ohio legislators pretending to be doctors are taking even this a step further by trying to pass a law requiring doctors to take the embryo from the fallopian tube and implant it in the uterus—a medical procedure that does not exist. These legislators are too ignorant to understand that ectopic pregnancies usually are found about six weeks after conception when the it is an unformed embryo, not a fetus.

Along with Citizens United, the Hobby Lobby decision was in my mind an establishment of the evangelical Christian religion by the government. I cannot understand how this does bot violate the 1st Amendment. While I was happy that Roberts supported the Affordable Care Act, overall his tenure has been mostly in favor of right-wing conservative causes and the SC has moved the country backwards.