What happens to our inferred constitutional "right to privacy" that limits government control over our actions, experiences, choices, personal/financial information, bodies? It had to be "inferred" to exist from several amendments to the Constitution in the 1960s in order to rule in Griswold v Connecticut that married couples had a right to birth control (after CT made contraception illegal). Unmarried users could still be imprisoned.
The right to privacy is very broadly encompassing, protecting our sovereignty over many aspects of our lives. All originalists intend to reverse it, and with it not only will abortion, and likely contraception, become illegal in many states, but police power over the citizenry would be greatly expanded. Trump's a dummy, but as a wannabe dictator he has to know this. Imagine police able to track citizens through cameras and facial recognition software, cell phone stingray tracking, and everything else without needing a court order. Government able to read our emails and prisons with no duty to make us available for elective surgery such as a kidney transplant.
Speaking of, LGBTQ have become very quiet. They're very afraid, of course, and very rightly.
And how about the general welfare clause? Virtually all our federal social programs hinge on an interpretation that even someone like me agrees probably goes far beyond what our founders intended. NO Social Security. No Medicare or Medicaid. NO national healthcare program of any kind.
All just a small part of what could be done within a couple of years.
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