Requiem for the Supreme Court (Worth the read)

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/opinion/roe-v-wade-dobbs-decision.html?smid=tw-share

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https://archive.ph/lqSNL

They did it because they could.

It was as simple as that.

With the stroke of a pen, Justice Samuel Alito and four other justices, all chosen by Republican presidents running on successive party platforms committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, erased the constitutional right to reproductive autonomy that the Supreme Court recognized more than 49 years ago. As the dissenting opinion — written by Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — observed, never before had the court rescinded an individual right and left it up to the states whether to respect what had once been anchored in the Constitution.

The practical consequences of the decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, are enormous and severe. Abortion, now one of the most common medical procedures, will be banned or sharply limited in about half the country. Excluding miscarriages, nearly one in five pregnancies ends in abortion in the United States, and one American woman in four will terminate a pregnancy during her lifetime. Two generations of women in this country have come of age secure in the knowledge that an unintended pregnancy need not knock their lives off course. “After today,” as the dissent pointed out, “young women will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had.”

What the court delivered on Friday is a requiem for the right to abortion. As Chief Justice John Roberts, who declined to join Justice Alito’s opinion, may well suspect, it is also a requiem for the Supreme Court.

Consider the implication of Justice Alito’s declaration that Roe v. Wade was “egregiously wrong” from the start. Five of the seven justices in the Roe majority — all except William O. Douglas and Thurgood Marshall — were appointed by Republican presidents. The votes necessary to preserve the right to abortion 19 years later in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Roe follow-up decision that the court also overturned on Friday, came from five Republican-appointed justices.

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[BeyondGeography]

1. Definitive...this is writing that meets the moment

K&R

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[SergeStorms]

3. These are not our father's republicans.

These are mean spirited 'christian' warriors. Five 'justices' intent upon over-ruling a consititional right, supported by nearly 70% of the American people, because it upsets their delicate 'christian' sensibilities.

They may call themselves 'justices', but their naked activism blows that word straight to hell. There was absolutely no justice in their small-minded decision whatsoever.

[dalton99a]

4. We are ruled by radical extremists masquerading as jurists

[SunSeeker]

5. Yup, and they lied to Senators to get themselves on the bench. nt

[Rebl2]

6. So very true

[Cheezoholic]

7. Thank you for posting that

Powerful and concise. The Supremes are not the end all.

[True Blue American]

8. Why is no one calling for

The prosecution of the 3 Justices that lied to Congress?

[Cheezoholic]

9. First of all more than 3 voted to overturn

Secondly, since jurists deal in "opinions", their opinions can "change". I mean can you charge a politician with a crime if they run as a Democrat then switch parties? There is nothing to prosecute, especially justices as they aren't elected. I might add these fuckers aren't god although they may think they are. If Democrats will get out and vote in say 70% of the numbers we did in 2020, Roberts court is toast. All of these patriarchal fascist overturning of decades to century lasting precedent will be admonished. Biden will pull a Lincoln on these motherfuckers, but he needs support in the House and Senate to do it. I have no doubt he will pack the court if the people vote to demand it.

[Nevilledog]

10. Kick