Supreme Court trashed its own authority in a rush to gut Roe v Wade

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Much has rightly been made of the Texas anti-abortion law's granting bounties to anti-choice vigilantes and of the Supreme Court's abuse of its "shadow docket" to green-light the law in defiance of Roe v. Wade.

But in addition to the harms to women's rights in this law, the court's Sept. 1 decision in Whole Women's Health v. Jackson reveals something dangerous to lawful society writ large: the 5-4 ultra-partisan, conservative majority has, in its haste to gut Roe, eviscerated the rule of law it is supposed to stand for and diminished the court's own authority.

The decision adds fuel to the already strong arguments for reforming the Supreme Court and urgency to the work of President Biden's Commission on the Supreme Court.

It concedes, perhaps even celebrates, the fact that states, and individuals, can engage in legally questionable action and evade judicial scrutiny. By allowing Texas to flout Roe's clear meaning, the court undermines an ordered society and may be paving the way for authoritarian rule.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-trashed-its-own-authority-in-a-rush-to-gut-roe-v-wade/ar-AAO9yU1

[rickyhall]

1. That's exactly what the fucking repugs want. They want unquestioned authoritarian rule.

We should give it to them, but with elected liberals & progressives in charge.

[Budi]

3. With elected Democrats. Democrats gave us ROE & the FACE Act, afterall

It's an honor to say their name.

Its ok to say Democrat.

[PortTack]

2. Last paragraph last sentence, if they are paving the way for authoritarian rule, why would they

Allow a vigilante law system?

I’m not defending them, I’m rather thinking they shit in their nest with this one

[lagomorph777]

4. "paving the way for authoritarian rule" - that is exactly the intention.

Expand SCROTUS now!