Why do many DUer's see the overturn of Roe as an election tool and forget

[saracat]

SCOTUS is a LIFETIME appointment? If Scalito is confirmed we will not get any of our privacy rights back within my lifetime! The only Supremes left safeguarding our rights are ancient. If Bush packs the court we are finished. The very principle of checks and balances will have been used against itself to destroy us! If the court is packed against of it doesn't really matter about anything else.That damage is forever.

[mmonk]

1. Not necessarily forever,

just the rest that some of us have of our lives.

[saracat]

5. It would be too late for me. I am glad I renewed my passport.

It would be hard for me to justify supporting this country any longer.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

7. Only until they die

So pray for a heart attack

[saracat]

10. All new nominees are young and in good health.

[stepnw1f]

2. This is Exactly What Goes Through My Mind Everyday Now

We will be living in a very oppressive society.... oh the ugliness we will see from this from a psychological stand point is frightening. Crime will rise, drug addiction, unprotected sex, poverty, etc...

Like dominos, one thing will lead to another.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

3. Supreme court justices can be impeached

The SCOTUS decision of Bush v Gore is probably worthy of impeaching all who voted for it.

[saracat]

9. But it isn't going to happen!

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

11. They can also be shot

Not that I would ever, under any circumstances advocate violence or criminal behavior.

[pocket]

18. I would never condone that, but I might buy a round in celebration

strictly hypothetical, of course.

[kenny blankenship]

4. The Democrats will be left with the only remaining option

which is to uphold the individual & inalienable right to the property of one's own body by packing the Court with people who actually believe in freedom.

[saracat]

8. And exactly how would they do that if no jutices are willing to resign?

Roberts and Alito are both young men and you can bet any future Bushco nominees will be as well!

[kenny blankenship]

13. Packing the court doesn't involve replacing Justices

hence the term "packing"

[Dragonbreathp9d]

6. Checks and balances

have already been negated by this administration, stolen elections along with sidestepping laws (if they spied on Americans in the way that we know of, what else have they done illegally?). A single party having all the power (either party) is a dangerous thing for democracy.

[EST]

14. While I agree, in principle,

it has now been proven, beyond any real argument, if that single party happens to be republican, the damage occurs much faster, more violently, and far deeper than in the opposite condition.
Quite a number of times, in the last fifty years, all three branches have been democrat or left leaning and the crashing cataclysm that the current criminal conspiracy has brought down on us simply did not happen.
Yes, there was a creeping social comfort zone that gave the unwary a sense if unaccountability, but what did that lead to?
There was never any question of the US turning into a fascist state, a dictatorship, or some form of theocratic nationalist state. What did happen? Well, some of the comfortable congressmen began advancing themselves next month's payday through the house bank and sloppy, good ol' boy paperwork.

There is just no damn comparison!

Soapbox kicked firmly back under bed.
:hi: :toast:

[wishlist]

12. Once Bush packs the S.C. we can forget about oversight or investigations

The current court has already trampled on our rights with decisions such as election 2000 and preventing release of Cheney's WH energy meetings and protecting govt secrecy such as Sybil Edmonds' case. It is quite probable that special counsel investigations such as Plame leak could get stymied by the courts preventing testimony involving Executive branch wrongdoing.

[mom cat]

15. We must stop Alito and we can do it. Tell your senators to go to the mat

on this or at least not support a nuke!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

16. Well, the other guys are getting older

and if we get a Dem in 2008 we have a good chance of evening things out again.

Nobody lives forever.

[thoughtanarchist]

17. It's a big gerrymandering scheme...

A Roe V. Wade overturn would put the issue back to the states and force population expansion in red states and basically turning the bible belt into 1 big freeper factory.

...chirp chirp chirp....

What?!?!? No one likes gallows humor?
:shrug:

Seriously though. Not the end of the world.

Congress can still move to protect reproductive rights via legislation right?

All theoretical still at this point as a filibuster is still feasible from what I can see...