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LetMyPeopleVote

(143,999 posts)
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 12:42 AM Sep 2021

Amy Coney Barrett wants us to believe the Supreme Court isn't partisan. Good luck with that

This "lady" is a partisan religious nut case hack




Even worse is that the ruling was made on a procedural question without the court even hearing argument on the merits of the Texas law. In a rare public comment, Breyer — one of the four justices who voted to block the Texas law at least temporarily — called the ruling “very, very, very wrong.” And Breyer is very, very, very right to be upset, because even if the ruling is technically just about procedure, it has concrete and dramatic impact on any Texas woman who is or becomes pregnant and doesn’t want to be. Moreover, other states with Republican-controlled state legislatures are rushing to draft copycat laws. If the Supreme Court wants to let states ban abortion, it should just go ahead and reverse Roe v. Wade.

I see no reason to believe the court’s conservative majority will stop short of doing just that. Thomas and Alito have long made clear that they are raring to do just that. And while the three justices appointed by former president Donald Trump — Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett — all claimed deep respect for precedent at their confirmation hearings, their votes to let the Texas law go into effect say otherwise.

The conservative Federalist Society, which has become a crucial gatekeeper on the right and vetted a list of acceptable Supreme Court candidates for Trump to choose from, did its job well. The result is a solid five-vote and sometimes six-vote majority that opposes abortion, supports gun rights, questions affirmative action, doubts existing federal protection of voting rights, doesn’t see the influence of big money in politics as a problem... in short, a majority that agrees with the Republican Party’s position on issues the party most cares about.

What can Democrats and progressives do about all the terrible, reactionary, wrongheaded decisions that look likely to come in the next months and years? On voting rights, they could pass strong new federal legislation, like the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act or the For the People Act. On other issues, they should prepare to battle at the state level — and to bring the same legislative creativity and tenacity that Texas conservatives brought to bear on the abortion law.

And they should ignore Barrett and others who claim this court’s decisions are nonpartisan — at least until and unless we see evidence to the contrary.
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Amy Coney Barrett wants us to believe the Supreme Court isn't partisan. Good luck with that (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2021 OP
The more she professes her honesty the more inclined I am twodogsbarking Sep 2021 #1
For this thread LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2021 #2
I'll say it. Put the pressure on Senate Democrats until they vote to lees1975 Sep 2021 #3

lees1975

(3,718 posts)
3. I'll say it. Put the pressure on Senate Democrats until they vote to
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 12:41 PM
Sep 2021

break the filibuster and PACK THAT COURT!

Barack Obama should be the first nominee.

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