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Organized Defiance May Be the Only Answer to an Undemocratic Court – Alan Singer on History News Net [1]
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Date: 2022-07-06
Organized Defiance May Be the Only Answer to an Undemocratic Court – Alan Singer on History News Network
The rightwing majority on the Supreme Court is on a rampage against reasonable, non-ideological, interpretations of the law and the Constitution. It may be poised, in the language of Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, to “reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell” and “whether any of the rights announced in this Court’s substantive due process cases are ‘privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States’ protected under the Fourteenth Amendment.” Republican judges, including the three Trump appointees, seem determined to eliminate all protection for the personal right to intimacy and privacy and fundamental legal protections. Their actions place individuals, especially women, the country as a whole, and with the threat of an impending climate catastrophe, much of the world, at deep risk. . . . It is time for “blue states” to defy rightwing Supreme Court rulings that are blatantly undemocratic, impose a minority’s religious and political beliefs on the rest of the country, and enforce questionable interpretations of the United States Constitution . . . The idea of judicial review by this Supreme Court must be challenged.
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