What the liberal justices' scorching dissent reveals about the US supreme court
The US supreme courts decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending nearly 50 years of federal protections for abortion access, was catastrophic. The ruling amounted to a curtailment of womens rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens. The drastic decision undermines the courts legitimacy, and the consequences of it will set off an upheaval in
society.
Those are voices from the supreme court itself: the words of its three liberal justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor in their scorching and thorough joint dissenting opinion on a decision by their body which has fundamentally altered the lives of millions of Americans.
In the opinion, the three liberal justices repeatedly warn of the devastating impact of the end of Roe, while emphasizing that the majoritys ruling breaks with core tenets of court procedure.
That criticism echoes throughout the liberals other dissenting opinions of the courts most recent term, which wrapped up late last month, revealing that Americas top legal body with huge power over American life is deeply split. And while huge attention has been paid to the rulings of the rightwing majority, the liberal dissents also offer an insight into the state of America and a scary warning for its future.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-the-liberal-justices-scorching-dissent-reveals-about-the-us-supreme-court/ar-AAZrp0k
llashram
(6,269 posts)have revealed what has always been the elephant in the room. 'Conservatives' on the extreme right have always chafed at the fact of liberty and freedom enjoyed by non-white people and cultures and the equality of ALL women. It's still quietly kept that many conservative European people have been given citizenship in the last 5 years just to help the racist right in its demand for a return to white supremacy by the slowly dwindling 'pure white people majority' of the US. And I laugh in derision at that notion.
The Plymouth Rock-Mayflower bunch were the dregs of English society. Nothing honourable or pure about that bunch. And over the centuries they have just more racist and extremely hateful as exemplified by the dangerous division now epidemic in Amerikkka.
America is at a historic crossroads.
brush
(61,033 posts)"Nothing honorable or pure about that bunch."
Heehee.
It's harsh but it's true...can they handle the truth?