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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(130,115 posts)
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 11:27 AM Jul 2022

What the liberal justices' scorching dissent reveals about the US supreme court

The US supreme court’s 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 women’s rights, and of their status as free and equal citizens”. The drastic decision “undermines the court’s 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 majority’s ruling breaks with core tenets of court procedure.

That criticism echoes throughout the liberals’ other dissenting opinions of the court’s most recent term, which wrapped up late last month, revealing that America’s 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

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What the liberal justices' scorching dissent reveals about the US supreme court (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2022 OP
trumps 4 years-mcconnell's SC picks llashram Jul 2022 #1
"The Plymouth Rock-Mayflower bunch were the dregs of English society." brush Jul 2022 #2

llashram

(6,269 posts)
1. trumps 4 years-mcconnell's SC picks
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 11:52 AM
Jul 2022

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)
2. "The Plymouth Rock-Mayflower bunch were the dregs of English society."
Mon Jul 11, 2022, 12:40 PM
Jul 2022

"Nothing honorable or pure about that bunch."

Heehee.

It's harsh but it's true...can they handle the truth?

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