This is what a "conservative" Supreme Court looks like
And why decent America has to take it out
Jennifer Rubin wrote a great July 4 op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday. Her analysis of the Supreme Court’s leap into illegitimacy is spot on.
Scum America now has a scum Supreme Court.
Just as Scum America worships power above all else, so too does this “conservative” court genuflect before the god of selfishness.
They take cases that don’t really exist in order to stick in the eye of decent America. (For example, they took the affirmative action case, where a lower court ruled no discrimination had occurred, as well as the case of the Christian bigot in Colorado who couldn’t even imagine the imaginary horror of having to design a website for a gay marriage, when she doesn't even own such a business and the request for such a website was fabricated.)
They make up “doctrines” that don’t exist in order to grab at opportunities to stick it more in the eye of decent America. (The “major questions” theory, which allows them to decide that anything they don’t like is “major” enough for them to take up a non-existent case just to render a radical “conservative” attempt to turn society back to their white-supremacist version of the 1950s.)
They simply ignore precedent when it goes against them, just to get their way. (Roe v. Wade had nearly 50 years of precedent behind it, with many Supreme Court rulings affirming it. So did affirmative action.)
There are the actions of angry, arrogant white people (and one white wannabee, Clarence Thomas) who resent the twentieth century’s expansion of rights. Rather than seeing minority rights, womens’ rights, and LGBTQ+ rights as wins for everyone on the road to more perfect justice, they see it as a power loss in a zero-sum war of Whites Against All Comers.
And they do it out in the open. They write stupid, self-contradictory opinions, distorting facts, “interpreting” laws to mean the opposite of what they say (let alone what the lawmakers intended, which was the utterly moronic “conservative” standard until they took control of the court), and inventing nonsense distinctions to try to disguise their power grabs as unobjectionable, butter-wouldn’t-melt decisions.
They think we can’t see them.
They think that because they’ve gotten away with it since the 1970s. It’s not that decent Americans don’t see this for what it is. It’s not that we haven’t been warning that this was coming since at least the Reagan era.
It’s that too many people were not listening. And that was enough of a wedge for them to drive a stake into the heart of democracy.
Are they listening now? Well, recent polls show that most Americans don’t trust the court. (Check out this Gallup Poll from last month showing approval for the Supreme Court down to 25%.)
But the “conservative” fake “justices” have snatched the power. They don’t care that 75% mistrust them. They become enraged when their financial corruption is uncovered. They excoriate the liberal justices on the court just for having decent character and a decent respect for justice. They flagrantly display their arrogant self-importance and vicious defense of deeply vile “conservative” selfishness while chiding the liberals for “divisive” critiques of their intellectually and morally bankrupt “opinions.”
It’s loud and despicable. And it makes people listen. And more of them see and hear just how rotten these scum “justices” are.
But, again, they have grabbed the power, and they—card-carrying “conservative” crypto-fascists, as all “conservatives” really are behind their self-righteous disguises—will use it shamelessly until they drag their hellish theocracy into being—or until we stop them.
Like all delayed responses, stopping them will be harder now that it would have been earlier. If a few more decent Americans had voted in 2000, we could have avoided the tyrannical, torture-loving Bush-Cheney years, not to mention the economic meltdown caused, as always, by “conservative” permissiveness toward ruthless capitalists. If a few more decent Americans had voting in 2016, we could have avoided the anti-democracy Orcs of the filthy Trump administration, the millions of excess dead in the COVID crisis, and the seditionist conspiracy leading to a traitorous attack on the Capitol.
Now, instead of just a few more decent Americans voting, we have to come out in numbers never seen before. We have to do it consistently enough to give politicians the idea that we won’t put up with “conservatism” any longer. We have to do it vocally enough that they know we want this supremely unjust court replaced or expanded and its “judgments” reversed. We have to do it intensely enough so they know we want the entire “conservative” backlash crushed once and for all.
Is this possible?
Yes, it is. Such extreme judicial tyranny has happened before in America. It produces violent reactions from the people. The Dred Scott decision ultimately resulted in the civil war. The Slaughter-House Cases ultimately led to the election of FDR, his New Deal, and his threat to pack the court—which in turn, led to liberal control of Congress for half a century.
So it is possible. But it will be harder now.
Decent America has always been up for hard work against despotic “conservatism,” at least up until now.
Let’s gear up again and put an end to this once and for all.
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Scott
Great article again, Scott.
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