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Related: About this forumSCOTUS shows off its contempt for women
Perhaps the most repulsive moment of the morning came courtesy of Justice Sam Alito, who is always ready to act like the biggest mansplaining creep in the highly competitive field of GOP-appointed judges. In response to Prelogar's argument that American women have come to rely on abortion rights, Alito sneeringly argued that the South had also come to rely on "white supremacy" after Plessy v. Ferguson, but that didn't stop the court from overturning it in Brown v. the Board of Education. Yes, you read that correctly: Alito compared a woman's right to control her own body to upholding Jim Crow.
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At one point, Justice Brett Kavanaugh ran down a long list of cases he felt like overturned historical precedent, in the way he clearly would like to overturn Roe including Brown and, more recently, Obergefell v. Hodges, the case that legalized same-sex marriage. Prelogar did her best to rebut this claim, pointing out that these decisions to overturn precedent expanded human rights, and overturning Roe would take them away. But the conservatives don't seem inclined to view women as humans with rights, and so ignored this crucial point.
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"Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?" Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked at one point.
But it's hard to imagine six justices are going to be that worried about being criticized in this way. They don't take women seriously as people, so it's unlikely they care much more for the opinions of people who do view women as full human beings. As with Kavanaugh whining and crying because he had to deal with a sexual assault accusation from Christine Blasey Ford, they are all likely to double down on their sense of grievance that they even have to waste time with the women-are-people crowd. Erasing women's rights will be as easy for them as stepping on ants.
https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-abortion-2655906136/]
They have planned this. It took nearly 50 years, and the most partisan religious right cray cray SCOTUS seen, will gleefully and with delight remove reproductive justice for women from multitudes of states. The contempt they feel for for women is visceral and the racism obvious. And the Aunt Lydia of the bunch, there is no words, well no polite words. More analysis at the link.
Under his eye.
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guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)The "purity at all costs" bloc led to the GOP landslide in 2010, which led to the redistricting that allows a minority Party to control the debate, and much of the country.
mbusby
(825 posts)...all over again.
Kath2
(3,147 posts)Kavanaugh, Barrett, Gorsuch. We need to raise holy hell if this case goes down like it looks like it will. Marches, demonstrations, strikes, civil disobedience and whatever else it takes. The ugly legacy of the trump administration continues to do damage to women.
katmondoo
(6,487 posts)Kath2
(3,147 posts)And this is going on during a very a very pro-choice Biden/Harris administration. I am so thankful that trump lost.
Its a hell of a time of year for a Womens March on
Washington. As a feckin foreigner I cant believe how
backwards the the United States is. I am gonna get
dumped on. Its those that wont get off their asses
and vote.It will take many thousands of women that
will band together like in the old days to get their rights
addressed by the scummy six Catholic Supremes..
electric_blue68
(16,723 posts)I maybe an ex Catholic (from decades ago) for various reasons ...
but I won't have such a broad brush applied to them either
3auld6phart
(1,177 posts)OMI. Notice I said six so-called Supremes. Who are total trump humpers or republican
toadies. There are more good RCs out there than you can shake a stick at. Many,even
Frank in Rome not a bad fella.
electric_blue68
(16,723 posts)"scummy".
I took it (perhaps wrongly) that that refered to them being Catholic vs being scummy bc of their views and they happen to be Catholics...
...since there are plenty of RW Christians - probably more than Catholics since Catholics in total are a big, but still minority religion in the USA.
OMI - religious order?
Looked it up as a acronym.
That fella in Rome has done some excellent things.
Evolve Dammit
(17,840 posts)bucolic_frolic
(45,600 posts)One by Mitch's refusal to consider Obama's nominee (they weren't even man enough to hold the hearings and vote him down), the unqualified and hardly vetted one, and the Rushed One in the last moments of 2020.
3 Stolen Seats.
They will politicize law with this ruling the same way they have politicized all aspects of life. Civil rights don't matter. Political power matters. Money matters.
Evolve Dammit
(17,840 posts)ancianita
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