Fourth With SCOTUS

Happy Fourth of July to everyone to whom SCOTUS deems it applies because, you see, The Supreme Court of the United States doesn’t believe rights and freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution apply to everyone equally.

President Biden said this court has taken away more rights than any court before it, and he’s right.

Last June when SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, the president said, “Today, the Supreme Court of the United States expressly took away a constitutional right from the American people that it had already recognized. They didn’t limit it.  They simply took it away.  That’s never been done to a right so important to so many Americans.”

This week, the Supreme Court took away affirmative action for colleges and ruled that the president can’t forgive student debt.

Republicans immediately started quoting Martin Luther King without comprehension and cheered that Biden’s authority had been knocked down, never mind that they supported Trump’s authority to move funding from one program to another without congressional approval to fund his racist wall and extorted a foreign leader by withholding military aid.

President Biden opposes “stacking” the court by expanding the number of justices, even though stacking it is exactly what the Republicans did. But the court’s credibility is not in danger because it’s already gone.

The court’s credibility was lost when three justices were put on it by politicians that the majority of Americans voted against. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were all nominated for the court by a president (sic) who lost the popular vote and confirmed by a Senate majority of Republicans despite the fact that most Americans voted for Democratic Senate candidates.

This court lost its credibility when Gorsuch was placed on it after Mitch McConnell refused to hold a hearing for President Obama’s nominee for nearly a year.

This court lost its credibility when Trump and Republicans put Kavanaugh on that was a backroom deal with a retiring justice.

This court lost its credibility after Republicans put Kavanaugh on it while refusing to investigate credible accusations of sexual assault and attempted rape.

This court lost its credibility after more than one justice overturned Roe after lying during their confirmation hearings that abortion was the “law of the land,” as Gorsuch described it, and “settled as precedent” as Kavanaugh did.

This court lost its credibility when Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case they used to overturn Roe, wasn’t challenging the right to an abortion.

This Supreme Court lost its credibility after Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the GOP Senate majority rushed through Barrett’s confirmation less than two months before an election after refusing to hold a hearing for Merrick Garland, Obama’s nominee in 2016, for nearly a year.

This court has lost its credibility because Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett all accepted their seats under the shady sketchy chock-full-o-bullshit circumstances from which they gained them.

This court lost its credibility by overturning established rights that the majority of Americans supported. Last September, 58 percent of Americans disapproved of the job the Supreme Court was doing. It’ll be interesting to see what it is next week.

What will this court take away next, the rights for women and black Americans to vote, the right to same-sex marriage, the right to interracial marriage (unless you’re a Republican), or the right to fly a rainbow flag? This court is not done with its agenda of turning this nation into a fascist theocracy. Some of these justices are basing their opinions, not on the Constitution, but on their religious zealotry. If you don’t believe me, read their opinions. Read Alito’s line about a “domestic supply of infants.”

These rulings also confirm that we are still in the Trump era and that we absolutely can not give that disaster another four years in the White House because we’re still trying to clean the disaster from his previous four.

So happy Fourth of July, Americans…if it applies to you.

Music note: I listened to the fictional band Infant Sorrow. Warning: Nearly all the songs are about drugs and sex and none of it’s subtle.

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