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goobster  ·  2937 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Sense of Alienation

    The thing you should all be freaking out about? Chief Justice Roberts just got his Conservative majority on the court.

This is what I keep hammering into people, over and over and over. Everybody wants to be all liberal touchy-feely woo-woo and hug it out... but the fucking reality is that the Supreme Court's decisions have far more effect on our daily lives, because they dictate the rules. They draw the lines.

Roe v. Wade will be overturned by this time next year. Planned Parenthood is history.

The Republicans have said that these are the reasons they won't meet with Garland Merrick. They want to flip the Supreme Court conservative so they can kill these specific rulings. They already have the test cases lined up and ready to go as soon as they get their conservative judge appointed.

That shit right there? The public can do NOTHING about. There's no senator you can call. There's no protest on the Mall. These 12 people sit in a room together and discuss the minute details of law and precedent and constitutional interpretation. There is NOTHING the populace can do to sway that opinion. The Justices are shielded from that.

So the court goes conservative, they overturn Roe v. Wade, out goes Planned Parenthood, and uninsured women (which is everyone that is not upper-middle class, because - oh right! - Obamacare is gone) now have 1900's-quality health care.

This is a court that will rule for the rest of my lifetime.

THAT's what these feel-good liberals need to understand.