It happened in a matter of days for most. The United States Supreme Court’s two-week-old sentences have transformed the country in a way that is so conservative no president could have imagined. The court has extended the right of free bear arms and severely limited the right for abortion in certain states. It has also blurred the line between Church and state, strengthened police power, and prevented the Administration’s regulation of the coal industry. to combat climate change. America, Happy Birthday
The barbecues on Monday of this July Fourthth will feature a coven where women burn their menstruation schedules, men polish their guns, and evangelicals pray defiantly. Charcoal is welcome to the flame. Very polluting, black, and dark. It is impossible to stop it. The Supreme is the final instance. The bonfire will bring the nation back to a time many long for. It will be shared by thousands, millions of Americans. They will have the one Donald Trump promised when he spoke to them during the campaign of “good old days”. They were the ones where Black Lives Matter protesters were disrupting their rallies. The police “carried them out on stretchers”, and the women were raised on their heels in order to adorn their alpha male.
The new conservative supermajority issued a series of bomb sentences and instructed all judges that they must rule. This instruction was attached to the Constitution, which was created 234 years ago. It is rooted in tradition. The majority opinion in its final week of failure wrote that it was not the one from 50 years ago, when Roe v. Wade was approved by your ancestors. It is the one from 1868 when the 14th amendment to the Constitution was passed.
Three progressive justices resentfully disapproved of all these rulings and called their “originalist” colleagues’ attachment “stiff, stiff”. They interpret that the founding fathers “define rights in general terms to allow for their future evolution in scope, meaning, and purpose.” The United States of America is not the Wild West country it was at that time. Neither do soldiers now carry carabiners. You can store the Magna Carta in formaldehyde to prevent it from evolving, but carabiners are now automatic assault rifles capable of firing a hundred rounds per minute. They aren’t used to defend themselves against British and Indian soldiers who have, incidentally, also been taken a beating by the court.
The conservative majority has overthrown the sovereignty of Native Americans on their reservations by ruling against Castro-Huerta in the Oklahoma case. They have been legally under control on these reservations since their founding according to the signed treaties. Now, the magistrates believe that Oklahoma will be able for Native Americans to face trial for crimes committed within their tribal reservations. They have their own police and judicial systems. Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch stated, “It is only possible to hope that future political branches will honor the promises made by this nation to the Native Americans, even though today they have been betrayed.”
It was against an existing jurisprudence in all of these cases. Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion for McGirt against Oklahoma in 2020. In which the State was denied the right to arrest and trial for crimes “within the scope of the reserve of an federally recognized court”, This means that nearly half of Oklahoma, which includes Tulsa would be exempted from the control of Republican Governor Kevin Stitt who signed the first law in America that prohibits abortion. either in cases of rape, incest, or previously reported cases.
“The majority of court has struck down Roe v. Wade because they have always held them in contempt and can vote to dismiss it now,” Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor wrote together. This opportunity was offered by Mitch McConnell of the Republican Party, the Senate leader. McConnell denied Barack Obama in 2016 the right to appoint Justice Antonin Scalia’s successor. He died in February 2016. McConnell used his power to create the Senate agenda, refusing to place on it Judge Merrick Garland’s confirmation. Obama had already chosen him. McConnell also argued that the election was so close that the nomination should not be given to the future president. You could have had Hillary Clinton. In which case, women would not be protesting abortion rights in America. But it was Donald Trump. He got more votes than her. This allowed him to appoint Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He was a signer for the opinion that Native Americans have been robbed of sovereignty.
Joe Biden did not get the honor of selecting Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor, despite the fact that the same argument was used. Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in her prime a month before the elections. McConnell expedited the confirmation process of Amy Coney Barrett. Trump took her in office six days after he lost the election. Many view it as “a coup by judiciary in process,” Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio Cortez condemned. She warned that if Congress and the president don’t stop it immediately, the court will signal that the election is coming.”
The court did indeed announce Thursday that it would review Moore v. Harper. This case concerns the North Carolina legislature’s power to redestrict electoral districts in a partisan fashion that favors Republican candidates electorally. The Supreme Court of that State reversed that decision and is now studying a revised map. Trump supporters could have gotten the electoral results of Pennsylvania certified by the Supreme Court of a State, if they were prevented from curbing partisan abuses. This is what the most conservative judges have done. Without which Biden would not have been in the White House today.
It was paradoxically the Supreme Court who intervened in 2000 elections. They opposed Florida’s highest judiciary authority and forced the end to the vote count that had separated Al Gore and George W. Bush by only 537 votes. Bush, another president not receiving the majority of popular vote, was able to appoint two Supreme Court justices. Samuel Alito, John Roberts and Judge Clarence Thomas form today the 6-3 supermajority, which inevitably determines the direction and content of sentences.
Roberts was willing to allow Mississippi to restrict abortion to the first 15 weeks of gestation but not to repeal Roe v. Wade. He is the one who has dealt the blow to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). President Biden lamented, “Another catastrophic failure that will set us back,” as he loses the ability to lead the world against climate change. The Supreme Court has ruled that it doesn’t have the authority or power to regulate carbon emissions from power companies. According to its goal, the Government should produce zero pollutants by 2035. Judge Elena Kagan said, “Few things are more chilling than that,” when she criticised their peers.
There are many. There are a few. They will transform the lives of many generations by spending decades changing the world. For the first time ever, women in America will have fewer rights that their mothers.
