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As gently as possible, you've utterly misunderstood reality. The whole system is designed around all levels of government trying to impose their own version of
by snapplebobapple 1y ago
As gently as possible, you've utterly misunderstood reality. The whole system is designed around all levels of government trying to impose their own version of stupid on all the others and providing effective PFO levers that work at varying timescales. You just witnessed a longer term PFO lever being pulled on to overturn an abortion ruling that best case had very weak constitutional grounds to stand on for its existence. There was not anywhere near civil war level violence here. What happened was the court ruling was obviously unjust to enough people that, over time it grew a stronger and stronger movement that influenced judicial appointments over decades via the ballot box.
You've also misunderstood this supreme court. It has swung towards giving a great deal of care about originalism with the argument they should not be making law, the legislators should change the constitution via the legislative pathway if they want change and it is the job of the supreme court to uphold the constitution as written/intended. That context makes it even more likely they were going to overturn abortion because in an originalist context the support for what was done in Roe V Wade is zero. The current judges will die and be replaced and if you want them replaced with people who care less about originalism then you need to adjust your political platform to ensure you can be in power often enough to swing some of those seats. In this regard the system is working perfectly.
- fzeroracer 1y agoNo, I understand the Supreme Court perfectly. Their 'Originalism' stance is bullshit because in one breath they claim Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional while in another allowing the blatant violation of individuals constitutional rights.