ABORTION BAN Tops Roberts' Supreme Court Hit Parade

"Chief Justice John Roberts defends the legitimacy of the Supreme Court" - MSN

Really? Decide for yourself based on these extreme rulings by Roberts' Supreme Court. How do six unelected officials get to force pregnancies? Deny Americans of their right to vote? Especially after a President who did not win a majority of votes packed the court with three extremist, right wing justices.

• Ban abortions
• Gut Voting Right Act
• Approve Republican gerrymandering
• Let dark money flood politics
• Endorsed tax breaks for the rich
• Cripple EPA from fighting climate change
• Blocked gun safety measures
• Evict poor tenants during the pandemic
• Block immigration reform
• Ban Muslims from entering America
• Politicize justice system

Roberts' Supreme Court Hit Parade

Politicians in robes

"The inflamed public reaction stems also from the fact that the law changed because the court’s membership changed. The ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was the culmination of a political and politicized process to bolster the conservative majority by any means necessary. And this stacked court has — time after time, but most flagrantly in overruling Roe v. Wade — abandoned normal rules of restraint, twisted or ignored doctrine, and substituted raw power to achieve its desired result.

And this is how the institution undermines its own legitimacy. If the court behaves like just another political body, it loses the only power it has, of achieving public acceptance of its rulings." - Washington Post

Republicans have packed the courts

"We go through this Kabuki dance whenever a Supreme Court vacancy occurs. The nominee sits in front of a senatorial hearing for hours, doing his best to never answer any questions which might betray his likely voting intentions, even though everyone already KNOWS what he is going to stand for, on the bench ... they are exclusively selected based on political considerations. Note that Trump's list comes from the Federalist Society.

If it were even remotely true that Supreme Court members behave apolitically, we wouldn't be seeing the blatantly obvious pattern we see in the votes, with frequent 5-4 decisions whose alignment doesn't need to be known, because we already know it... we know which of the 'liberal' and 'conservative' justices voted which way. We know which justices adhere to concepts like 'originalism' and 'textualism', and which consider the Constitution to be a 'live' document. We know which ones think they can divine the mindset of long dead Founding Fathers, and which ones think that idea is absurd." - Forum

Legitimacy is earned

“The way the court retains its legitimacy and fosters public confidence is by acting like a court,” said Justice Elena Kagan. “By doing the kind of things that do not seem to people political or partisan. By not behaving as though we are just people with individual political or policy or social preferences that we are making everybody live with, but instead we are acting like a court, doing something that is recognizably law-like. That is where we gain our legitimacy.”

Specifically, Kagan said, acting like a court means respecting precedent, applying judicial methodologies consistently and irrespective of outcome, and not lunging to make decisions more far-reaching than the pending case requires. “People are rightly suspicious if one justice leaves the court or dies and another justice takes his or her place and all of a sudden the law changes on you,” she said. “That doesn’t seem like law.” - Washington Post

Supreme Court strips Americans of their freedoms

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Verdict: Guilty of politicizing justice. A handful of unelected officials should not be able to force pregnancies on women.

TakeAway: Elections matter. Vote for Democrats to fix the justice system.

Deepak
DemLabs

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