If you thought the conservative US Supreme Court justices were done after dismantling Roe v. Wade, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
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According to President Joe Biden, the successful takedown of a woman’s right to choose means the conservative Supreme Court justices now have their sights set on tearing down same-sex marriage, voting rights, immigration, and (yes, again) Obamacare.
“It’s really quite a radical decision,” Mr. Biden said in his first public comments about the leaked court draft. “It’s a fundamental shift in American jurisprudence.
“If the Court does overturn Roe, it will fall on our nation’s elected officials at all levels of government to protect a woman’s right to choose,” the president continued. “And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November.”
Because the court document “goes way overboard,” Mr. Biden added: “Every other decision based on the notion of privacy is [now] thrown into question.”
He couldn’t be more correct.
Long ago, the Republican Party got into bed with the Christian conservative coalition and together, they pledged a concerted effort to rebuild the Supreme Court in their own image in order to mandate morality based on their own terms. Or, in other words, the ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN’ slogan is really a long game to utilize Supreme Court justices to turn America’s clock back to the 1950s — where men only married women, Blacks knew their place and didn’t rock the boat (especially at the ballot box), immigrants didn’t seek a better life in the good ol’ US of A, Obamacare for everyone never existed, and abortions were illegal and only performed in dark alleys using dirty coat hangers.
Yes, with the high court now packed with 3 Donald Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices (thanks to Mitch McConnell’s refusal to even consider President Obama’s choice of Merrick Garland in 2016), the players are in place to mold America into the vision Republicans and White conservative Christians want it to be.
Too bad the strategic scheme could backfire on Republicans — just in time for the November midterm election.
The leaked document announcing the intent to end Roe v. Wade was music to the ears of Republican, White, Christian conservatives. However, it is almost certain to become a rallying cry for Democratic and Independent voters who want the government to stay out of their bodies, their bedrooms, and their personal lives.
Political pundits have long predicted that the 2022 midterm election could see Republicans regain control of the House of Representatives and US Senate and then tear down decades of progression. Now, that belief is in jeopardy as the conservative Supreme Court justices may have just altered the ultimate outcome of the November election.
The leaked court document immediately rallied Democrats and women across the county, prompting men and women to gather in protest on the steps of the US Supreme Court.
The document also served as a call to arms for voters everywhere to take this year’s election seriously and to put in politicians who are committed to protecting America’s rights.
With that in mind, Democrats immediately began to cast the 2022 midterms as a complete referendum on the court’s leaked decision.
“Republicans just gutted Roe v Wade, the Constitution’s guarantee of reproductive freedom, and will ban abortion in all 50 states if they take over Congress,” New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney tweeted. “Only Democrats will protect our freedoms. That is now the central choice in the 2022 election.”
“Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Twitter. “And if there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes.”
Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW. And if there aren’t 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 3, 2022
“Women are going to go to vote in numbers we have never seen before,” Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar said on CBS. “If they want to protect their fundamental rights to reproductive choice or their fundamental rights to anything, they had better go vote in the fall.”
“If we want judges who will protect all, and not just some of our rights, then we’ve got to elect officials committed to doing the same.”
– Barack and Michelle Obama
Interestingly, Republicans, MAGA misfits, and Fox News personalities are merely focusing on the travesty of the document being leaked ahead of time. However, Democrats, women, African-American voters, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and others are already focusing on the fact that fundamental rights are under siege by conservatism — and the correct response is to put a stop to it at the ballot box by EVERYONE voting in November.
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The Supreme Court justices may have altered the 2022 election.
DJ, I had hoped you would continue with this discussion today…and you did not disappoint. Thank you!
“Women are going to go to vote in numbers we have never seen before,” Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar said on CBS. “If they want to protect their fundamental rights to reproductive choice or their fundamental rights to anything, they had better go vote in the fall.” h/t: DJ
I wish I shared Sen. Klobuchar’s belief in women voters now coming out to “vote in numbers we have never seen before” – especially young adult women; and Lord knows I hope she’s right. But sadly, I’ll have to see it to believe it.