Insincerely,
Roberts Court conservatives
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, was on message Wednesday night. Asked about passing judicial ethics reform to address the legitimacy crisis in the Supreme Court, she went right to “We’ve got an election coming up.”
Democrats need to build their majority in the U.S. Senate and hold their majority in the House. Bottom line.
Don’t just scream at your TV between now and November 8, Warren said. Ask, “What can I do to influence the outcome of the election in November?”
How much power the court will have to determine our lives going forward is on the line. Abortion rights are on the line. If Republicans gain enough power in 2022 and 2024, they will ban abortion nationally, either directly or effectively, and states’ rights be damned.
Each of the GOP’s court nominees swore under oath that Roe v. Wade was settled law. [Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.] As soon as conservatives had the court majority, they overturned Roe and eviscerated a constitutional right protected for the last half century.
Other rights are now negotiable. Rights to personal autonomy and privacy. Voting rights. Same-sex marriage. Labor protections. Equal protection under law. Democratic theory underlying the U.S. Constitution. Conservatives representing an autocracy-curious fringe minority have set their sights on making democracy a mockery. In Jesus’s name.
Or in Donald’s. They’re not sure.
Take them seriously. David Neiwert (“Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us” and “Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump“) noted Wednesday night that he’d warned nine years ago that its crackdown on LGBTQ rights signaled Russia’s descent into fascism. “Me too!” chimed in Jeff Sharlet (“The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power” and the upcoming “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War“).
Revanchists want to put women back in their places. They won’t stop with women, a majority in this country. Every minority not on Team Theocracy is wearing a judicial target on their backs, or worse. We’ve only been warning about the New Apostolic Reformation and its “seven mountains mandate” here for over a decade.
“It’s hard to know what will happen if these people begin to exert even stronger influence over the Republican party in a time of great stress and transition in this country,” Digby wrote in 2010.
Now we do.
What are you going to do about it?
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