That’s why liberals reduce their “carbon footprints,” even though that concept is a neo-liberal scam, invented by British Petroleum to dodge collective responsibility for climate change and place it on individuals instead.
We like to do things that give ourselves the illusion of power. Of course, I’m sure liberals will hold marches, because that’s what we like to do. And that those very rights were at stake in 2016, and again in the Senate elections of 2018, and again in 2020, and again in the Senate elections this year. They should have arm-twisted their Jill Stein friends, and let their Republican relatives know that, hey, women are people and shouldn’t be forced by the government to carry a fetus (or a blastocyst, or an embryo) inside of their womb. What liberals should have done in 2016 was ensure that a Democrat won the oval office.
“My family will not be protected by the Constitution two years from now. I’m not sure where that leaves my custody of my child, but I can tell you that I am certain that my family will not be protected by the Constitution two years from now. The only question is whether Republicans will have a veto-proof majority (or the presidency in 2024) to ban both abortion and gay marriage anywhere in the nation. Unless another justice leaves the court, the constitutional right to marriage for all is going to be overturned. So, in case folks weren’t listening when all those legal Cassandras warned that Roe was going to be overturned, please listen now: Gay marriage is too. He specifically mentioned Obergefell and Lawrence as examples of the same faulty reasoning behind Roe. To be clear, Justice Alito didn’t leave this to speculation. Sorry, women and gays, you’re not part of our white-male-dominated history and traditions, so the constitution doesn’t protect you. There are limits to government power, and no process can be “due process” if it transgresses those limits.īut in so-called Originalism, a once-fringe legal theory that is now the gospel of half the Supreme Court, a right must also be “part of the Nation’s history and traditions” to be protected. It’s too fucking late.”Īll those cases held that certain specific rights to bodily integrity and privacy, though unmentioned in the Constitution, are implicit in the broad guarantees of the 14th Amendment, as long as they were part of the “concept of ordered liberty.” It’s not part of the concept of liberty to police a woman’s uterus or a gay man’s bedroom. “What can liberals do now? Not much, really. Even after the unprecedented and norm-shattering mistreatment of judicial nominee Merrick Garland, many centrist voters didn’t care and some left-wing voters didn’t think it was enough to stomach voting for Hillary Clinton. The Supreme Court ranked at the bottom of Democrats’ concerns in 2016, while it was at the top of Republicans’. And now it is here.īut “you”-by which I mean the large majority of voters who say that women have a right to control their own bodies-didn’t listen. So, yes, we all told you this was inevitable. Together with desegregation, it propelled the Religious Right to get into politics 50 years ago, and vote for Republicans ever since. It was the primary criterion that the Federalist Society, funded by religious extremists, used to pick Supreme Court justices for Donald Trump. Overturning Roe is in the Republican Party’s platform. And not just me, of course, but everyone in my profession. Not only am I unsurprised-I predicted it, several times, in this publication. Wade, authored by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, that was leaked to Politico. I am approximately zero percent surprised by the draft opinion overturning Roe v.