SCOTUS has finally done it. Roe is struck down. That was today. Yesterday, they struck down New York's ability to regulate who can/can't concealed carry in public.
There's "just a tad" of irony in their reasoning. For New York, the issue is too important for a state to have control over the law. In other words, no states rights. For Roe, the issue is too important for the nation to control it, let the states make their individual decisions.
In case anybody at all is in doubt, if you didn't bother to vote for Hillary in 2016, this falls on you. Obama's right/duty to choose Justices was thwarted by Mitch (Moscow Mitch) McConnell by delaying making a decision through the Senate until after his term was over. When Trump took over, he usurped the power of selecting that Justice, and also chose two more. The last one was while the election was still being voted on which kicked him out of power, a months' shorter time before he left office than was the excuse McConnell gave for delaying a vote on Obama's choice.
Note that it wasn't "just" a case of dates. Trump's choices were rushed through without sufficient investigation. Justice Beer, for example, was seated after a history of rapes, supposedly during drunken blackouts. He committed perjury in denying those, and the 25,000 or so tips to the FBI got lost somewhere, never checked out, undoubtedly at Trump's direction to send them all to the White House. There were also perjuries committed by potential justices who flat out stated the importance to them of stare decisis, when all the while they were salivating at the opportunity of overturning all kinds of precedents from previous rulings.
Hillary would never have appointed that kind of person. We'd not be where we are right now if you had bothered to vote and made it count towards saving democracy. Who knows what rights will be struck down next? Birth control? Interracial marriage? Voting rights protections? Rights for LGBTQ people, including marriage? Rights for workplace protections, from safety to pay and benefits? Rights to fight climate change? All are under attack right now. Miranda was just eviscerated - the cops don't have to tell you anything! Better now to just tell them nothing at all until you speak to your lawyer, regardless.
How about freedom of religion? That's already been proven to be under attack. A small minority of us, due to their religious principals, have already taken away those protections in rulings for public funds supporting religious schools, rulings against abortion, rulings against gun regulations. My particular religious beliefs support none of that. Their religions are forcing their unpopular views on the country as a whole. Every announcement this last week or so has been another blow. What's next? Which of your rights will be taken away next?
If you think that's fear mongering, just stick your head in the news for a few minutes and see what is already happening. Then take a look at the worst of the last century and follow how that was eased into, amidst people not paying attention until it was too late. And then, get your asses to the polls and vote for everybody's rights, for saving our democracy. Even if just this one time, when we teeter on the brink, vote BLUE!
NO EXCUSES !
And no ridiculous blaming Biden for high gas prices which are caused by a war a continent away, ya hear? He doesn't control Putin. He also doesn't need to support a pipeline which has the sole purpose of sending Canadian oil through the US to a port for export to other countries. He doesn't need to approve more oil leases when (1) there are around 9000 of them already sitting unused and (2) we need to wind down burning petroleum and switch to renewable, non polluting energy to at least try to keep this planet as a place where we can survive.
NO EXCUSES!
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