C8 wrote:I don't have a dog in this fight re: abortion but if someone really believes in democracy they should be cheering this court. On almost every decision the court is returning decision making to Congress or the states where voters can elect those who share the views of the people.
That strikes me as a perfectly valid view, given the current court and divisions in the US. So let it play out for awhile, and we'll see what happens. I am curious as to whether or not reasonable states, not say the rabid Qanon MURIKA!!! men rule! types, or alternatively the woke, everyone gets an A+ on tests, learn the politically current gender bending pronouns and for God's sake don't even say the word "gun", end up with an economic advantage because of having a balanced approach to how they distribute "freedoms" and "rights".
Companies relocate, business is encouraged without fear of reprisal for not toeing the local political rules, going to church on Sunday isn't mandated any more than the requirement to be Christian, etc etc.
C8 wrote:You really have to do great twists of logic to accuse this court of being anti-democratic.
Not a claim I've made. But I would say that they are now, officially and proud of it, political. Arguably, the pendulum has swung the other way from the "let's make up new rights!" courts of the 70's.
C8 wrote:You should be more worried about the liberal justices. In every decision the past 20 years they have voted to concentrate power in the hands of un-elected lower courts and federal bureaucrats. They voted that CDC bureaucrats had total and unchecked authority to prevent landlords from evicting tenets to stop the spread of Covid- that is an incredible amount of power.
Yup, it strikes me that there is fear at either ends of the pendulum swing.
C8 wrote:When liberal justices become the majority, then you will see the end of democracy.
Apparently not, because that's the court from about the 70's to the beginning of this century, and democracy (sort of) is still here. I think the recent demonstration of democracy almost ending had nothing to do with the courts, but just an idiots attempt at a coup. Nothing has come close to that before, other than the Civil War. And from the southern racist contingents point of view, that was all about State's Rights, not slavery.
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