This court opinion will have a cascade effect on every liberal decision of the court in the last 50 years or more. This day has been coming, forced by extremists who have been stacking the bench for years, waiting for the moment when the majority was in their favor, and allowed by politicians on both sides of the aisle who are either too weak or too scared to stop it.
These four justices are effectively in place via minority rule and they now have the power to overturn rights supported by a vast majority of Americans.Ī series of breakdowns in our democracy, all executed in the light of day, have led to this terrible moment. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were nominated by former President Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote in 2016. Bush, who lost the popular vote the first time he ran in the 2000 presidential election. “None of these rights has any claim to being deeply rooted in history,” Alito wrote.Īlito was nominated to the court by former President George W. Texas (the right to engage in private, consensual sexual acts), among many others. Hodges (the right to marry a person of the same sex) and Lawrence v. Nebraska, (the right not to be sterilized without consent), Obergefell v. Virginia (guaranteeing the right of interracial marriage), Meyer v. But it’s merely the beginning.Īlito explicitly mentions the cases of Loving v. I thought of my great-grandmother, Daisy, who was born before women had the right to vote.īy Tuesday morning, the court had confirmed the authenticity of the draft document that was first reported by Politico, and is an unprecedented leak of a majority draft opinion. I thought of my grandmother, Helen, who was trapped in an abusive marriage when it was entirely legal to rape your wife.
I thought of my mother, Cindy, who couldn’t have her own checking account until after she was married. I thought of all the people I know now who had an abortion in California, including some of my best friends, who are now safe and well because of that care. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that enshrined a right to legal abortion, could be overturned by a conservative U.S. My mind was racing at the news that Roe v.
On Monday night, I lulled myself to sleep by reading articles on how to safely induce an abortion without medical intervention.