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"The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it, perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be 'restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.'"How I have longed for a Supreme Court free of the influence of politics.
--Democrat Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
Justices who read what The Constitution says and makes rulings regardless of the political fallout from those rulings?
Sign me up!
But the "honorable" senators from the blue states might not like that much.
I'd not be very far out on a limb to suggest that 80% of what our government does is not authorized by The Constitution.
Since it's an approaching ruling on the draconic gun laws of New Fucking York Spit City that appears to have triggered this threat: The idea of an apolitical Court taking "shall not be infringed" seriously and in the spirit of the day it was written appeals to me a lot.
Bring it, Dems!
Oh, Roe v Wade is going to be re-ruled by such and apolitical court too. Nobody is going to like how that shakes out if you look hard at what Government is allowed to do Constitutionally.
Contrary to some people's hysterical predictions, the Supremes overturning Roe vs. Wade wouldn't outlaw abortion. Abortion would be once again under the aegis of the several states. And no, it wouldn't be The (STUPID) Handmaid's Tale in real life! I'm old enough to remember delivering papers that announced Roe vs. Wade, and life before it was not a mysogynistic hell! (You young snapperwhippers! Get off on my lawn! Kids these days...*grumble*)
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