The current corrupt Supreme courts days should be numbered.

As reported by the Melbourne AGE today...

The United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark
1973 decision which recognised Americans' constitutional right to abortion and
legalised it  nationwide, handing a momentous victory to Republicans and religious
conservatives

who want to limit or ban the procedure.  The court, in a 6-3 ruling, upheld a
Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks.

The majority of justices found Roe v Wade was wrongly decided because the
US constitution makes no specific mention of abortion.

It will now be up to individual states to decide if abortion is legal.

A draft version of the ruling written by conservative Justice Samuel Alito indicating
the court was likely to overturn Roe v Wade was leaked in May, igniting a political
firestorm.

"The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly
protected by any constitutional provision," Mr Alito wrote in the ruling.

Roe v Wade recognised that the right to personal privacy under the US Constitution
protected a woman's ability to terminate her pregnancy. The Supreme Court in a 1992
ruling called Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v Casey reaffirmed
abortion rights and prohibited laws imposing an "undue burden" on abortion access.

"Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak,
and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a
national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have inflamed debate and
deepened  division," Mr Alito added.
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—Is this the beginning of the end for American democracy?  The Bush-appointed Alito
has been one of the most rabid of the right-wing Republicans to sit on the SCOTUS. 
He's been on the bench for too long at 17 years, and is too old for the job at 72 years.
Alito's entire term on the Court has been one of disruption and divisiveness, with a
total lack of bipartisan thought.

A central tenet of the SCOTUS jurisprudence is stare decisis, that once  the Court
has ruled on something, it is settled law and is entitled to permanence,  even if
later courts may disagree with it. That is particularly true where you have a  50-year
long established precedent like Roe.

Alito and the four justices who are reportedly ready to rule with him are sending the
Supreme Court down that same slippery slope. And they are sending a dangerous
message: If Roe can be tossed out, then any Supreme Court precedent is in jeopardy.

As this unfolds, it will be quite a ride: support for Roe v Wade has been consistent over the decades. That can't be ignored.

The two most recent additions to the SCOTUS publicly stated that:

Amy Coney Barret in confirmation hearing: "Cases [like Roe] are so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling."

So she and Kavanaugh lied.

The women's movement has just been reinvigorated as has the Democratic Party.

In the short term, this is a win for the GOP. In the long run they lose.

Mortdooley wrote on Jun 25^th, 2022 at 1:00am:


The same SCOTUS that said yesterday that states don’t have the ability to regulate guns today gave states the power to regulate women’s bodies.

BREAKING: Clarence Thomas just filed a concurring opinion to Dobbs calling for the court to consider overturning the right to contraception, same-sex marriage, and privacy in the bedroom.

Pence is calling for a national abortion ban. Cuntslices like Morty and Panther always thought this was a "State's Right" issue. So laf.

USA, land of the hypocrites.