12-04-2021, 09:06 PM
(12-04-2021, 03:01 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: It's known that I am pro-choice. That being said these blatant attempts to tar the court politically to strong arm them into a certain decision are as dangerous to the fabric of our democracy as anything Trump ever did, it's just a bit more subtle. From Schumer flat out threatening the court;
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/rare-rebuke-chief-justice-roberts-slams-schumer-threatening-comments-n1150036
to Sotomayor's recent comments, to Robert Reich's typical garbage;
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/03/no-doubt-us-supreme-court-partisan-hacks
it's all text book strong arm tactics. As the article in OP states, Roe could easily be seen as judicial activism as well.
Also, for clarification purposes, what is at stake in the Mississippi law is that they set the cut off line at 15 weeks instead of 23 or 24 weeks. Which begs the obvious question, why is 24 weeks ok but 15 is not? Playing devil's advocate, is four months, or more realistically three as a woman may not realize she is pregnant right away, not enough time to come to a decision on whether to have an abortion or not? So regardless of the decision in this case Roe is at no risk of being struck down. Now the Texas law is a completely different matter, but it's also not the topic at hand.
I think the reason some of the judges are being attacked is because during one of their confirmations, they sold themselves as letting lying dogs lie, but now they're talking like they have no issues overturning long standing rulings for...reasons? And the other one should be recusing themselves due to long standing religious beliefs getting in the way of their ability to be impartial.
