Trump has sown, conservatives are reaping: the top US has forgotten what it was founded for and abandoned the weak

In the past, the Supreme Court has declared that the courts "are a refuge for those who suffer because they are helpless and weak."

But after ruling in favor of expanding the right to bear arms, confirming that religious schools would use public funds and making the right to abortion illegal, it seems that politics has taken over completely

Tali Goldstein

24/06/2022

Friday, June 24, 2022, 9:45 p.m.

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In the video: Demonstrations by abortion supporters across the US (Photo: Reuters)

In June 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a law restricting abortions in the state of Louisiana by a majority of five to four.

Conservative Judge John Roberts then chose to vote with the Liberals.

That was before Liberal Judge Ruth Bader Ginzburg died in September of that year.

The replacement, Judge Amy Connie Barrett, a Conservative appointed by former President Donald Trump at the last minute, was already known for her opposition to "abortion on demand," as she calls it, and by joining it actually changed the dynamics of the Supreme Court and the balance of power for conservatives for years Many ahead.

Following her appointment to the court, the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization in abortion and free choice, said any appointment of a new conservative judge to the Supreme Court would be "destructive to women's sexual health and fertility rights."

And he was right.

Today (Friday) the Supreme Court, led by Barrett, overturned the historic 1973 ruling that granted the right to abortion across the country to all women - and damaged the pen of millions of women and the image of the United States worldwide as a symbol of democracy and freedom of choice.

Barrett's hearing

In the video: Hearing to approve Judge Barrett's appointment to the Supreme Court (Photo: Reuters)

Barrett was born in 1972 in Louisiana to a devout Catholic family of seven children, and even attended a Catholic high school for girls only in New Orleans.

During her career, she was described as the "patroness" of the late Judge Antonin Scalia, who was once considered the intellectual anchor of the textualist and originalist position - a position that argues that cases should be adjudicated in the spirit of the Constitution without taking into account changing times - in the Conservative Supreme Court.

The judge, a 48-year-old law professor, has previously served as a lecturer at the University of Notre Dame and considers herself a devout Catholic, a fact that was a point of contention even during the 2017 Trump Appeals Court hearing of her appointment.

Regarding the issue of the right to abortion, Barrett has previously argued that you are still in dispute today across America and that many disagreements remain about it.

She argued that because of this, Roe v. Wade may not be appropriate to be a "super-precedent," that is, a precedent that the Supreme Court can never reverse.

She said these things while she was a candidate for the Supreme Court in 2020, so it is no surprise that she voted against her today.

Her views on abortion and same-sex marriage made her popular with the religious right and drew fierce opposition from the liberal camp.

It also supports the right to bear arms and opposes immigration.

Popular among the religious right in the US. Amy Connie Barrett (Photo: AP, AP)

Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that Roe's 1973 ruling against Wade has been overturned, Barrett's appointment seems to have paid off for the Conservative right-wing camp, as has his decision to continue to stick with Trump, who pledged in his presidential campaign to appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court.

The term of office of the judges, appointed by the President of the United States and approved by the Senate, is for life, unless they are removed from office in the process of dismissal carried out by the House of Representatives or passing away.

However, Barrett alone cannot be blamed for the conservative rulings of the Supreme Court, which only yesterday ruled to extend the right to bear arms in the United States when it became law in the state of New York that restricted that right.

The transformation of this institution into an increasingly political and biased one towards the Republican Party and its agendas is a decades-long process.

Trump accelerated the process by appointing two conservative justices who were perceived as loyal to him and his way, during his tenure.

"Shelter for the Sufferers"

In the past, the Supreme Court has declared that the courts "are a refuge for those who suffer because they are helpless and weak."

Indeed, in 1969-1953, the "Golden Age of the Court," Earl Warren, a Republican who was a Republican but tirelessly active in promoting civil rights, served as Supreme Court President.

During his tenure, some of the most important laws in the field of civil rights were enacted in the United States, such as the warning of Miranda (called for detainees), the abolition of racial segregation in schools, and so on

. Earl Warren resigned at the same time, and

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appointed Conservative Warren Berger as chief justice, and from that moment until today, for 50 years, a majority of conservative judges has been on the Supreme Court, and his view has grown in favor of the Republican political agenda.

Only conservative judges served as Supreme President. Since 1972, a conservative majority has also been maintained among the judges.

Demonstration in favor of the right to abortion.

Today (Photo: Reuters)

During the Trump era, the trend continued more vigorously.

The then Republican majority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, who is considered the executor of the appointment of judges, twice changed the rules of the Senate debate to speed up the appointment procedures of conservative judges despite Democrat opposition.

In the spring of 2016, when former President Barack Obama sought to appoint the liberal Merrick Garland as a judge in place of the conservative Scalia who passed away, McConnell insisted that he wait until the November presidential election - a gamble that paid off when Trump won and appointed Conservative Judge Neil Gorsch instead.

In 2020, Trump got another chance when Bader Ginzburg passed away, appointing Barrett.

After ruling in favor of extending the right to bear arms, revoking the right to abortion and ruling that religious schools can use public funds earmarked for secular institutions in the country - some estimate that the Supreme Court is now considering drawing attention to the issue of same-sex marriage.

At the end of the day, the Supreme Court, already seen by many in the United States as suspected of political bias, seems to miss no opportunity to prove that it is indeed a political tool of the Conservative camp and the Republican Party - and that there may be justification for losing public confidence in it.

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