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United States: “The power of judges”

2022-06-24T18:01:03.145Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Philippe Gélie. The noisy parliamentary hearings on the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol are not the place to look for the true legacy of Donald Trump's presidency. This has just erupted in two resounding decisions of the Supreme Court: Thursday, a considerable strengthening of the individual right to be armed and, Friday, the repeal of the constitutional right to abortion. This latest earthquake represents


The noisy parliamentary hearings on the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol are not the place to look for the true legacy of Donald Trump's presidency.

This has just erupted in two resounding decisions of the Supreme Court: Thursday, a considerable strengthening of the individual right to be armed and, Friday, the repeal of the constitutional right to abortion.

This latest earthquake represents a major victory for American religious conservatism, the culmination of a long-term project of which the former tenant of the White House - however a strange parishioner - had made himself the obligated agent by virtue of a pact made with the Christian right.

The theme of the midterm elections is all found

President Joe Biden and the majority of Congress may be Democrats, but the power held in the United States by nine judges appointed for life supersedes theirs.

Trump had been able to appoint three, selecting them on their “originalist” doctrine (a literal reading of the Constitution) and their convictions…

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Source: lefigaro

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