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U.S. Supreme Court Conservatives have the right to exhaust liberals Anti-establishment sentiment intensifies

2022-07-07T10:05:32.824Z


Abortion laws across the U.S. have been thrown into chaos after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 overturned the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion in Roe v. Wade. Democrats with Republican states


Abortion laws across the U.S. have been thrown into chaos after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 overturned the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion in Roe v. Wade.

Democratic district attorneys in some Republican states refuse to enforce laws restricting abortion; some abortion laws that are more than 100 years old are suddenly reinstated because they are no longer unconstitutional; many conservative states have multiple contradictory laws restricting abortion, and no one Know which one applies.

Judges in states from Texas to Utah have suspended some abortion laws, while others have allowed similar laws to go into effect.


This chaos is the predictable consequence of the sudden overthrow of constitutional guarantees that had been established for half a century.

Regardless of whether the U.S. Constitution, which does not explicitly mention abortion, contains the guarantee of the right to abortion, the instant dismantling of such a legal system that has been in operation since 1973, in the conservative spirit of the common law, is often a kind of "if not necessary" action to be avoided.

However, after the Supreme Court's conservative justices occupy a large majority, it seems that this legal conservative spirit is no longer scrutinized.

Now that abortion rights have been overturned, protests have been provoked every day across the United States, and the Supreme Court's popularity has fallen to its lowest level in five decades (25%).

The dispute will continue in another form after courts leave the power to regulate abortion to the states.

Should we ban people from interstate abortions?

How can women be banned from self-medicating abortions?

Trump-era Vice President Mike Pence has even claimed to take advantage of the failure of abortion rights to push for a nationwide abortion ban in Congress.

Since the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling that guaranteed abortion rights, protests across the United States have been proliferating.

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Liberals are helpless about the Supreme Court decision.

The Senate has a 60-seat anti-Raab threshold, making it almost impossible for any single party to pass legislation; executive power is also difficult to control state laws.

The courts seem to be the only department in the United States that can exercise power effectively, and that department is firmly in the hands of conservatives.

What's more, taking back abortion rights isn't the only controversial move by conservative justices.

On gun rights, conservative judges, including John Roberts, used the same "text and history" approach to overturn the state of New York with gun barrels that were largely unconstitutional in the 19th century. 109-year-old concealed gun-carrying regulation — ironically, the rare bipartisan gun-barrel legislation that has just passed Congress includes a program that restricts personal gun ownership based on records of domestic violence It is unheard of, and by this logic it also seems unconstitutional.

On the issue of separation of church and state, the conservative judges have actually strengthened the previous precedent that the government "can" fund religious education, requiring the government to "must" fund the same amount of religious education while subsidizing secular education; In the face of the separation of church and state, they also clearly stood on the side of religious freedom, ruling that a public school coach who was fired for leading students to pray together after an American football game won the case.

On the issue of government regulatory powers, conservative judges cited the so-called "major issues doctrine" in response to repealed Obama-era environmental policies—that is, if congressional legislation is intended to allow the executive branch to make decisions on major economic and political issues, It must be clearly stated—it is determined that the executive branch cannot rely solely on the mandate of the "Best Reduction System" in the Clean Air Act of 1963 to enforce industry-wide carbon regulation that is not specified in the Act.

At a time when Congress has almost come to a standstill due to partisan differences in recent years, this ruling not only blocks the proposal of the Biden administration to implement climate policies, but also greatly limits executive power at various levels such as health control, and plunges the United States into a more serious failure of governance.

Democratic progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has advocated for Congress to impeach conservative Supreme Court justices.

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With such a conservative Supreme Court exhausted, liberal calls for change to the American system can only be expected to grow louder.

Democratic progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has advocated for Congress to impeach a conservative Supreme Court justice.

Even Biden, who has always supported the existing system in Congress, has also indicated that he will support the repeal of the Senate's anti-Raab threshold in legislation to protect abortion rights.

If conservative justices continue their judicial agitation, further withdrawing or limiting other human rights guarantees, and advancing conservative political goals, a new wave of revolutionary street protests will not be possible at a time when Congress is incompetent and the White House has no power to block the courts. avoid.

During the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, although the street protests were fierce, the people on the street still had the support of the liberal Supreme Court and somewhat idealistic rulers.

Today, however, the courts have become the driving force of the struggle, and those in power are incompetent and powerless.

If a new wave of the civil rights movement does break out, its confrontation may be even more intense than it was then.

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