Thursday, July 21, 2022

The neofascist SCOTUS assault on U.S. citizens' Constitutional rights

 The now on balance neofascist United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade last month and continued the vicious assault on the rights of U.S. citizens striking down a New York law that stood for a century limiting who could carry a concealed weapon in public (the right-wing, cowardly justices waited to release the opinion as several more mass shootings took place in Buffalo and Uvalde).  The neofascist majority also ruled that anyone who is arrested and not told their Miranda rights (the right to remain silent) cannot thereafter sue police for violation of their 5th Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

It is long past time to reform one of the most unaccountable and undemocratic institutions in the federal government, specifically and intentionally designed as such.  In no reasonable sense ought an on balance neofascist court be stacked by GQP presidents who lost the popular vote, but nevertheless secured the slave states' compromise of the electoral college thereby undermining the popular will and enforcing a tyranny of the minority.  If these ludicrous life-time appointments are not altered to specific term-limits and if the number of seats on the SCOTUS isn’t expanded to correct for the couple of seats recently stolen by the GQP and to account for the number of circuit courts, then the neofascist wrecking-ball that is the current SCOTUS will continue to damage the United States and the Constitutional law upon which it is supposed to be predicated.  

The neofascist SCOTUS has indicated that other Constitutional rights previously upheld by the SCOTUS itself are likely to be overturned such as marriage equality and even contraceptive rights.  If the Biden-Harris White House doesn't move to get Congress to act then the administration may well turn out to be a weak holding action merely occupying the White House in between GQP administrations, extending echoes of their right-wing imperialist foreign policies, and could too easily usher in the fascists proper.