On 27-09-2020 00:05, John Clark wrote:
The new US supreme court nominee will be Amy Coney Barrett, and she is
just the sort of person you would expect, a religious crockpot. She is
a member of an extreme right wing Catholic cult called "The People of
Praise"; they speak in tongues, believe in biblical prophecy, and in
divine healing. Members of the cult swear a lifetime oath of
allegiance to one another and are assigned a ideology coach called a
“head” for men and a “HANDMAID” for women to make sure nobody
strays from the official dogma. The "heads" and "handmaids" issue
orders on who to date, who to marry, where to live, whether to take a
job, whether to buy a home, and how to raise children. Part of the
ideology of People of Praise is that husbands should give orders to
their wives and only men should have authority over the family.
During her confirmation hearing in 2017 to be a federal judge Barrett
said "_I take my faith seriously and I’m a faithful Catholic_". In
2013 she said: "_I tend to agree with those who say that a Justice’s
duty is to the Constitution and that it is thus more legitimate for
her to enforce her best understanding of the Constitution rather than
a precedent she thinks clearly in conflict with it_"; and as a judge
she approved a Indiana law banning abortions of a deformed fetus
(although her opinion was later overturned by a higher court and the
Indiana law ruled unconstitutional). So when she is approved Roe v.
Wade Will be as dead as a doornail and we're back to the 1950's and
coathanger abortions. Barrett also criticized Chief Justice Roberts
for his opinion that saved Obama’s Affordable Care Act; so in the
middle of a global pandemic the health care coverage of tens of
millions of people will be as dead as a doornail too when she hears
her first case on October 10.
To those who claim Barrett's religious views will not effect her legal
opinions I will remind you that in 2006 she said “_If you can keep
in mind that your fundamental purpose in life is not to be a lawyer,
but to know, love and serve God, you truly will be a different kind of
lawyer._” Amy Coney Barret would also be the youngest justice on the
bench, so she could be around for many decades.
John K Clark
It's now up to the US population to vote the GOP out of office, so that
the Democrats get control over both the Senate and the House. The Senate
can then abolish the filibuster, giving them the room to pack the
SCOTUS. The mere threat of packing the SCOTUS can be enough for the
SCOTUS to stick to the law and not make political rulings. The Democrats
can also make laws explicitly legalizing abortion and making Obamacare
immune to getting overturned on legal technicalities. For example, they
can replace the individual mandate by a tax, so that SCOTUS does not
have to consider whether it's proper to interpret the individual mandate
as a tax.
If the Congress removes legal ambiguities the conservatives have raised,
and the law still gets overturned, then it's clear that the real problem
lies not with purely legal issues but with the SCOTUS acting as an
unelected secondary Senate, the remedy for that is to pack the SCOTUS
with non-political Justices and perhaps also to start impeaching
Justices who are incapable of keeping their political preferences out of
their legal opinions.
Saibal
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