Born N Bled Red
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Yeah, ok, if the conservative majority wasn't talking out of both sides of the collective arses on back to back days, that may be an interpretation. But one day they argued States did not have the power to address gun rights, the next day States are the only place to decide abortion rights. More cognitive dissonance and in doing so, they overturned more than 150 years of established case law. The Supreme Court was established to run on precedent. Established law informing New law and unusual legal circumstances. You want a group that will just do what they feel because they feel it, go to your local city council meeting. The Supreme Court is supposed to be the stabile that maintains the turbulence of congress and the presidency that is why they are lifetime appointments. Overturning 150 years of precedence should not happen like this.The Bold: True. Roe V Wade was judicial activism to its fullest extent. The current court reacted in a like wise manner. Or did they just go back to the constitution? In some ways we have an Orwellian thing going on here. The court threw the whole issue back to the states and the people of the state (state legislatures and governors being the people's representatives) to decide. The court honored the 10th amendment - rights not expressly given to the federal govt are given to the states to decide. They did not hold that the 14th amendment was intended to address this issue. It seems that the court in 1973 took this right away from the people(each state) and by judicial overreach made a decision that was not in their constitutional wheelhouse to make. But now we hear that this conservative court is an activist court when they turn back to the constitution to give back to the people (via the state reps) the power that was meant for the states to have. There is an olive branch to the Pro-choice group however: they can harness the will of the people and their representatives by working on a constitutional amendment or other federal legislation that could have similar affect if that is possible (I'm not a constitutional scholar so :dunno just my gut feeling that there are remedies). Of course a future court of more liberal justices can correct what is perceived to be an error by this court. This remedy can all start with the 2022 mid-term elections. Let's see what happens.