Posted on 06/15/2024 5:09:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
After several decades of conservative control of the Supreme Court and a string of rulings against their legislative and social priorities, Democrats and left-leaning media appear to be mounting an all-out assault against the judicial branch, casting doubt on its legitimacy and impartiality, while working to undercut the reputations and credibility of its more conservative justices.
Ostensibly conservative since the appointment of Chief Justice William Rehnquist in 1986, the court has generally not attracted comparable partisan scrutiny to the extent that it has under the Biden administration. The Roberts court, however, currently boasts three justices appointed by former President Donald Trump, who have solidified the court’s conservative character and handed conservatives decades-sought wins on abortion, gun rights, and affirmative action.
On Friday, for instance, the court ruled 6-3 against an administrative restriction from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) that banned devices attached to semi-automatic weapons that improve their rate of fire, generally known as "bump stocks." The ruling marked a win for Second Amendment advocates.
Far from an isolated incident, Supreme Court rulings have in recent years have managed to overturn decades-long practices and even long-standing precedents that favored left-wing politics. Said decisions have set off a firestorm of criticisms against the court as an institution, both of its power and ideological leaning, as well as the justices themselves. The Democrats and left-wing activists have expanded public criticism of the justices, formerly a rare occurrence, and have pursued legislative curbs on the court while some justices have even seen journalists release of private recordings of their conversations.
Conservative court wins
Apart from the bump stock case on Friday, the current court has handed down a number of landmark cases, most notably the Dobbs v. Jackson decision in 2022 that overturned the constitutional precedent establishing a federal right to abortion set...
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obviously this is a direct assault on the US Constitution and that’s treason. Round them up and prosecute them for that crime of treason and give them the death penalty.
lol
Democrats always have a sinister Plan B.
What is illegitimate is announcing a “Constitutional” right that is nowhere stated in the Constitution, and going into great detail describing the “right” that is not found in the Constitution. Then, claiming that the Dobbs decision, which put the abortion question back to the representative State legislatures, constitutes a “threat to our democracy.”
I hardly say its a conservative court. Its a 4-2-3 court.
Last night on the local TV news, Governor Jay Dimslee (WA-D) commented on the bump stock decison by saying the phrase “Trump Supreme Court” 6 times in a 30 second sound bite
The quote I like was from an Indiana Democrat during the FDR years: “This is more power than a good man should want, or a bad man should have.”
Shows how little they care for the constitutional order, unless it suits their agenda.
Kavanaugh, Roberts and ACB are moderates.
Regardless how you break it down, its not a conservative court.
They keep attacking sacred institutions with their warped political ideology, and fewer and fewer are buying it.
The Left is losing, they have no plan, only vandalism and theft.
The left keeps attacking our sacred iinstitutions with their warped ideology and fewer and fewer are buying it.
They have no plan, just vandalism and theft. They offer nothing except to tear down the greatest nation ever conceived. Wherever they are in control the cities turn to hellscapes.
I’m waiting for the democrats to cancel the election and declare the constitution null and void.
” A lot of what goes on in this site presumes that electing Trump, or electing Republicans, will confer the same power on our government that has been exercised by the left over our protestations for decades. “
Correct. And the fallback from when that fails is a “New Party”, which the UK is doing right now in Reform.
I can tell you from the Canadian experience is that the effect is temporary. The incentives to become a Containment Party of Regime “conservatives” means that the “new” party quickly becomes like the old party it replaced.
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