Justices cheered at conservative group’s anniversary dinner

Geeko Sportivo said:
Trump thought it was the Supremacist Court- so he only appointed White Supremacists!

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/supreme-courts-originalism-white-supremacy-rcna36409

Even as the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court was sworn in, the slate of rulings from the newly empowered, right-wing and originalist court majority this term has made it clearer than ever that the court is motivated by a reliance on the white supremacist patriarchy of the Constitution’s framers.

With Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the court has signaled its desire to “make America great again” using 18th and 19th century standards to address modern problems. Specifically, these rulings rely heavily on a judicial philosophy called originalism, which argues that in interpreting the Constitution, we must hold the intent — i.e., the thought processes of the framers — above all else.

Originalist judges express a belief that we should interpret the U.S. Constitution according to the legal opinions of 18th century white men.

In other words, in those decisions, originalist judges express a belief that we should interpret the U.S. Constitution according to the legal opinions of 18th century white men — the same white men who denied the right to vote or own property to anyone but themselves.

But I would submit that the reason that such a judicial view is not only possible, but also predominant, among our highest jurists is because so few of us white men (and increasingly, white women) have been willing, over these last centuries, to question our inheritance of historic American privilege.

Originalism is patriarchal white supremacy.

The debates surrounding the framing of the Constitution reveal fraught compromises between the rich white men balancing the interests of the states with the interests of the union. The delegates from my home state of South Carolina, for example, used a tortured, self-serving rationale to justify their continued importation of enslaved people from Africa.

“If Slavery be wrong, it is justified by the example of all the world,” Charles Pinckney, a Revolutionary War hero and a member of South Carolina’s delegation to the convention — and a slaveholder — said, per a New York Times account. “An attempt to take away the right, as proposed, will produce serious objections to the Constitution.”

The framers ultimately reached a compromise where the importation of enslaved people would face a sunset clause, but would not be immediately outlawed. And thus the domestic trade in enslaved people — and the political empowerment of those who enslaved them — was enshrined in the nation’s founding document.

Originalists feel no such shame. When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, we no longer had to consider what the framers said about the issue, the originalists argue, because the amendment superseded the original intent.

But it is impossible to sever a man like Pinckney’s thoughts on slavery from the rest of his worldview — especially someone who grew up in a place like Charleston, a onetime heart of the nation’s slave trade, and on a plantation surrounded by people over whom his family exacted absolute control in order to extract absolute value.

Even if we allow that the Constitution was eventually amended to undo Pinckney’s monstrous beliefs about who was a human, it is hard to trust any argument that relies on his or his contemporaries' intent, none of whom could have envisioned Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Though Justice Clarence Thomas is also descended from those enslaved by the founders, he has long been one of the court’s most staunch originalists — though now, following then-President Donald Trump’s appointees, he has a lot more competition.
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Riiiiiiiight!!!!!! Pigmentation when youre picking is better right? Like your vp right parts right color. You're an imbecile
 
AProudLefty said:
In other words, both women and men must abstain until they are married and be ready to have babies.
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I didn't say that, did I? I said, very simply, that they have a right to choose consensual sex KNOWING that pregnancy is a possibility. There are various forms of birth control out there to use.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
I didn't say that, did I? I said, very simply, that they have a right to choose consensual sex KNOWING that pregnancy is a possibility. There are various forms of birth control out there to use.
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I guess you are confused. You were talking about rape. Now you are talking about something different.
 
AProudLefty said:
By women? Agreed.
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Republicans are such hypocrites. You know that if Kari Lake or Ted Cruz's daughter was raped and impregnated, they'd put her on a plane to a blue state and get that fetus aborted right quick.

Anti-abortion has nothing to do with saving lives and everything to do with enslaving the poor. The Nazis need a "surf" class so they have someone to clean their homes and raise their children.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
I will not entertain you in your obtuseness. you know what you did or you do not qualify as an adult to be on this board.
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The............... topic................ was.................... about.................. abortion..................... not........................ rape.............................. which........................... was ............................ started.......................... by.......................... someone....................... else.............................. and.......................... you............................ replied........................... with.......................... a ............................ retarded.......................... post.

Is that slow enough for you?
 
AProudLefty said:
The............... topic................ was.................... about.................. abortion..................... not........................ rape.............................. which........................... was ............................ started.......................... by.......................... someone....................... else.............................. and.......................... you............................ replied........................... with.......................... a ............................ retarded.......................... post.

Is that slow enough for you?
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the speed at which you post excuses does not change the fact that you're being obtuse. you CLAIM you were talking about abortion, then you switched to forcing decisions upon women, which would classify as rape.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
the speed at which you post excuses does not change the fact that you're being obtuse. you CLAIM you were talking about abortion, then you switched to forcing decisions upon women, which would classify as rape.
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Okay so that means Republicans are rapists? Well I can agree with that.
 
BidenPresident said:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion showed up at the conservative Federalist Society’s black-tie dinner marking its 40th anniversary.

Justice Samuel Alito got a long, loud ovation Thursday night from a crowd of 2,000 people, most in tuxedos and gowns, when another speaker praised his opinion in June that overturned Roe v. Wade, long a target of judicial conservatives.

At a moment when opinion surveys show that Americans think the court is becoming more political and give it dismal approval ratings, the justices turned out to celebrate the group that helped then-President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans move the American judiciary, including the Supreme Court, to the right.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion...donald-trump-f0926d7b4a8bbaf7b698ada1a791ab25

We need to reform the Supreme Court.
Why are right wing ideologues (or any ideologue) given lifetime appointments?
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RWers screamed about activist Justices for decades until they finally got them. Sad. America suffers when our justice system is about politics instead of justice.
 
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