Americans across the nation are terrified, disgusted, infuriated, and shaken to their core after a leaked memo was recently published by Politico, suggesting that the United States Supreme Court could overturn Roe V. Wade — a landmark decision made in 1973, protecting a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion without undue government interference or restrictions.
But one columnist with the Washington Post says that despite how terrifying this situation truly is — as numerous Conservative Supreme Court Justice, many of whom were appointed by none other than Donald Trump, get busted in lie after lie when it came to abortion right in this country — the United States Senate is not powerless here. And she’s now outlining just exactly what the crucial branch of Congress has to do to hold these justices accountable for their lies and bring an end to this tyrannical “religious power grab.”
“The livid reaction from progressive advocacy groups and Democratic politicians across the country about the potential evisceration of abortion rights — and possibly others protected by the 14th Amendment — should tell the media this is not simply about ‘culture’ nor is it a ‘war,'” the Post’s Jennifer Rubin writes. “It’s a religious power grab by justices who, according to at least two female Republican senators, dissembled under oath about their intentions regarding Roe. The Senate Judiciary Committee should hold hearings and call GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) to testify. If those senators were really duped, they should consider advocating for extreme measures, including impeachment and a filibuster exception to codify Roe.”
It’s clear at this point that the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority, as well as their supporters, are downright refusing this country’s founding principle of the separation of church and state, and the founding principle that the government shall impose no religion on its people. In his recent 11-point plan, Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott proved that many GOPers intend to utilize the overturning of Roe to wield state power over constituents and impose their own religious beliefs on others.
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“It wasn’t so long ago that ‘conservatives’ stood for the proposition that government, especially the federal government, should not control the totality of traditions, habits, and decisions made in civil society,” Rubin penned. “The family, for example, should remain undisturbed to work out arrangements that reflect its members’ values, faith and views in a pluralistic society. The principle of limited government posits that — unlike totalitarian states that override personal conscience, family, and religion — free peoples do not tolerate an all-pervasive government.”
Rubin points out that what we’re living through right now goes far and beyond a culture war, and that’s serving to diminish the threat.
“The Supreme Court is poised to roil the very essence of our constitutional tradition and strike at the heart of a pluralistic democracy,” her scathing column concludes. “Let’s call it what it really is: state-enforced theocracy, or if you prefer, religious authoritarianism.”
You can read the full piece from the Washington Post right here.
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