Comment by azinman2
1 year ago
But they’re not “following the law, not a political bias.” The political bias is contemporary conservatism, which in reason years has meant making abortion illegal, allow corporations as many rights or more than citizens, allow infinite secret money in politics, remove as much regulation and federal agencies as possible, reduce civil rights particularly for gays/trans/people of color, get rid of affirmative action, extend “religious freedom” into new and every aspect of life including as a precursor to ignore any existing law, prevent any kind of mandatory public health response, etc etc.
Everything I mentioned is not only a stated goal but has already happened. They are getting the results for which they continue fund raising. Now conservative Supreme Court judges are inviting new areas, such as when Thomas said he’s hoping for a new suit to shut down gay marriage after killing roe v wade. Trump even said he appointed judges specialty that will kill Roe v Wade. How is this not activism?
I would posit that the vast majority of that is you reading court decisions through the lens of your own political biases.
Roe vs. Wade wasn't reversed because the judges thought abortion was wrong (though they may indeed think that). It was reversed because Roe vs. Wade was a ridiculously convoluted ruling by an activist court that created a constitutional right to abortion out of thin air when a plain reading of the text of the constitution makes it obvious it contains no such provision. But if you're looking at this solely through a political lens and see it as the court "making abortion illegal" (which it actually didn't even do, it just reversed the previous ruling that was preventing states from enforcing their own longstanding laws on the subject) then its understandable why you might (incorrectly) see that as activism.
In contrast, a right to "religious freedom" very obviously does exist in the constitution, in the very first sentence of the bill of rights, and racial discrimination (affirmative action) is banned by the 14th amendment. There's room for debate as to exactly how broadly those freedoms were originally intended to be applied, but its not obvious to me on its face that those cases were decided incorrectly due to "activism" either.
The rest of your accusations are so vague that it's not clear to me what they're even referring to.