"Friday’s ruling was another reminder, for a country that needs no more,
that Americans cannot take for granted the freedoms they enjoy. Their
decisions, particularly how and whether they vote, can have direct,
dramatic and negative consequences for their lives. A decades-long
conservative crusade to nullify federal abortion rights has now
succeeded, because Senate Republicans underhandedly stacked the court
with justices who have proved to be disastrously intemperate. This
tragic moment should wake Americans to reality: They must defend their
rights, or they are liable to lose them." -- Washington Post editorial board this morning (our emphasis)
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"The crowd began gathering a little after 10, when the word came down that the Court’s decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was every bit as bad as it was long feared to be. Pro-choice activists waved signs and chanted and sang. Anti-choice activists waved signs and chanted and sang, and prayed to whatever God they believe ordained that, if you have a Glock, you have more rights than if you have a uterus. Reading the 6-3 majority opinion, and the dissents thereto, is like wandering through a legal nightmare of the 19th Century. And in one line in his concurrence, Justice Clarence Thomas, who is the de facto Chief these days since, plainly, nobody’s listening to John Roberts any more, makes that awful specter into grim reality.
'In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell.'
"They’re coming for it all, people. That’s what this carefully engineered radical conservative majority was bought and paid for. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse was absolutely right when he rose on the Senate floor last July 27, and tried to explain what he called The Scheme—the long-march campaign to buy a hardcore conservative majority on the Supreme Court." -- Charles P. Pierce, in Esquire, on "The Hard Right Has Gotten What It Paid For" (our emphasis). More evidence of this, if any was needed, was the statement from Mike Pence -- yesterday's "hero" who's quickly reverted back to the Christofascist windsock he's always been -- that abortions should be banned nationwide, a position opposed by the vast majority of Americans (just like overturning Roe was). Other prominent Republicans have made it clear that this is the ultimate goal, which can be accomplished as early as 2024, with the election of a Republican President and a Republican House and Senate.
But overturning Griswold (contraception), Lawrence (same-sex sexual activity) and Obergefell (same-sex marriage) only requires a lawsuit bubbling up to this radical, ultra- reactionary SCOTUS for the march backwards to continue, and Clarence Thomas has openly invited them.
