The night the Supreme Court abandoned the Constitution
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts loses his grip.
Thank 45 and Republican Senators for Tuesday’s Supreme Court non-decision which took effect Wednesday Sept. 1 at midnight. 45’s appointees Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett helped redefine the course ahead for reversing “Roe-Wade.” In a 5–4 “decision” these appointees joined justices Alito and Thomas in letting stand a Texas law banning abortion of 6 week term pregnancies and permitting private citizens the opportunity to bring suit against abortion service providers and those who support women’s constitutional rights as outlined in “Roe-Wade.”
This calculated “non-decision” raises three constitutional questions:
First, the 50 year standing of Roe-Wade as legal precedent was dismissed;
Second, “equal protection” clause of the US Constitution was blatantly ignored;
Third, enforcement and execution of laws protecting individual access to publicly provided medical care were overruled, removing a domain of local enforcers mandated to serve the public and community.
In effect, today’s judicial action provided three avenues for private interests to tear up established court decisions.
Revealed midnight, September 1, was a de facto tyranny of the public well-being, specifically half of the public well-being.
Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision let stand a discriminatory anti-women’s rights agenda. There is little hope of redress as White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the following day issued an official denouncement of the ruling:
Executive branch fist-pounding, yes, but unfortunately — though compelling on face value — the White House denouncement goes nowhere. Are Alito or Kavanaugh moved by the White House denouncement? Gorsuch, Thomas or Coney Barrett?
Recall the process by which the Texas law made it to the Supreme Court: the Circuit Court for Texas overruled a District Court ban on the execution of the Texas law, bringing the case proceeding to the Supreme Court for review. So harbored as an issue of judicial oversight, the case required no hearing of cause or evidence, merely a vote on the standing of the District Court’s decision. Thus were Roberts’ hands tied.
Score a victory for the activist conservative wing; score a loss for the “institutionalist” Roberts.
No opinions were rendered because no case was heard. The 5 justices who broke constitutional rank are covered by the absence of deliberation on the weight of the evidence.
This is not interpretation of the law. Today’s “decision” was an abdication of judicial role.
What was broken today was judicial authority: a constitutional “insurrection” masking as black robes.
September 2
