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Pay up!
Did I miss that it was time to set the Supreme Court clock back a few decades? Overturning Roe v. Wade took us back almost 50 years.[1] Regardless, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is all butthurt because people, including liberal justices, are talking trash about the Trump court after their recent decision concerning student loans.[2] Or was it Affirmative Action? Could be over the abortion decision that has thrown so much of country in chaos.
Let’s talk about the decisions being made by men wearing black dresses like the women. That makes me wonder if anyone has accused them of putting on a drag show. I suppose they’re all consenting adults. Sounds like a discussion for a later time.
Anyway, let’s get on with it.
From Roberts: “We do not mistake this plainly heartfelt disagreement for disparagement. It is important that the public not be misled either. Any such misperception would be harmful to this institution and our country.” He kinda skipped the part about the Trump Court decision/s being harmful to the country.
Roberts was referring to the Trump Court decision to stop President Biden’s Executive order to provide student loan debt relief (Biden v. Nebraska) to around 43 million Americans.[3] Or as Trump’s “Old Crow” Senator, aka Senator McConnell said, “The American people know that the Biden Administration's student loan socialism plan would be a raw deal for hardworking taxpayers.”[4] For Republicans anything that helps the working class is socialism but are fully supportive of socialism for the rich that they gave trillions of dollars in tax breaks to during the Trump years.[5]
College is already out of reach for the poor and a lot of the middle class. An educated population is dangerous to Republicans. It’s one of the many reasons that they’re making it harder for young people in college to vote. It’s also one of the many reasons that they are passing laws to change curriculums in red states (looking at you, Florida). Like Trump says.
They love the uneducated.[6]
No cake for you!
In 303 Creative v. Elenis, the Trump Court has also ruled that it’s okay to discriminate against people, especially gay people, in the public sector as long as it’s being done for the right reason! You might remember the Trump Court’s previous decision, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, where they upheld the right of a Christian NOT to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple.[7]
Justice Sonia Sotomayor had this to say about the 303 Creative decision: "Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class." BTW The guy cited in the suit didn’t know anything about the case and was married to a woman.[8] The case was make-believe.
Yup. That’s what they did. The Trump Court jumped through hoops and came up with the term “expressive” in regard to the service being provided in order to allow discrimination for religious reasons by claiming it’s a “freedom of speech” issue involved. Yes. Expressive. We now have expressive commerce.
Conservative White Nationalists people be lining up now to find creative ways to discriminate against people they don’t like. A judge in Texas who doesn’t want to perform rainbow people weddings has jumped on that colorless bandwagon already and filed a lawsuit.[9]
Think she’ll be the last?
But wait!
So right-wing Christians can now continue following their anti-Jesus beliefs.
BUT wait!
Wasn’t the bible used to justify racism? You betcha. Still is. It was also used to defend slavery.[10] When I was in the Army, I served under a first lieutenant that would defend his racism with passages from the bible. He did not believe that people of color had any right to tell him what to do. He was very “expressive” about it.
How long do you think it will be before racists use their deeply held religious beliefs to refuse service to people of color because of the Trump court decision? That will go over real well don’tcha think?
But wait once again!
The Trump court decision on affirmative action can also be used to help the “lost cause.”[11] Race can no longer be used in a predominantly white country in order to get people of color into Ivy League schools like Justice Thomas did.[12] Yeah, that’s going to end well for minorities. They can go back to looking in through the window to a better life.
New Jim Crow laws.
Let there be light!
Ever heard of the Supreme Court shadow docket? It’s a way that the Trump Court can make decisions in the shadows without transparency.[13] A justice makes a decision about a case that doesn’t go before the entire court. What’s more they don’t even have to be signed. These off the books decisions increased under the Trump Administration and had a dramatic outcome on cases without ever seeing the light of day.
Evil can haunt the shadows.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1102305878/supreme-court-abortion-roe-v-wade-decision-overturn
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2023/04/28/chief-justice-john-roberts-wife-made-over-10-million-as-legal-consultant-report-says/?sh=744d49701e9a
[3] https://www.npr.org/2023/06/06/1180175155/supreme-court-decisions-affirmative-action-voting-rights-student-loans
[4] https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-celebrate-supreme-court-scotus-student-loan-debt-forgiveness-decision-2023-6?op=1
[5] https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/511492-after-trillions-in-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-republicans-refuse-to-help/
[6] Love the poorly educated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3DIaUHySuM
[7] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/06/the-court-slices-a-narrow-ruling-out-of-masterpiece-cakeshop/561986/
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/303_Creative_LLC_v._Elenis
[9] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-judge-who-doesnt-want-to-perform-gay-marriage-ceremonies-hopes-web-designers-supreme-court-case-helps-her-fight/ar-AA1dUz6R
[10] https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/883115867/white-supremacist-ideas-have-historical-roots-in-u-s-christianity
[11] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lost-Cause
[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas
[13]
https://www.britannica.com/topic/shadow-docket
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