![]() ![]() It’s a serious handicap for an elected leader to be considered a lame duck. ![]() Joe might want to reflect on the vibrant history of American democracy: If leaders don’t lead, the people will, even if that means getting a new president. Asked about rising anger at his inaction, President Joe Biden dismissed the critics: “I’m the only president they got,” he snapped. Unfortunately, even the Biden White House doesn’t get the depth of the public’s outrage and determination to restore this right into law. To be blunt, the right wing lost this fight the moment it won the ruling. Reality has many ways to conquer ideology. The judicial authoritarians who’re perverting the court’s purpose from justice to autocracy are deluding themselves if they think that six unelected judges ensconced in a marble bubble in Washington can deter the democratic imperative (much less the maternal authority) of millions of American women. That’s wrong on two counts: First, there is nothing conservative about what amounts to a naked power grab by a small minority of pious, ideological tyrants. When the supremes issued their government decree in June, headlines blared that the decision by “conservatives” on the court “ends” a woman’s right to choose. This is the Republican Party’s current concept of “ small government.” By judicial fiat, the right-wing judges have decreed that the state will make birth decisions, regardless of what mothers want. Supreme Court.īy hook and crook, they’ve installed a six-judge majority, and now they’re using them as a political cudgel to try stealing not just a constitutional right, but an inherent human right from American women - the right to make their own reproductive decisions. In the last few years, a cabal of right-wing zealots have plotted to seize control of the U.S. Biden dismisses the critics by saying, “I’m the only president they got.” But being a lame president only leads to being a lame duck.įormer President Donald Trump’s criminal use of lies and mob violence to steal the 2020 election failed, but it’s not the only recent coup attack on our democracy. ![]()
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