Supreme Court majority justices are aggressively asserting their power, flaunting it against the will of the voters. We need to balance the top-heavy conservative court. On June 23, 2022, SCOTUS in a 6-3 ruling widened the rights of gun owners by ruling against New York City and other municipalities & states that have passed laws restricting concealed carry of weapons. This infringes ‘States Rights’. Justice Breyer dissented, “Courts should consider whether modern firearms regulations are consistent with the Second Amendment’s contextual & historical understanding”. Then on June 25, Biden signed into law the first major gun reform in 3 decades, passed with bipartisan votes in the House & Senate.
Another ruling on 6/23, (6-3 vote) ruled that police officers can’t be sued under a federal civil rights law, for failing to read Miranda Rights to detainees, after they’ve violated the civil rights of criminal ‘suspects’, nullifying a person’s 5th & 6th Amendment right to NOT incriminate oneself, and right to legal representation when detained. The ‘Third Enforcement Act’ aka the ‘KKK Act’, was passed in 1871, one provision of which allows people to sue in civil court over civil rights violations, including 4th Amendment, unreasonable search & seizures. *If stopped, ask if you are free to leave, if not, invoke your right to speak to a lawyer, then remain silent.*
SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade on 6/24/22, at a federal level, making abortions illegal with no exception for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. Nearly 70 percent of Americans polled wanted ‘Roe’ left intact, but the Catholic evangelical ideologue justices have overturned a 50-year landmark ruling that established rights for women’s bodily autonomy & reproductive freedom. Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that, “The Court should use the same rationale to reconsider Griswold, Lawrence & Obergefell, rulings that now protect contraception, same-sex consensual relationships and same-sex marriage”. He stopped short of adding: inter-racial marriage. What rights will next be forfeited? We need separation of church & state NOW! Abortion rights will now be determined at the state level. President Biden admonished that restoring abortion rights is up to the voters, but his administration will seek to protect access to ‘medication abortion’, and could argue in court that the U.S. FDA’s approval of mifepristone, pre-empts state’s restrictions, meaning federal authority outweighs state action. Women would be able to purchase the drug online, making it difficult to enforce restriction attempts. Attorney General, Merrick Garland declared, “States may not ban mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety & efficacy”.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Jun 30 2022
SCOTUS majority defies majority of voters
Supreme Court majority justices are aggressively asserting their power, flaunting it against the will of the voters. We need to balance the top-heavy conservative court. On June 23, 2022, SCOTUS in a 6-3 ruling widened the rights of gun owners by ruling against New York City and other municipalities & states that have passed laws restricting concealed carry of weapons. This infringes ‘States Rights’. Justice Breyer dissented, “Courts should consider whether modern firearms regulations are consistent with the Second Amendment’s contextual & historical understanding”. Then on June 25, Biden signed into law the first major gun reform in 3 decades, passed with bipartisan votes in the House & Senate.
Another ruling on 6/23, (6-3 vote) ruled that police officers can’t be sued under a federal civil rights law, for failing to read Miranda Rights to detainees, after they’ve violated the civil rights of criminal ‘suspects’, nullifying a person’s 5th & 6th Amendment right to NOT incriminate oneself, and right to legal representation when detained. The ‘Third Enforcement Act’ aka the ‘KKK Act’, was passed in 1871, one provision of which allows people to sue in civil court over civil rights violations, including 4th Amendment, unreasonable search & seizures. *If stopped, ask if you are free to leave, if not, invoke your right to speak to a lawyer, then remain silent.*
SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade on 6/24/22, at a federal level, making abortions illegal with no exception for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. Nearly 70 percent of Americans polled wanted ‘Roe’ left intact, but the Catholic evangelical ideologue justices have overturned a 50-year landmark ruling that established rights for women’s bodily autonomy & reproductive freedom. Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that, “The Court should use the same rationale to reconsider Griswold, Lawrence & Obergefell, rulings that now protect contraception, same-sex consensual relationships and same-sex marriage”. He stopped short of adding: inter-racial marriage. What rights will next be forfeited? We need separation of church & state NOW! Abortion rights will now be determined at the state level. President Biden admonished that restoring abortion rights is up to the voters, but his administration will seek to protect access to ‘medication abortion’, and could argue in court that the U.S. FDA’s approval of mifepristone, pre-empts state’s restrictions, meaning federal authority outweighs state action. Women would be able to purchase the drug online, making it difficult to enforce restriction attempts. Attorney General, Merrick Garland declared, “States may not ban mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety & efficacy”.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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