June 13, 2008
McCain Supreme Court: Nightmare for Women, Workers and Justice (Brent Budowsky)
Want to overturn Roe v. Wade and begin a new political civil war over abortion? How about a Supreme Court that supports the George Bush approach of executive power similar to royal monarchs, with massive and illegal wiretapping thrown in, legalized by a McCain court?
The Supreme Court is not only one branch of government, it is the branch that determines the powers of the other two branches. In the world of George Bush and John McCain, the executive branch is all-powerful with no meaningful checks and balances.
With a Supreme Court that would fully support this radical and extreme notion of unlimited, pre-emptive executive power, the sins of George Bush are only the beginning of what a McCain court would make the law of the land.
Bush and McCain almost always agree on the need for a supersecret superstate, justified by the politics of fear, employing tactics such as massive eavesdropping in violation of clear constitutional language and clear federal law.
Bush and McCain almost always agree in opposition to legal protections for women and labor. In their economic and legal philosophy, Bush and McCain always agree on a Darwinian laissez-faire where the big boys rule, the average folks are unprotected, the powerful monopolize their power and the powerless become second-class citizens with third-class legal rights.
The list goes on. Even on torture, McCain's latest position is torture-friendly. Even on Guantanamo, which McCain says he will close, his legal position is anti-constitutional. His verbal position depends on his need for extreme right-wing support and his level of political desperation at the time he speaks, on a given day.
In the same way that McCain, like Bush, opposes a long list of programs important to women, McCain, like Bush, is hostile to Roe v. Wade, and McCain, like Bush, favors a Supreme Court that would turn justice in America backward a hundred years. McCain would create a bitterly divided nation even more than George Bush, which is almost impossible, but a McCain Supreme Court would do it.
Imagine a Supreme Court with five, six or seven justices like Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito with new McCain justices being young and having the power to control the court for decades.
This, folks, is deadly serious business, indeed.
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Where in the Constitution is the justification for upholding Roe. vs. Wade? I don't care about abortions one way or another, but that clearly seems to be a power that should be left to the states. Just like finding Habeas Corpus rights for prisoners of war, the court simply makes things up, and you like it when it goes your way, and don't like it when it doesn't. Respect for the actual Constitution? Who cares about that when there are laws to be legislated from the bench.
Comment by Igor R. — June 13, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
Brent;
Good post as usual. I doubt that McCain will have the chance to implement his choices for the SC as he is screwing up every time he opens his mouth. For once, I believe the American People will make the right choice.
Comment by Mike Coleman — June 13, 2008 @ 1:59 pm
Brent,
To quote you "The Supreme Court is not only one branch of government, it is the branch that determines the powers of the other two branches."
No the powers of the other two branches are in the Constitution. The Supreme Court is the last court to interpret laws as to whther they are constitutional.
Remember, Congress makes the law, Presiddent signs to and enforces the law, and the Supreme Court interprets and determines its legality and or constitutionality.
I cannot believe how wrong you are the powers of the branches of government.
Comment by Jon Pemberton — June 13, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
Yes, Brent! I can imagine the Supreme Court with five, six or seven justices like Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito with new conservative justices being young and having the power to control the court for decades. The only way to preserve this country is to yank the liberals out of there for a long time.
Comment by Misha — June 13, 2008 @ 2:41 pm
Brent,
Good post!
It calls to mind that horribly shrewish Hillary supporter from NYC who declared, all over YOU-TUBE, her determination to vote for McCain because Hillary lost the nomination.
Considering that Clinton and Obama share more in common than either of them do with McCain, it's like cutting off her nose to spite her face — don't you think?
However, it is not only women who should be concerned about McCain making Supreme Court nomination. Every person who has been dismayed by the loss of liberty here should be deeply worried about a McCain presidency.
Comment by barbara day — June 13, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
I don't know whether Harriet Christian is "shrewish", but if she thinks that I think she won't vote for McCain–then she's right.
I thank her for the entertaining petulance, however.
Comment by Barry Schwartz — June 13, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
Dear Mr Budowsky
Honestly, reversing R v W would not turn the U.S. back 100 years as you suggest… 100 years ago contraception did not exist. Thankfully, one of our recent Presidents educated an entire generation on the use of condoms… R v W also did not exist until the early 70's or late 60's. In today's day and age having unprotected sex s/b against the law all together with the impact AIDs has had on the world, and all the other STDs .
There is no need for abortion… People are using aborthion as a form of birth control - the same people - over and over again… At the same time they are spreading STDs …
Open your eyes Mr. Budowsky, Abortion is archaic and just a money-making operation. It is a practice as archaic as genital mutilation that is currently performed in the Congo.
I wish some hot-shot journalist would do an honest expose' on THAT HIGHLY CHARGED industry.
Those little American fetus's have no one to represent them, except maybe for Sen McCain.
Comment by JFK-HRC — June 13, 2008 @ 5:07 pm
Where justice is concerned, women and minorities have been lied to for years, being deluded into believing that being a government serf is more important than freedom. Where is the justice or equality in that?
Comment by Robert Rosencrans — June 13, 2008 @ 7:31 pm
This is flip sloppin with a revolving door for the moment. With leadership like this, why are we so wound up about the Taliband and their treatment of women? McCain will have us taking fantastic leaps and bounds backwards in time in both womans rights and education! Who side is he really on? Didn't we just ignite a war and are we not still fighting a war with zealots that teach their folks that science is BAD and everything steams from the word of God. What is goiing on in his ptsd mind? We still are entitled to freedom of religion, yes but the way hes going he is going to have us wearing burkas. Don't forget women are fighting this war to or is that just a fluff piece. Tell that to the ones loosing limbs, getting shot and the parents that have buried thier daughters.
What is it about womens rights that bother men so much? I say that there are more right wing Conservative Christians in this country that are terrorists then ever and yet they are not investigated.
McCain is seriously scary and will drive this country into more war and possibly a revolution unlike any ever seen before.
Who's the real terrorist in this story or is this just another way to get a pat on the head from those he needs to impress.
Obama will heal this country foreign and domestic.
Roe vs. Wade should never be overturned and all women will fight for their rights if threatened, I guarantee it for themselves and generations to come!
Q
Comment by Lori B — June 13, 2008 @ 10:58 pm
Igor R. I really hope your not in an active political post.
Comment by Lori B — June 13, 2008 @ 11:07 pm
Good post Brent, and true as usual. Mcinsane doesn't even know what to say half of the time and the other half he doesn't remember what he said. I think the reason he wants town meetings is because he can't handle crowds, but that's his problem. He agrees with everything Bush says and that's why he won't win. He will not keep getting a pass for being a P.O.W.. It's honorable that he was, and he made it back home safely, but give our soldiers in Iraq the same opportunity. By the way, the surge is not working.
Comment by yvonne — June 14, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
yvonne, before taking a low shot at McCain over his age, take a look at your Barack Hussein's performance without a teleprompter. It's nothing to write home about, mediocre to say the least. He's just not sure what to say quite often. May be he was more eloquent at the Trinity Church with his mentor proudly watching…
Comment by Misha — June 15, 2008 @ 8:01 pm
Lori B, I actively post on political matters.
And by the way, you COULD HAVE pointed out where in the constitution it spells out the right of the Federal government to regulate abortions. The "right to privacy" justification is a bit to much for me. Your woe is me treatise on the plight of women was touching, but had nothing to do with the Constitution being the fundamental law of the land. You actually don't give a damn about the Constitution, you just like the liberal agenda. And by the way it's "Taliban", just so you know who really wants to put you in a burka. Remember, freedom's just another word for nothing left to hide.
Comment by Igor R. — June 15, 2008 @ 10:04 pm
Yvonne, if you repeat that the surge is not working often enough, who knows, someone might believe it and you could even convince yourself.
Comment by Igor R. — June 15, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
#12, tell it to the thousands of people who go to hear him speak. #14, in case you haven't been keeping up with what's going on, Pakistan is threating to attack our troops even worse. You know those guys in Pakistan, where AL Quieda reside? The ones responsible for 911? If you would quit believing the spin from the right you may come to the correct conclusion that we really weren't supposed to be in Iraq. But then that would be to admit the war was a mistake. No wonder Mcinsane says it doesn't matter when the troops come home.
Comment by yvonne — June 16, 2008 @ 11:47 am
yvonne, #15. thousands of people who come and hear obama speak? You mean his usual stump speech where he injects focus group tested stuff like "change", "hope", "I was right about Iraq all along", "fair share of taxes paid by rich" and other non-sense? Lenin once said that "quantity has a quality all its own". Same applies to "million men march" by Farrakhan. I wonder how many of these thousands that come to hear obama speak missed working hours or actually created a single job.
Comment by Misha — June 16, 2008 @ 1:10 pm
yvonne, to say that the surge is not working because there is trouble in Pakistan is quite a way to change the subject. You made a baseless statement about the surge, and when confronted with a lie, you go all over the place. Whether we are supposed to be in Iraq or not, the surge has dramatically stabilized the country, and only those who chose not to see don't see it.
Comment by Igor R. — June 16, 2008 @ 2:00 pm
Misha, it's worth repeating that the way Obama created the history-making crowd in Oregon was to have the very popular radical Marxist group, "The Decembrists" give a free concert right before his appearance. Neither the fact that a popular band was involved in creating the crowd nor their politics were reported by the Mainstream Media. They lie and hide the truth any which way they can, because they all have a thrill running up their leg like Chris Mathews when they hear the name Obama.
Comment by Igor R. — June 16, 2008 @ 2:03 pm
Let's look at some Republican Legislation.
Un-Born Victims of Violence Act passed by Republicans and signed by Bush.
Clearly states a woman can legally kill her unborn child.
Cases in States murder laws that would have prosecuted women for murder have been thrown out of court.
Republicans Claimed those State Judges were radicals who need replacing.
Had these women been convicted of murdering their babies in State Courts they would have been overturned upon appeal to the Federal Bench.
Republicans may have done more harm than good!!
Comment by Donaldd — June 16, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
Misha, I have to ask a question pertaining to your comment that "the only way to preserve this country is to yank the liberals out of there for a long time". Obviously, you realize that this long term "yank" would pretty much destroy the Democratic party (something the Delay era seemed to have focused on so adamantly). My question is, would a one party/one idealogical government be in the best interest of this country?
Comment by andy42302 — June 17, 2008 @ 8:11 am
andy, the Democrats and Republicans worked out well until Nixon, the sixties, and the left wing taking control of the Dems. Now just about anything would be better than having Obama presiding over a Democratic congress.
Comment by Igor R. — June 17, 2008 @ 2:07 pm