FYI

 

Juan Williams: The Supreme Court is on the brink of disaster

It's been a discredited institution since Bush vs Gore. It's just another political institution at this point.

"Whatever the court decides, this is now a purely political fight.  

The law books have gone out the window.  

The power play underway is damaging to public confidence that America is a nation of laws, not the whims of whatever group currently holds power."

"The leaks might be intended to stir a public backlash to keep Roe. 

They might be intended to pressure individual justices to retain a majority vote to end Roe. 

Either way, it reveals that politics are overwhelming legal reasoning and the independence of the court."

(Spot on Juan)

"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) success in thwarting Garland resulted in three Trump nominees rising to the court. Overall, six of the nine current justices are Republican nominees.  

This is a remarkable show of political power over a supposedly independent branch of the government. 

(Again spot on. This was the original intent of the constitution we hear so much of from a certain political constituency?)

"The Republican indifference to majority rule in undoing Roe threatens to tear this already fractured country apart. The only comparable ruling would be the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision, which precipitated the Civil War."

(It will be like throwing gasoline on a fire when it goes down. Who cares if their side got what they wanted if there's no country left?)