🧵 Former Chief Justice Warren Burger - a Nixon appointee whose Court gave us Roe v Wade with a 7-2 decision - once declared that the Second Amendment "has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud…”
The radical right Roberts Court advanced that fraud yesterday and perpetuated another fraud today.
Despite so many members of this Court declaring Roe “settled law” during their confirmation hearings, they all ended up being exactly who we thought they were.
Despite so many members of this Court declaring Roe “settled law” during their confirmation hearings, they all ended up being exactly who we thought they were.
Undermining the Voting Rights Act, invalidating campaign finance and gun control measures, TAKING AWAY a 50 year old constitutional right - this Court is perpetuating fraud after fraud.
The statue of Justice in front of the Court is blindfolded and is holding the scales of justice. The radical, fraudster majority on the Court doesn’t use the scales and has certainly taken off the blindfold. It is time for us to take off ours.
Justice Thomas-who is already carrying Jan 6 baggage-wants to further undermine American democracy and has declared that the precedents of Griswold (right to privacy) Lawrence (contraception) and Obergefell (marriage equality) are next on the chopping block.
This SCOTUS is OK with 21st century America resembling a Wild West version of the Handmaid’s Tale.
I’m not - and it is time to battle autocracy at home, not just abroad.
We need to commit ourselves to #BlueWave2022.
I’m not - and it is time to battle autocracy at home, not just abroad.
We need to commit ourselves to #BlueWave2022.
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