By lots of measures, most in the U.S. lack much confidence in large institutions and have for years. Congress? Two big thumbs down. The presidency? Ehh. Americans are also distrustful of big business, unions, public schools and organized religion. Indeed, they hold abysmal views of the functioning of democracy itself.
Elected officials do not normally talk this way about the justices. But now, it seems, the jurists are fair game, just another contingent of power players in the Washington viper pit. Then Republicans did the same for Supreme Court nominees in the judicial equivalent of nuclear escalation. Yet people in the United States, in recent times, have grown suspicious about judicial independence, with a strong majority believing justices should keep their political views out of their decisions but not even 1 in 5 polled believing they do an excellent or good job of that.
Now, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a liberal on the conservative-majority court, warns that a reversal in 50 years of abortion rights would shatter the idea that American justice is blind to partisanship or party. In Charleston, outside West Virginia’s only abortion clinic, Dennis Westover, a 72-year-old retired electrical engineer, sat in a lawn chair with an anti-abortion sign. He, too, sees weird doings from the court.
Going to make a sizable contribution to the Pro-Life Movement in the name of the Denver Post
In the opinion of a liberal writer for a liberal rag.
So, after decades of a left leaning court, when the right accepted, with respect, their rulings, now that’s it right leaning the left has gone insane. Good to know. If nothing else, it shows who should really be in charge here.
You can thank the person who wants to be king for selfishness and divisiveness!!
The Koch family and their gop minions have been working hard on this. Makes me think they aren’t loyal Americans.
The leak didn't shake anyone's trust, the fucking justices did
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