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Where to begin?
She starts by saying that "The Supreme Court has a power, its power is in whether its rulings are heated and respected, and if so, how much and to what extent. And when we have the framing of our government, the Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court are suppose to be 3 co-equal branches, none with supremacy over the other, and when any one of the branches overreaches its authority it is the responsibility of the other two branches to check the overreach of that authority. The Supreme Court has engaged in the overreaching of its authority in denying the human and civil rights of pregnant people"
First of all, let me just give AOC props for not using the term woman which is now un-PC or using the term menstruating people, thus reducing women to the foul stench of their reproductive discharge by the words she used to describe them. Kudos! Instead, she decided to take the high road and just refer to them as people who are going to have a baby.............er.............um....................have a fetus inside them that may or may not be human.
As for the power of SCOTUS, that comes from the Constitution, and the parameters set up in the Constitution. What she means by saying that their power comes from whether or not its rulings are heated and respected is a real head scratcher. It seems to me that plenty of SCOTUS decisions were heated and not respected, especially in the South where the court ruled against segregation in the schools. In fact, after the Supreme Court verdict, Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas called out the state National Guard to prevent Black students from attending high school in Little Rock in 1957. After a tense standoff, President Eisenhower deployed federal troops, and nine students—known as the “Little Rock Nine”—were able to enter Central High School under armed guard.
Sound heated to you. It certainly does me as the South had no respect whatsoever for the ruling or the court.
I wonder if AOC ever wondered why there were 3 branches. Did the Founding Fathers only envision SCOTUS make a ruling when the other two disagreed, just to be a tie breaker? Were they also to go along with the other two if they agreed to something just by default? That would have to be her position. But the role of SCOTUS under the Constitution is this:
First, as the highest court in the land, it is the court of last resort for those looking for justice. Second, due to its power of judicial review, it plays an essential role in ensuring that each branch of government recognizes the limits of its own power. Third, it protects civil rights and liberties by striking down laws that violate the Constitution. Finally, it sets appropriate limits on democratic government by ensuring that popular majorities cannot pass laws that harm and/or take undue advantage of unpopular minorities. In essence, it serves to ensure that the changing views of a majority do not undermine the fundamental values common to all Americans, i.e., freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and due process of law.
Did you hear that AOC? Just because the mobs who elected those to Congress and the President may want to infringe on the rights of others, that is those without a political voice, or just because this may cause a heated exchange, or just because Congress and the Executive don't want to go along with it, does not mean they should bow to them all. Roe vs. Wade failed to do one thing, and that is to navigate the humanity of the unborn. The Roe vs. Wade decision basically said it was unknowable and chose instead to hide behind the privacy of women instead. This would be akin to Abraham Lincoln deciding that the privacy of slave owners superseded the question as to the humanity of the slave, were they co-equals under the Constitution?
I also find it amusing that AOC says that SCOTUS is overreaching their authority by giving such authority to lower courts. In essence, the decisions now will be made by the grass roots voters of each individual state, something you would think would be great for democracy instead of a hand full of bureaucrats in Washington DC to make conservative states by liberal or vice versa.
Finally, the unborn will have their day in court as, for the first time, the question as to when life becomes life can be answered.
