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reACTIONary

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Thu Sep 24, 2020, 07:38 AM Sep 2020

Capitulating to the right won't end the judicial wars


... Conservatives have brilliantly used the abortion question to distract attention from the core of their activist agenda. It involves dismantling regulation, gutting civil rights laws, narrowing voting rights enforcement giving moneyed interests free rein in our politics, strengthening corporate power, weakening unions, undercutting antitrust laws — and, now, tearing apart the Affordable Care Act.

Conservatives would much rather talk about abortion than any of these other questions. Why? Because they don’t want the public to hear about issues related to democracy and economic justice on which the right takes the unpopular side. What they can’t win in Congress, they want to win through the courts. That is the dirty secret of conservative judicial activism that McConnell and his friends would love to keep under wraps


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/capitulating-to-the-right-wont-end-the-judicial-wars/2020/09/23/5402f378-fdd5-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html
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Capitulating to the right won't end the judicial wars (Original Post) reACTIONary Sep 2020 OP
Nope. Expand SCROTUS and the entire Federal bench. lagomorph777 Sep 2020 #1
Appeasement doesn't work. SharonAnn Sep 2020 #2
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