Brent Budowsky: McCain Supreme Court: Nightmare for Women, Workers and Justice

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/15252

McCain Supreme Court: Nightmare for Women, Workers and Justice
John McCain | Supreme Court
by Brent Budowsky | June 13, 2008


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With a Supreme Court that would fully support this radical and extreme notion of unlimited, pre-emptive executive power, the sins of George Bush are only the beginning of what a McCain court would make the law of the land.

Bush and McCain almost always agree on the need for a supersecret superstate, justified by the politics of fear, employing tactics such as massive eavesdropping in violation of clear constitutional language and clear federal law.

Bush and McCain almost always agree in opposition to legal protections for women and labor. In their economic and legal philosophy, Bush and McCain always agree on a Darwinian laissez-faire where the big boys rule, the average folks are unprotected, the powerful monopolize their power and the powerless become second-class citizens with third-class legal rights.

The list goes on. Even on torture, McCain's latest position is torture-friendly. Even on Guantanamo, which McCain says he will close, his legal position is anti-constitutional. His verbal position depends on his need for extreme right-wing support and his level of political desperation at the time he speaks, on a given day.

In the same way that McCain, like Bush, opposes a long list of programs important to women, McCain, like Bush, is hostile to Roe v. Wade, and McCain, like Bush, favors a Supreme Court that would turn justice in America backward a hundred years. McCain would create a bitterly divided nation even more than George Bush, which is almost impossible, but a McCain Supreme Court would do it.

Imagine a Supreme Court with five, six or seven justices like Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito with new McCain justices being young and having the power to control the court for decades.

This, folks, is deadly serious business, indeed.

[Joanne98]

1. Aint' that the truth. K&R

[babylonsister]

2. I thought so...

:shrug:

[Thothmes]

3. Probably not going to happen unless,

The Democrats in our Congress go along willingly. The two oldest court members are Ginsberg and Stevens. The are also the most liberal members of the court. In order to replace them with more Scalias or Alitos, A Democratically controlled Senate must confirm them. McCain can nominate anyone that he wants to, but if the get to the bench it is because the Democratic majority in the Senate voted to confirm them.