It’s a fact that the vast majority of Americans do not want to see women’s rights disappear. But five people, who do not care what the majority of Americans want, are going to let it happen. Who are these people?
They are Supreme Court justices, and the three newest of them, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Bret Kavanaugh lied during their confirmation hearings. They all said Roe v Wade was “settled law”. Now, a memo from Judge Alito’s desk says that all five GOP justices will vote to take away women’s rights – the same rights they said were protected as settled law.
SCOTUS hearings are essentially live job application interviews. Lying during a job application is always grounds to lose that job. I can’t imagine a teacher, nurse, policeman, or even a baby sitter keeping their job if they lied on a matter of substantial importance during their live interview process. The people who do the hiring have a right not to keep a liar in their midst. This should be more important, not less, for a lawyer, congressman and especially a Supreme Court Justice because it’s a lifetime appointment. We must have a right to remove a cancer in our justice system or it is not a justice system at all.
I want to see a congressperson in the House stand up and ask the three justices who lied about their position on Roe vs Wade to recuse themselves from weighing in against abortion-related woman’s rights issues. At least, if these three justices will do that they are not caught on video lying to Congress. And if they will not agree to recuse themselves in Roe v Wade matters, and weighing against Roe, then they are in effect saying “we lied to get this cushy lifetime appointment job” and tough luck to the people.
For me, that has to mean they must abandon their seats or be forcibly removed the very next day on all matters because we simply don’t know what motivated them to lie to Congress. It smells like a sellout, which would mean their support was purchased. Either that, or this “no abortions” thing was so important to them that they were okay about lying to Congress about it. Neither excuse is worthy of a judge, let alone a Supreme Court justice. Changing one’s mind on a matter so crucial to all Americans also does not cut it as a valid excuse for a judicial interview. We expect better and must insist on better.
The fact remains these justices at the very least misrepresented their inner thinking during a job application. They could have said, Roe v Wade is the law of the land but I dont’t know how I feel about it yet. That may have been honest. But that is not what was said. If we don’t insist on honesty from justices, we are permitting the existence of an American judicial banana republic.
I have long thought the reason the Democrats don’t fight as hard as they should is they are afraid they will lose in the Supreme Court when push comes to shove. This leaked Alito memo confirmed that suspicion.
When Trump nominated Gorsuch, I placed this image at my Twitter @EnglishCodeWord.
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From its first words. the Constitution says all governmental power is derived from We, the People. Let’s not over think this or let the GOP convince us that what they are doing is all “legal” or “constitutional”. It is not. We must now use our Constitution to protect us from what is surely coming if we do not.
Further, SCOTUS justices are sworn to uphold the Constitution which clearly says no state can take away citizen’s rights. The exact word used is abridge – which means to shorten. This court is doing more than just shortening women’s rights. They are letting states take the away women’s autonomy over their bodies and wills.
The 14th Amendment, Section One Verbatim:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
This is not complicated language. We don’t need it to be interpreted, spinned or ignored by the people who lied to get jobs in our Supreme Court. They said “Roe” was settled law. We took them at their word. If they reverse that position, and let states take away women’s rights, they are also saying they lied or misled Congress on their positions. And perhaps as well, they are saying they just don’t care about the poor American women, who will be affected by this ruling.
The phrase “settled law” means they thought this over, reviewed its history, and settled the matter in their minds. If they did not think that, they could have said otherwise. They lied or misled to Congress. It’s grounds for being fired from any job. Justices are not elected by the people. They cannot be allowed to lie to the people or their representatives and keep the jobs they lied to get. No one in government or private business who lies to get a job should ever be allowed to think they can keep that job after their lies are exposed. At that point, their further employment is up to the employers, which in this case is ultimately “we, the people” via our elected representatives. To allow otherwise is to welcome corruption, which is really our biggest problem in the current US government. Lying to get a job is a breach in a contract.
Further, anti-abortion laws are a clear violation of the 14th, sec 1, on two accounts. They do abridge currently constitutional women’s rights in the USA. And they do restrict a woman’s liberty or freedom.
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I, Neil Gorsuch, do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as a Supreme Court Justice under the Constitution and laws of the United States.
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett are not even trying to live up to this oath. They know what the 14th Sec 1 says, and they are ignoring it. The only reasonable assumption is they have been paid off somehow to rule against the words they spoke at their confirmation hearings.
I am calling for these three justices to recuse themselves from weighing in on Roe matters, and if they will not, for them to be stripped of their positions for perjury if they weigh in contrary to their positions when questioned by the people’s representatives. I realize this may end up just being a “political” statement and that there may be no “mechanism” to remove justices from their seats. But it’s going to take a lot of motivated people to make needed changes in thsi country, and the SCOTUS is very vulnerable right now to scrutiny from people on both sides. And is the unity we need. The GOP plays this way. We must this time. Our motives are salient.
I also think Clarence Thomas must recuse himself in matters dealing with the insurrection. His wife was involved in planning the most dangerous and traitorous act vs our government in its entire history. The Rosenbergs were executed for far less after WW2. Clarence is not his wife, granted. But he comforts her daily. And that is also prohibited by the 14th – sec 3.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or “comfort” to the enemies thereof.
So when people talk about adding four justices to the court, the Constitution actually obliges us to remove four justices and nominate four more unless they do some heavy “recusing” in the next few weeks – and before that ruling becomes public and starts changing lives for American women.
Please share these thoughts with your representatives, family and friends. This is a war vs women now and the attackers are drunk with power and will not stop. Under it all, there is this ruling class mentality that exists in authoritarian governments; it has now crept into our government, exaggerated by four years of Trump, and it must now be excised from all branches of our government.
Thank You
Joseph Aronesty
josepharonesty@gmail.com @EnglishCodeWord
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