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The Supreme Court as a Nothingburger, continued The Supreme Court has become a Nothing. No one will look to it any more for a balanced or sane pronouncement on the law and rule of law. It tossed aside a 49-year precedent on a vital
issue—who has the right to tell women and girls what to do with their bodies even when raped or victims of incest or having a severe miscarriage? In doing so, it has spread chaos throughout the land and abused women everywhere. |
This, even though its most recent three appointees swore under oath that this law was established precedent. Thus the court feels free to throw out all established precedents and
declare themselves a wrecking crew to nullify any law they and their corporate and Opus Dei sponsors feel uncomfortable with-- | Planned Parenthood chief medical officer Dr. Colleen McNicholas talks with Rachel Maddow about how state abortion bans are forcing women in medical need to endure potentially life-threatening suffering. MSNBC |
Damn the American people. Damn women. Damn girls who are raped. Damn
those of other faiths or none (even though they too are American citizens) who do not believe that a sperm and egg are a human person. Damn married gay couples. A nothingburger. Another meaning of a nothingness experience. Webster’s dictionary
defines “Nothingburger” this way: Something completely insignificant, especially that which was previously hyped or promised to be very significant. In a brilliant article published in the NYT, Pulitzer prize winning author and watcher of the Supreme Court, Linda Greenhouse, tells us in the title of the article that “Religious Doctrine, Not the Constitution, Drove the Dobbs Decision.”* In fact, she has decided to file the article not under a category on law but under “religion.” The decision echoes that of the praying
football coach and another requiring Maine to subsidize parochial school tuition. |
MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber, The Nation’s Joan Walsh and New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse, to discuss the Dobbs decision and its impact on SCOTUS legitimacy. MSNBC | She tells us that It was not constitutional analysis but religious doctrine that drove the opposition to Roe. And it was the court’s
unacknowledged embrace of religious doctrine that has turned American women into desperate refugees fleeing their home state in pursuit of reproductive health care. |
Religion is playing a “pervasive role” on today’s Supreme Court,
she warns us. Of course it is. An Opus Dei operative at Heritage Foundation nominated six of its appointees. If this court has its way, it will reduce the American experiment, tarnished that it is, to nothing. “Power corrupts
and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The unsupreme court is on its way to absolute corruption rendering the American community a no-community, a no-nation, a nothing. |
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Do you recognize today’s Supreme Court as a nothingburger? How do we move beyond that sorry situation? “Religious Doctrine, Not the Constitution, Drove the Dobbs Decision.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/opinion/abortion-religion-supreme-court.html See Matthew Fox, “Opus Dei,” in Fox, The Pope’s War, pp.106-124. Banner Image: The Supreme Court nothingburger. Collage from Wikimedia Commons images |
The Pope’s
War: Why Ratzinger’s Secret Crusade Has Imperiled the Church and How It Can Be Saved The Pope’s War offers a provocative look at three decades of corruption in the Catholic Church, focusing on Josef Ratzinger,
Pope Benedict XVI. The final section in the book focuses on birthing a truly catholic christianity. Matthew Fox presents insights from his 12-year, up-close-and-personal battle with Ratzinger, tracing the historical roots of degradation in the Church and offering a new way to understand why Benedict XVI is now mired in crisis as Pope. Fox then outlines his vision for a new Catholicism-one that is not Vatican-based but truly universal, celebrating critical thinking, diversity, and
justice. “This book should be read by everybody, not only for its ferocious courage, but also for its vision for what needs to be saved from the destructive forces that threaten authentic Christianity.” ~ Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope. | |
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