Friday, January 7, 2022

Taney Court II: the Right to Infect

And once again, the Supreme Court's liberals are acting like jurists, while the "conservatives" are acting like Twitter trolls. Dahlia Lithwick, writing at Slate, offers a horrified summary. It seems that the conservative wing of the Roberts Court is ready to declare that the emergency measures the Biden administration is undertaking to control covid are to be forbidden under doctrines that cannot be found anywhere in precedent, statute law, or the Constitution. The Roberts Court is living up to my description as Taney Court II.

Three-and-a-half years ago, I wrote: “Federal law is now a matter of whim. The full extent of this failure will be felt in all aspects of our lives. Our very lives will be in danger.” And now, it seems, the Supreme Court is ready to declare plague-spreading a constitutional right, or at least one that can only be forbidden by a deadlocked Congress.

1 comment:

The Blog Fodder said...

Once you control the Supreme Court, you control the government. Ask Orban, Poland, Putin, Ukraine. We have a couple of Supreme Courts, neither of which will allow anything to be done about corruption. Our judiciary is corrupt from the bottom to the top. Trump has done his best to make sure that your courts are also corrupt. Fun times for the crooks and liars