This Supreme Court does not deserve our faith
Bayonne, N.J.: Justice Clarence Thomas has expressed dismay at the recent leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade, comparing it to infidelity and saying it has changed the culture of the nation’s highest court. If this is the first instance that he or any of his colleagues have noticed this betrayal of their non-partisan mission, then they are all past retirement. Ever since Mitch McConnell, with a year to go until an election, denied the sitting president his constitutional duty to name a justice, it has been painfully obvious the court is becoming a tool to promote partisan agendas. Perhaps Thomas noticed when Republicans filled a seat on the court in another election year, a nomination rushed through the Senate within weeks of the 2020 general election. Did Thomas also miss the charade of the previous two Senate hearings when the Republican nominees baldfaced lied about their beliefs and opinions? Others have chimed in that this is unprecedented, but clearly, they forgot some of the leaks that served to inform the public, like the Pentagon Papers or the profiling during the Civil Rights movement. Criminals or patriots, this country has a long history of common citizens taking a leap of faith and practicing civil disobedience when freedom is being challenged in secret.
I won’t say whether abortion is right or wrong or under what circumstances it might be acceptable because that was decided at the highest level years ago. I do know that governments are not empowered to legislate morality but love to play God.