Editor: The Supreme Court is running amok, and it’s past time we got it under control.
In the year since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, abortion has been effectively banned (with extremely limited exceptions) in 14 states. Nearly 1 in 3 Americans have lost access to abortion care.
This year, the Court overturned access to clean water, affirmative action in college admissions, and student debt relief for millions of middle and low income borrowers. They’ve set the precedent of overturning policies simply because they were enacted by a Democratic president.
On top of that, the ethical crises keep piling up. We’ve seen Republican mega donors footing the bill for Clarence Thomas’s vacations, mortgage payments, and family tuition; Samuel Alito taking dinners with conservative anti-abortion activists, accepting a lavish vacation from someone with business before the Court, and allegedly leaking reproductive health decisions; and Neil Gorsuch selling property to an executive that has business before the Court just days after his lifetime appointment was finalized.
We can’t let this continue. Congress must stop the out-of-control, right-wing majority on the Supreme Court. The only way to do that is to restore ideological balance to the Court by adding four more seats.
I’m urging our legislators to stand up as a governmental body and rein in this illegitimate Court by passing the Judiciary Act.
—Linda Rockhold, via letters@sentinelcolorado.com
What about term limits, not coinciding with presidential election years? Just a thought.
Translation: “The Supreme Court doesn’t make rulings the way I want them to, so they’re illegitimate. Also, anyone who doesn’t agree with me is being partisan.”
Exactly. The people who make this argument just can’t stand that 1/2 the country disagrees with them, and/or they do not understand the law or the constitution.