• fiat_lux@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Egregious has been escalating at the Supreme Court, in my opinion they’ve been testing the waters to see what the American public will tolerate.

    • Roe v Wade overturn showed that Americans will tolerate the removal of rights for half the population
    • the fake web designer who pretended to refuse service to LGBT+ decision showed they are willing to engage with dishonest hypothetical situations and the people will tolerate it
    • the affirmative action decision showed that when marginalised communities are further institutionally marginalised, there will be little backlash

    They’ve been steadily entrenching conservative power. Sotomayor has been warning everyone for years, but when one of the sitting judges publicly says that a decision is “unjustified exercise of power,” and the President says the court isn’t making good decisions, shit is not going well and it doesn’t give me much hope.