Unforeseen Contingencies

SCOTUS HAS RULED!  THE WORLD HAS ENDED!  The Supreme Court has now mandated that all women must wear Handmaid's Tale red cloaks and white bonnets and keep AR-15s concealed under them.

Heh heh heh - not really.  But with two Supreme Court rulings in two days, progressives seem to think this.

In NEW YORK STATE RIFLE AND PISTOL ASSOCIATION v. BRUEN, the Supreme Court ruled that New York's draconian requirements for obtaining a concealed carry permit are unConstitutional.  The old, now defunct law held that individuals had to prove they had substantially higher risk than the average citizen in order to arm themselves.  This was obviously a terrible law, since the average citizen has the right to arm himself or herself for self defense.  In practice, it was used by corrupt authorities to bestow favors.

The majority decision was written by Justice Clarence Thomas, and released on his birthday.  Happy Birthday, Justice Thomas, and thank you for your service!  Here is the full SCOTUS decision.

And then today, in DOBBS v. JACKSON WOMEN'S HEALTH ORGANIZATION, the Supreme Court overruled the decision in ROE v. WADE (and subsequently CASEY) as confused nonsense.  In doing so, they confirmed the prediction of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who said that ROE v. WADE was badly reasoned and eventually would be overruled.  Here is the full SCOTUS decision.

It's strange that progressives and other leftists are so out of touch with reality that they cannot understand what the Supreme Court has and has not done.  At a demonstration outside the Supreme Court, Rep. Maxine Waters shrieked that women should defy the Supreme Court and get abortions.  This is bizarre, since the Supreme Court was silent on the legality of abortion and certainly did not ban them.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, vying with Rep. Waters for the stupidest comment of the day, declared at the rally that the problem is that the Supreme Court ruling is "illegitimate" and that the Supreme Court needs "checks and balances."

To put it simply, so many progressives see the Supreme Court as merely another legislator.  For them, the role of government is to issue edicts, and they think the role of the legislature (Congress), the executive, the administrative bureaucracy, and the courts  is simply to issue the edicts and policies they want.  They have no understanding of law, of of economic systems, and of causality -- at least not in social matters.

It's also so that under the surface, progressives are totalitarians.  They know how they want the world to be run and how they think people should live.  All the same, the progressives are our fellow citizens, they are now in emotional pain, and this is not the time to taunt them.  Let's show some sympathy.

Hahaha!  Just kidding.  It's always time to taunt progressives. 

// posted by Charles N. Steele @ 21:34