The Roberts Supreme Court: Too Extreme for Voters
As for Taney, he enraged the Northern half of the nation with his dreadful Dred Scott ruling in 1857. Considered a catalyst for the Civil War, the case helped lift Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860.
Taney viciously denied all Blacks any rights "which the white man is bound to respect." This made free states see red. Taney was the ugly face of antebellum America, President Andrew Jackson's man.
Taney, from a slave state, went further: He decreed that Blacks, free or enslaved, could never become American citizens. Free states already hated slavecatchers for crossing borders to capture fugitives. The Dred Scott decision raised a hue and cry at a terrible injustice.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calls the current Supreme Court "rogue." Yes, sitting on high, judging the rest of us, with no checks or balances on their power. (Hello, James Madison?) Five of the nine were named by a president who lost the popular vote.
Roberts also overturned voting rights and campaign finance reform.
Other critics like Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., say the Roberts Court is "captured" by dark money, with no enforceable ethics code on their conduct, plush vacations and lavish gifts. (Hello, Clarence Thomas?)
Remember the Supreme Court answers to nobody, with nine unelected justices given the last word (or vote) on democracy. I mean literally: 5 to 4, Bush v. Gore.
Roberts and alter-ego Taney felt they could turn the tide of American progress in the ocean of justice.
Now in an election year, Republicans don't talk so loud, but make no mistake. They are still on the war path against health and human rights for women and girls, on the state and federal level.
The Alabama Supreme Court decision on IVF embryos only intensified the storm.
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