SCOTUS vampires

Wednesday evening, an extremely conservative SCOTUS decided it was going to bear its ill-gotten teeth. All of the horrors that were warned for years were finally materialized and the Court destroyed Roe v. Wade — and women’s reproductive rights — without even issuing an opinion to the American people.

We could talk about how evil the bounty statute Texas passed is — yeah, it’s pretty evil to have neighbors spy on each other and their sex lives.

We could also talk about how the Supreme Court side stepped it’s duty to uphold the rule of law by not staying the statute due to a completely made-up technicality. Pretty damn cowardly if you ask me.

We could also talk about what a blow this is for poor women across the country — which is massive.

But a lot of my shock and honest resentment toward the legal profession is how there was no counter to the Federalist Society gaining power and destroying Roe.

I get it, becoming a lawyer in and of itself means you end up accepting legal narratives that aren’t true. Your brain gets fried by corporations and the wealthy. You begin to think about what the law allows, and not what is just.

But the most damning narrative is that law really is about calling balls and strikes — a morally neutered way to view what law is. This is what gave Scalia and his Federalist Society ilk so much power. Both originalism and federalism rely on this narrative so that the federal government just doesn’t legislate long-lasting democratic norms into existence.

And that’s what the conservatives are really afraid of — a Brown court that actually understands its own power in a post civil war moment. Women’s rights unfortunately just ends up being a proxy to keep the Christian right engaged and funding the Federalist Society. The long term goal is to keep the country away from reaching any sense of equity for the masses.

As long as left-leaning and center left leaning lawyers and judges continue to accept the balls and strike narrative, the more power the Federalist Society will amass with their completely asinine opinions. Harvard and Yale — centers of extreme wealth and capital — are doing us no good with the teachers they produce either as they are birthed from the conservative fantasy yolk that plagues us today.