12-12-2021, 02:10 PM
Quote:"The Supreme Court’s position is neither scrupulous nor neutral," Litt wrote. "Instead, Kavanaugh and his fellow conservative justices seem prepared to impose the will of an anti-abortion minority with a kind of one-two punch. In a ruling in the near future, the Court’s conservatives are likely to hand autonomy over women’s bodies to state legislatures. And in rulings in the recent past, the Court has set those state legislatures up, via gerrymandering and voter suppression, to ban abortion regardless of whether those bans are supported by the people of their state."'Tyranny of the minority': DC insider torches Brett Kavanaugh - Alternet.org
He went on to explain how the judicial help would be no match for the Republican legislative edge in many states. Although Democratic voters tend to dominate metropolitan areas, like Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and even Atlanta, the big city edge does not always fare well for the state. "The goal of gerrymandering politicians is to dilute the power of the opposing party’s voters by 'packing' them into a small number of districts; when Democrats cluster in cities, they essentially pack themselves," Litt wrote. "As the urban-rural divide in politics has grown, so too has the GOP’s edge." According to Litt, the impending outcome of the Dobbs case may set a disturbing precedent for the country as it embarks down a path that represents the beliefs and political agenda of a small minority.