The U.S. Supreme Court is illegitimate
The U.S. Supreme Court is illegitimate and not qualified to weigh in on critical matters of American public policy. It has not earned the consent of the governed, and thus its opinion isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.
Three of its members who voted — in defiance of the majority will of the people — to gut Americans’ reproductive rights were nominated by a twice-impeached former occupant of the Oval Office who himself was illegitimate: He never earned so much as a plurality (much less a majority) of the popular vote, despite having the overt backing of a hostile authoritarian foreign power that interfered in our election for his benefit; and when a majority of American voters cast ballots to remove him from office in 2020, he waged a coup attempt, fueled by lies, to try to stay in power.
Those same three members were confirmed by U.S. senators who represent a minority of the American population — mostly rural, demographically homogeneous conservative states which are not where a majority of Americans live and which in no way represent the collective diversity or sentiment of the broader American public.
One of those three faced credible sexual assault allegations during his confirmation hearings; a fourth was accused of sexual harassment and is married to an active participant in the coup attempt of January 6, 2021.
In short, none of them belong on the court to begin with.
Conversely, the three justices who voted against this despicable ruling were all appointed by presidents who won both the popular vote and Electoral College each time they ran.
With this ruling, the Supreme Court has forfeited whatever remaining vestiges of validity it may once have had (which, to be clear, was never much). It represents activist minority rule, empowered by the failure of a perhaps irredeemably broken system of government.
