07-02-2018, 09:00 PM
(07-02-2018, 07:20 PM)Duchess Wrote: All I’m looking for is fairness applied equally across the board and I want people to retain the rights they already have.
Yeah, me too. What puts the preservation of existing rights and equal fairness more at risk than when previous Justices were replaced is:
a. Trump publicly and privately courted the Evangelical vote by promising them conservative judges, including and especially at the Supreme Court level. He got the Evangelical leaders' input and blessing on his campaign list of Supreme Court candidates and thereby secured their votes, despite all of his sacrilegious ways. I do not believe Trump would have been elected without the Evangelicals, and he probably couldn't get re-elected without them (so, I think he's motivated to keep his campaign promises to them).
b. Trump publicly promised to appoint justices who would automatically overturn Roe v Wade. No other President has publicly announced such a litmus test as it pertains to what is supposed to be the apolitical/bi-partisan court, as far as I know.
As a result, the separation of church and state is narrower than ever in the U.S., in my view. And, also in my view, Evangelicals are not inclined to respect the rights and freedoms of individuals if those rights and freedoms conflict with the Evangelicals' religious beliefs and morality judgments.