The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term amidst a collapse of legitimacy, historic corruption and scandal, conflict of interest, and efforts to obstruct investigations into right-wing billionaire purchasing of influence over the High Court.

[above image] : Abortion rights advocates protested the Supreme Court’s attack on women’s rights when it ended Roe. The Court is expected to intensify its attacks on democracy in the new term. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    10·
    1 year ago

    When the KKK marches through streets with tiki torches, no state tried to stop them. Same for burning crosses in Alabama. Because the cops are in those the white robes and tacticool vests.

    When the Black Panthers protected voters 1st amendment rights with the 2nd amendment, that’s when laws were passed to stop gun ownership.

    If the left was anywhere as close as protective and expressive of their rights as the right, we would have had nationwide gun control established decades ago.

    And perhaps more protections federally too, as Congress only passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 under duress of activists and black panthers. If feminists and queer people did the same, we would have had amendments by now.