Goodbye Griswold

My CCPSWAG is that there is a roughly 75% chance that "Little Nino" Alito will be confirmed as a Supreme, and that, in the event, a 90% chance that he and his model, together with "silent Bob" Thomas and the new CJ will roll back Roe vs. Wade, Griswold vs. Connecticut, the "right of privacy," and more or less anything standing between the American people and untrammeled Presidential and corporate power.

With luck, though, we will still have the vote, and hence a chance to extablish some of these things legislatively. Also, with abortion off the Supreme Court docket, the right-wing coalition of fundamentalists and the super-rich is likely to fall apart, or, better yet, spontaneously combust.

With that in mind, moderates and liberals should plan for the fire and the flood, and be prepared to come out fighting in 2006, 2008, and 2010.

Comments

  1. Anonymous10:03 PM

    Nothing matters, nothing matters, unless you fix the voting:

    http://www.verifiedvoting.org/

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  2. Anonymous6:35 AM

    Dear Pig,

    Nina Totenberg says you are nuts. Alito supports Griswold and there are still five justices who consider Roe settled - Ginsberg, Breyer, Kennedy, Souter, and Stevens.

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