Thanks to last week’s Supreme Court rulings, half of the nation’s women who need an abortion can no longer find a safe and legal one, and not a single American is safe when they go outside. public, with or without a firearm. Now any location could instantly turn into an OK Corral.

In all my reading this past weekend to write this, I have not seen anyone note that Thursday’s decision was made while the fourth public hearing into the violent Capitol insurgency of January 6, 2021 was being held and being broadcast. on television and radio. These four hearings were incredibly impressive about the strength of our democratic institutions (not the fragility, in my view): the system held, despite the litany of appalling efforts to undermine it. However, that only held because several public servants – people who right-wingers often call a kind of polluted political molluscs – held fast to the oaths they took, the promises they made to serve us . And they continued to hold firm despite the threats and realities of violence inflicted on them by those who were trying to make America despotic again.

According to the Hightower Lowdown (v. 24, no. 4, May 2022), the Supreme Court supermajority we have now hung over us is not so much the result of Republican control as it is the result of corporate control. on the Republicans. A shrewd, nondescript Federalist Society attorney named Leonard Leo, who is “a devout fanatic” of our Constitution as “a legal structure to enshrine the rights of property as supreme over all others and protect the wealthy of the Democratic majority”, he’s the guy who picked Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett for Trump’s Supreme Court picks. It was part of a corporate plan to control the courts spawned years ago by tobacco lobbyist Lewis Powell, a plan that previously encompassed the other three (Alito, Roberts and Thomas). This influence has trickled down to the lower courts over these years, promising to erase democratic guarantees of human rights on a case-by-case basis.

Meanwhile, they’ve found the perfect equation to bring the Flotsom to fight the Jetsom, committing genocide of the lower class while they rub their greedy and dirty hands together.

Trudy Wischemann is a true populist writer. You can send your political dismay to him c/o PO Box 1374, Lindsay CA 93247.

This column is not a news article but the opinion of the author and does not reflect the views of The Sun-Gazette newspaper.