Biden's Other Taliban Problem

 


Its Mullahs wear black robes like Muqtada al Sadr in Baghdad. They preach a radical ideology and don't hesitate to impose it, especially upon women, people of colour and the economically and politically disadvantaged. Fairness has no place in their hearts.

Who are these Mullahs? They're the radical rightwing majority who control the United States Supreme Court.

The Chief Justice, John Roberts, expressed his concern that "his" court would become another partisan political agency - and so it has. Why else was it packed with cranks?

Any doubt was erased when, in the dark of last night, the US Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 not to strike down an anti-abortion law introduced in Texas. This new enactment puts a lot of Sharia law to shame.

No abortion for incest. No abortion for rape. No abortion after six weeks of pregnancy at which point many women aren't yet aware they're pregnant. But what's a draconian law like that without stoning?

The Texas law bars state officials from actually enforcing it, a design intended to make it difficult to challenge in the courts.

Usually a lawsuit aiming to block such a law as unconstitutional names state officials as defendants. Instead, the Texas law deputizes private citizens to sue anyone who performs an abortion or “aids and abets” a procedure. Plaintiffs who have no connection to the patient or the clinic may sue and recover legal fees, as well as $10,000 if they win.

Yeah, that's right. Even if you give a woman a ride to an abortion clinic you can be hunted down by the deputized posse. This is a power that will be used ruthlessly. Even going out of state for an abortion can be grounds for the zealots to haul the woman into court so long as she's ordinarily resident in Texas.



And so America's "Lord of the Flies" society takes another step into the abyss. 

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  1. TrailblazerSeptember 3, 2021 at 8:01 AM

    The US far right is no longer a fringe organization.


    https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=5cd641cb9bbc0f0bf8ca22a4&s=61319cd69d2fda9bb7aec408&linknum=4&linktot=67

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  2. TrailblazerSeptember 3, 2021 at 12:30 PM

    "in the beginning"


    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/03/texas-abortion-republicans-six-states-arkansas-florida-indiana-mississippi-north-south-dakota

    TB

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