Last Friday's overturning of Roe v. Wade and the failure of Congress and the Biden regime to rectify Friday's decision is further proof that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can be trusted. More and more evidence of this has been piling up regarding other issues lately. For example, President Biden recently appointed an advocate of cutting and privatizing Social Security to the Social Security Advisory Board. But it seemed like a goal of protecting Roe v. Wade was the only thing the Democrats still had going for them – and now they've blown that too.
The Democratic-led Congress recently had a chance to codify Roe v. Wade by passing a new federal statute. Yet somehow they failed to pass this bill.
Roe v. Wade was a landmark decision, and – like it or not - the legal basis for the 1973 ruling is pretty solid. Roe v. Wade is predicated on the Constitution's right to privacy – a right that should be unassailable. Not everyone liked Roe v. Wade, but the legal reasoning for the ruling is ironclad.
Because Congress has failed to do its job and has not codified Roe v. Wade, can the President do anything? You bet! Odds are that he won't, but he surely can.
In the early 1960s, civil rights activists rightly urged President John F. Kennedy to issue an executive order to ensure that public accommodations could not discriminate on the basis of race. They said such an order would simply enforce protections that already appeared in the Constitution. In fact, Kennedy did issue Executive Order 10925, which said government contractors could not engage in racial discrimination.
An executive order to uphold Roe v. Wade would simply enforce constitutional protections that are supposed to already exist. For as long as anyone can remember, overturning Roe v. Wade was a goal of many abortion rights foes, so I'm sure abortion rights supporters had already drafted what an executive order might say in case it was overturned.
So why hasn't Biden issued an executive order? If I was President, I would have had one ready by the end of last Friday.
Over the past couple years, we've seen that unelected agencies – including some that are part of the Biden administration - think they can issue orders to enforce laws that do not even exist. So why won't an elected President issue an order to uphold the Constitution's right to privacy, which actually does exist?
Now it's clear that the Democrats are going to fight as hard to protect Roe v. Wade as they have for civil liberties in general, education, peace, a living wage, and single payer healthcare. In other words, they won't fight for it at all. An online comment said the Democrats' electoral strategy is to let bad things happen, campaign on fear of worse things happening, let worse things happen, campaign on fear of even worse things happening, let even worse things happen, and so on. Lately, the Democrats have directly instituted some of the worst things themselves. The main point is that the Democrats are already raising money off of Roe v. Wade being overturned. They let it happen and not be rectified, and now they're fundraising off of it. They failed, yet they want to be rewarded for it.
The reason the Democrats haven't codified Roe v. Wade is that they'd no longer have anything to run on.
More people are now seeing this for the con that it is, but the major parties are such cults that it has taken much too long for most folks to realize what a grift they are.
Meanwhile, Biden has now made a deal with Republicans to appoint a right-wing lawyer who defended a highly questionable Kentucky anti-abortion law to a federal judgeship.
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Executive order time!
Posted by Bandit at 11:02 AM
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