You can find an authoritarian by taking out a liberal. As the Mississippi abortion bill reaches the Supreme Court, the latest proof of this is here. The lefty media companies quickly reacted to the situation by launching anti-democracy rants.
The problem, you see, is that the Mississippi law was passed by — oh the horror! — the elected representatives of the people of Mississippi. This is how democracy functions, newsflash.
Over there at CBS, “comedian” Stephen Colbert was furious. What was his resource? This poll shows that support is for Roe v. Wade61% voted in support, and 27% were against. Suffice to say, the people of Mississippi, not in a poll but through their elected…say again, that word is elected…state legislators disagree. Colbert laughed at this.
That’s more than two to one (in the poll). So if it is this unpopular, why is everyone saying it’s gonna happen? Well, I don’t want to get too technical, but — what’s the word — we don’t live in a democracy. Presidents lost five justices; the three remaining confirmed members of the Republican Senate now make up 41 million Americans, compared to the Democrats. In fact, Republican senators haven’t represented a majority of the U.S. population since 1996. Since 1996, a lot has happened. Back then, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor went to Kevin Spacey—and the Best Director was Mel Gibson.
The Republicans also have their nominees. Gibson/Spacey 2024 – Still better than Ted Cruz
As NewsBusters’ own Kristine Marsh has noted, after mocking CNN for their coverage Colbert added that “We also heard from a slightly less trusted body: The Supreme Court.”
CNN and MSNBC also displayed media hyperbole about Roe’s possible overturning.
The issue the liberal media doesn’t want to touch here is that time after time in history, judicial activists on the Supreme Court bench persist in ignoring the Constitution in favor of writing in their own political prejudices. Examples abound.
1857– Chief Justice Roger Taney, a Maryland slave holder appointed to the bench by President Andrew Jackson, used the famous Dred Scott v. Sandford case to try and write the right to slavery into the Constitution. Why? Because, to quote the late Judge Robert Bork, Taney, a slave holder himself, “was passionately convinced it must be a constitutional right” – so he tried to make it one. Because of that small scuffle called the Civil War, and the passage in 1865 of the 13th Amendment, the Constitution which ended slavery, the decision was reversed.
1896 – Justice Henry Billings Brown wrote the infamous Plessy v. Fergusondecision which approved something other than what was in the Constitution, segregation. The decision launched Democrats into writing an onslaught of “Jim Crow” laws that segregated everything from schools to public accommodations like restaurants, beaches, libraries and more. Plessy lasted as “precedent” for 58 years until overturned by another Brown – Brown v. Board of Education – in 1954. This means that there’s precedent for the Supreme Court overturning a long-standing decision it made wrongly or poorly. Roe.
1944 – Justice Hugo Black, a former Alabama Senator with a lifetime membership in the Ku Klux Klan and an FDR appointee, wrote the also infamous Korematsu v. United States decision that gave a thumbs up to FDR’s executive order setting up internment camps for Japanese-American citizens. In 2018, Chief Justice John Roberts officially stated the obvious: “The forcible relocation of U.S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.”
He wrote his 2005 book Men in Black: The Supreme Court Is Destroying America, Mark Levin adds Roe v. WadeThis is a list of bad precedents for activists. It is understandable.
This is a simple truth: liberal media celebrities simply don’t believe in democracy once they realize that the majority of Americans are not on board with their views.
So, the public seems to be groaning at Stephen Colbert, Whoopi goldberg, and many other guests on MSNBC and CNN over a possible Roe-overturning. The whole thing is nothing but a cry to create an authoritarian and anti-democratic America. A America in which a few liberal elites won’t try to enact their abortion views into law or amend the constitution by elected legislators responsive to their constituents.
They refuse to participate in the legislative process because they fear losing.
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