SCOTUS decision deserves a stronger response than Schuette got
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. -- Frederick Douglass
The right wing has obviously figured out that that they can do just fine by neutering congress and relying on the Supreme Court and liberal compliance or passivity to roll back each and every hard-won civil rights victory of the past 50 years.
SCOTUS majority's latest assault has public-employee unions hanging on by their finger nails and gives right-wing, Christian-owned corporations like Hobby Lobby the power to deny women access to contraception under Obamacare. Hopefully yesterday's disastrous rulings will be met with a louder, better organized and more militant response than the hand-wringing lamentation and even quiet support on the part of Democrats and union leaders in response to the last round decisions on voting rights and affirmative action. In particular, April's racist Schuette Decision, which demolished affirmative action in Michigan and was seen as this generation's Plessy v. Ferguson, was met with deathly silence coming from Obama and the Democratic leadership.
It's my belief that their lack of response to Schuette set the stage for the cutting off of the water Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: SCOTUS decision deserves a stronger response than Schuette got:
