In case you aren't scared enough of another George Bush presidency, read this
NYT op-ed outlining how the president can shape the Supreme Court for decades to come. Scalia and Thomas are already scary enough -- more justices like them and America is going to be a very different place.
As PFAW summed it up in an action email:
It's frightening to contemplate, but before going to the polls next month, all Americans need to think about what just one more right-wing Justice on the Supreme Court will mean:
- George Bush being allowed to deny any citizen due process;
- Dick Cheney running a secret government accountable to no one; and,
- John Ashcroft grabbing more unchecked, unconstitutional powers.
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From the right to privacy that serves as the foundation of Roe v. Wade and every American's reproductive freedom, to the separation of church and state that keeps government out of religion (and vice-versa!)... from protections against discrimination in the workplace, courtrooms and voting booths, to bedrock environmental laws, we could lose it all if anticipated Supreme Court vacancies are filled with far right ideologues.
I think my highlighted passage above really needs to be made clear to those in the religious right who want the government pushing their moral agenda -- they never think their policies through to the other side, where the government is pushing mandated RELGIOUS beliefs on the people.
Separation of church and state is for the protection of BOTH sides.