This isn’t much of a diary but I just thought this argument needed to get into our political discourse.
At this point we need to realize that hoping for the Judicial Branch to protect certain rights is not a given. It really never has been. Roe v. Wade was just judicial precedent, but as history has shown us precedents can be relegated to the heap of history by new precedent. The Civil Rights Act is just that, an Act of Congress, which again can be done away with and if Congress feels its not important or the judicial doesn’t respect historical carve outs. The only thing that will stop the Executive, Legislative and Judicial from playing volley ball with these rights is to write the damn rights into the Constitution. Hell the last Constitutional Amendment had to do with how Congress pays itself. Is that really more important than a women’s rights over her reproductive life? Or more important than the rights of our minority communities or lgbtq community? And finally lets take the argument away of whether any President is above the law. Lastly at the bare minimum we should get at least one more State to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. It only needs one more State to ratify it. It needs to be done tomorrow. These are fights we should have and want to have in the coming elections. Lets start to put these Republicans on the defensive. Let the American people decide whether these things are important. If they thought how Congress pays itself was important, well I think this is the battle field we should be willing to fight on. It will be a long haul, but we need to start now to begin that process. We definitely shouldn’t be scared of the fight.