Justices and Economics
"This could have massive political implications for divisive issues like abortion, gay rights and medical research."
When President Bush nominates his conservative choice for the Supreme Court this weekend, their will be many screams from the left, center and right. Normative palpitations of women's rights and unborn children will chime like a bursting glockenspiel. Pundits and priests will be geared for a debate which would make any middle school forensics instructor grimace.
However, there is more to these nominations than poor language skills and frothy mouths. When the nomination is confirmed, an emerging economic decline is inevitable.
First, the issue of stem cell research will be closed and new experiments, patents and technology will be moved into other markets ( i.e. countries).
For even if you have a moral inclination to close a market; the demand does not vanish. China and Europe will shift into the forefront of bio- research and reap the benefits of new medical markets that Pfizer and Sanofi Aventis could only dream.
Second, the issue of abortion can finally be dealt with in a compassionate and conservative manner. Roe v. Wade will be overturned and abortion will be a thing of the past, like slavery, prostitution and drug abuse. However, there is a flip side to this arrangement. Abortions will continue; in fact abortions will only be available to the wealthy. Those with the economic means to leave the country and find medical assistance elsewhere, can you say: Bonjour! Economically challenged (11.3% of the U.S. population) groups will not be able to exercise this class segregated option and the state will pick up the tab; in the form of health services, adoption and schooling. Long live America moral socialism.
Finally, the issue of gay marriage will be extinguished. The federal court will circumvent the legislative process and end the horrific notion of two men or women sharing their lives with financial and legal assurances. Economically, gays will leave this country for other suitable forms of government which are more progressive. Thus they will be following John Locke's instruction, in The Second Treatise on Government (see Chapter 8-9) , and leave a government which is not representative. Consequently, a large group of hard working, diligent and civically active citizens will migrate north. And I thought the power of America was built on its diversity not its bigotry.
When President Bush nominates his conservative choice for the Supreme Court this weekend, their will be many screams from the left, center and right. Normative palpitations of women's rights and unborn children will chime like a bursting glockenspiel. Pundits and priests will be geared for a debate which would make any middle school forensics instructor grimace.
However, there is more to these nominations than poor language skills and frothy mouths. When the nomination is confirmed, an emerging economic decline is inevitable.
First, the issue of stem cell research will be closed and new experiments, patents and technology will be moved into other markets ( i.e. countries).
For even if you have a moral inclination to close a market; the demand does not vanish. China and Europe will shift into the forefront of bio- research and reap the benefits of new medical markets that Pfizer and Sanofi Aventis could only dream.
Second, the issue of abortion can finally be dealt with in a compassionate and conservative manner. Roe v. Wade will be overturned and abortion will be a thing of the past, like slavery, prostitution and drug abuse. However, there is a flip side to this arrangement. Abortions will continue; in fact abortions will only be available to the wealthy. Those with the economic means to leave the country and find medical assistance elsewhere, can you say: Bonjour! Economically challenged (11.3% of the U.S. population) groups will not be able to exercise this class segregated option and the state will pick up the tab; in the form of health services, adoption and schooling. Long live America moral socialism.
Finally, the issue of gay marriage will be extinguished. The federal court will circumvent the legislative process and end the horrific notion of two men or women sharing their lives with financial and legal assurances. Economically, gays will leave this country for other suitable forms of government which are more progressive. Thus they will be following John Locke's instruction, in The Second Treatise on Government (see Chapter 8-9) , and leave a government which is not representative. Consequently, a large group of hard working, diligent and civically active citizens will migrate north. And I thought the power of America was built on its diversity not its bigotry.
posted by JDAvignon at 7:14 PM
3 Comments:
I really hope that the Bush administration has expended too much of their political capital to be able to push a strongly conservative justice through the approval process.
Was there ever a time in U.S. history when the appointing Supreme Court Justices wasn't so politically charged?
Seems to me these judges need to be above all of that political bias. We need the ultimate free-thinkers on the bench.
*No. By free-thinkers I do not mean liberal pricks. ;)
There is no need for political leanings of any kind. The court is a critical link in the Montesquieu model of checks and balances.
This Supreme Court appointee situation is so troubling. A recent radio commentor summed up the unfolding crisis in this cogent fashion: with the deluge of strongly conservative judges W has already appointed, and with the impending appointment of no fewer than two and possibly four Supreme Court justices, Mr. Bush is shaping a highly conservative judiciary which will serve (reign?) for the next twenty plus years. Already we've seen a conservative legislature pressing for sweeping changes in the laws of the land, and there's no reason to believe that in two years this majority will not remain in congressional power. So, we're going to be seeing a lot of conservative, backward-thinking legislation being passed in the near future. The only way we'll be able to challenge this legislation in the years to follow will be in the judiciary, but as already stated, the judiciary is in the process of being conservatively overhauled, so our challenges will likely fail. I guess it's back to the 1950s for us. Is this progress?
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