We Have the Tools to Defeat the Supreme Court. All We Need Is the Will.
The Supreme Court’s ultraconservative majority is determined to block progressive reforms. Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt both faced a similar problem, and the way they tackled it shows that there’s no reason to let judges strangle democracy.
The United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC. (TexasGOPVote.com / Flickr)
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, New York congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for Supreme Court justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to be impeached. Both, she said, had lied at the hearings that led to their appointment.
Gorsuch in particular told senators in 2017 that Roe v. Wade was a “precedent of the United States Supreme Court” and that he would have refused to put himself forward for judicial office if politicians like Donald Trump had asked him to overturn it. In June 2022, he added his voice to the five-judge majority that overturned the “precedent.”
AOC was facing up to a question that everyone should be considering. Assuming that socialists and radicals mean what we have said about the necessity of securing women’s freedom over their bodies, what can be done to break the Republican Supreme Court majority?
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