Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr.: The high court’s conservative majority has sabotaged all manner of democratically enacted laws.
; only 28 percent said it should be overturned.Thus the problem with the question posed by Alito’s defenders: Can it be anti-democratic to throw the abortion issue back to state legislatures? It’s not just that most people plainly disagree with endingOver the past 30 years, conservative Supreme Court nominees testified about abortion rights during their Senate confirmation hearings.
The court’s conservative majority has sabotaged all manner of democratically enacted laws: environmental and labor regulations, limits on the role of money in politics. The court’s decisions on voting rights and gerrymandering are anti-democratic on their face since they enable minority rule in the states that would be legislating on abortion. And the justices’ refusal to be candid about their designs onmatters.
Conservatives should understand that a change as radical as the one Alito contemplates almost always blows up in its authors’ faces.
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