Loss of rights. For decades, American evangelical groups have trained a generation of lawyers to infiltrate the courts and arrive at rulings like the next of the Supreme Court calling for the annulment of abortion
Faith is a powerful force that moves mountains. For Martin Luther King, it was “taking the first step without seeing the whole ladder”. Only sometimes even God needs a catwalk.
Donald Trump descended in front of her in June 2015 on the arm of his wife, a model with the face of an angel dressed in white. Christian fundamentalists are quick to recognize symbols and signs of God on Earth, but at first they struggled to see the messiah in that adulterous reality TV tycoon who appeared in the tabloids with Playboy bunnies. Until the year 2000, he defended the right to abortion as “a personal decision to be left to women and their doctors”, but already in his book “The America We Deserve” he explained that although he went on to defend ” women’s right to choose,” the medical procedure bothered him.
He flirted with the presidential race for the second time and still didn’t know which direction the wind was blowing. George W. Bush ended up winning the election twice, thanks to the Supreme Court and the 78% white evangelicals mobilized by his electoral architect, Karl Rove. By 2011, Trump had learned his lesson. In an interview with CBN’s David Brody, he said he was rethinking his stance after hearing about the experience of a friend whose wife didn’t want another baby, but ended up having one. “And now it’s the light in his eyes,” he said. “So now I’m pro-life.”
It wasn’t exactly the story that would have most rightly propelled the Christian, but by the time the Republican primaries came along, the author of “The Art of the Deal” had learned the magic words. “Do you want to overthrow Roe v. Wade (which legalized abortion at the federal level in 1973)?” moderator Chris Wallace asked him in a debate. “Well, if we put two or three judges in the Supreme Court, it will happen automatically,” he predicted, “because I’m going to appoint pro-life judges. I can tell you the matter will return to the states and they’ll be the ones.” who will make the decision.
I began reading the manual of the Federalist Society, a powerful conservative and libertarian group that began in 1982 as a forum for legal discussion to plant conservative values in law schools, and eventually became the most influential group in Washington. After deciding that the Reagan Revolution had not borne the fruit they sought, the leaders concluded there were not enough candidates legally trained in the most radical values they champion to serve as quarries. The goal was to transform the country’s courts. Today, its more than 40,000 members “really determine the politics of this country,” said Amanda Hollis-Brusky, chair of the Department of Politics at Pomona University and author of two books on “The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution.” The Christian Right’s Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Cultural Heritage.
In a marriage of convenience, “the Christian right has infiltrated and changed the face of the Republican Party, which for years has been more corporative and anti-regulatory, to focus on cultural wars since the mid-1990s,” explains the expert. “Newt Gingrich (the former congresswoman who presided over Bill Clinton’s impeachment for his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky) introduced the strategy of mobilizing more around outrage and against the government.” Abortion, same-sex marriage, immigration… The most divisive issues that can stir people’s moods are also the most profitable politically.
Members of the conservative legal elite who have grown up under the wing of the Federalist Society to transform the country in the image and likeness of Christian teaching are Judges John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and, of course, all three of the new generation Trump completed the conservative supermajority initiative initiated by Bush to fulfill his abortion prediction: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Comey Barrett. Six out of nine.
For the evangelical Pentecostal wing that elevated Trump to the highest positions on the power ladder, the legalization of abortion in 1973 was a way to murder children destined to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth. Such as the massacre of the innocent with which King Herod tried to abort the coming of the Messiah announced by the Magi.
With the arrival of these last three Supreme Court justices, the fate of Roe vs. Wade determined. “The only way to avoid it would have been to defeat Trump in 2016 or remove him on the first impeachment, as it should have been,” laments Larry Tribe, one of the most prominent constitutional attorneys in the United States, emeritus. professor at Harvard and co-founder of the American Constitution Society. “The Trump administration’s project was to nominate and confirm judges who would do just this: return control of the privacy, autonomy, dignity and bodily integrity of all people, especially women, to political power.”
In addition to validating the Mississippi law that led to the annulment of the verdict that protected abortion nationwide, the legal opinion written by Judge Samuel Alito on behalf of the majority of the court, as it has been leaked, opens the door to null and void. explain other recent social conquests that, like abortion, are neither specifically protected by the 1789 constitution nor rooted in the country’s tradition. “I definitely see[judicial]attacks on transsexuals, same-sex marriages, contraceptives, the morning-after pill… There are even politicians in some states who claim they can make interracial marriages illegal,” Tribe warns.
Posts to predict, Hollis Brusky bets that if the fall of Roe vs. Wade is confirmed “we’ll see states veto gay marriages just to test Obergefell vs. Hodges borders,” the sentence that legalized same-sex marriage at the federal level in 2015.
For those who, from afar, view the collapse of individual liberties in the United States as another American eccentricity, attorney and professor Mary Ziegler, an expert in constitutional law and American conservatism, warns that her country is “the canary in the mine.” that should warn everyone. “It’s easy to say in Europe, wow, what’s going on with those people? That could never happen here. And you know what? The Americans didn’t think it could happen here either. But I didn’t either. thought Brexit could happen, or Marine Le Pen could have so much support If you live in Europe wake up and realize you have to do something, that you can’t fall asleep and take what you have for granted.
More than faith, half a century ago, when the anti-abortion movement began, it would have taken a lot of optimism to believe that the fall of a judgment like Roe v. Wade would be possible. Those who trust in faith, however, are not afraid to move mountains. Some even know how to interpret the rules written by God. According to Lou Engle, leader of Charismatic Christianity of America, a Pentecostal organization that emphasizes miracles and the intervention of the Holy Spirit, Trump’s Supreme Court list counted 25 candidates, “but the only one from God: Amy Coney Barrett.”
Since her days at the University of Notre Dame, first as a law student and then as a professor, Trump’s latest Supreme Court appointee had caught the attention of the self-proclaimed “prophets” of Dominion Theology, a term coined to describe the philosophy of politics. active conservative Christians trying to infiltrate the civilian government to create a nation ruled by Christians according to the teachings of the Bible.
For such a task it was necessary to unite all the Christians of the world, not just the evangelicals. Amy Comey Barrett grew up in a community of Catholics with an “intense faith” called the People of Praise, which would later spread across the country. In it, leaders were consulted on everything from marriage to household budgets, and their children only had relationships with other Christians “who were serious in the faith.” Barrett was the first in her class, graduated cum laude, and possessed a supernatural energy that has enabled her to combine her work with the raising of seven children – and set herself an example that no pregnancy ends a career – two of adopted them and own with Down syndrome.
Judge Anthony Scalía himself trained her in the arts on the Supreme Court before he died, hiring her as his legal assistant. As a vehicle for the Dominionists of the Federalist Society promoting her, Trump first nominated her to a federal judge in 2017 and two years later, when she was just 48, made her the sixth conservative Supreme Court voter, just one week. before Joe Biden won the election. elections, giving the Dominionists a supermajority able to withstand any weakness in the court.
“Head judge John Roberts, who has so far avoided voting that sentences were too extreme, has lost control,” said Amanda Hollis-Brusky, a legal expert on Supreme Court policy.
With the death of legendary judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, champion of women both in real life and in the movies, the opportunity came from Coney Barnett. After her candidacy as the youngest Supreme Court judge, the state of Mississippi dared to request the annulment of Roe v. Wade. But Roe vs. Wade wasn’t the target, it’s just the beginning.
Source: La Verdad
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