Date: 2024-11-22 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00022638
US SUPREME COURT
LEGITIMACY IN QUESTION
‘Breathtakingly Arrogant’: Alito Shredded For Claiming Most GOP Justices ‘Wrong’ Except Him ... MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber, The Nation’s Joan Walsh and NYT's Linda Greenhouse
LEGITIMACY IN QUESTION
‘Breathtakingly Arrogant’: Alito Shredded For Claiming Most GOP Justices ‘Wrong’ Except Him ... MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber, The Nation’s Joan Walsh and NYT's Linda Greenhouse
Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7GfuT42Zak
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
I have spent most of my life ... I am now 82 years old ... avoiding entanglement with the law. For some reason I have been very comfortable with the idea of 'right' and 'wrong'. but far less comfortable when these ideas ard written up and turned into law.
There was a point in my career when I was involved in negotiating quite substantial contracts between our US based company where I was the CFO and various governments in Africa. Our New York based corporate lawyers always briefed me prior to my trips and gave me draft contracts starting off with several dozen pages of small print legaleze all based on US law ... and, of course, in English.
Our company had a lot of success around the world, but it was not a result of the briefings I got from lawyers. Agreement is more a human construct than a legal construct ... especially when the circumstances are culturally and economically complex.
I have not given this much thought until the Supreme Court packing by Washington Republicans starting off by the GOP's refusal to allow Gorsuch's nomination by President Obama to go forward.
Elections have consequences ... and the fact that we have this Supreme Court is a result of poor choice at the ballot box.
Peter Burgess
Jun 27, 2022
MSNBC
5.03M subscribers ... 532,115 views
Nearly fifty years after Roe v. Wade was decided, the right to an abortion has been stripped away by the Supreme Court, marking the first time the Court has rescinded a right. Donald Trump’s appointees to the Court are under fire for tainting the legacy of the Court, as many believe they reversed the decision because they personally oppose abortion. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber is joined by The Nation’s Joan Walsh and Linda Greenhouse, who covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times, to discuss the legitimacy of the Court. Greenhouse writing in a New York Times piece responding to the ruling that Alito’s statement asserting that the Justices who previously backed “Roe” were wrong is “breathtakingly arrogant.”
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