The only thing that’ll save us
It’s been just over a year since SCOTUS effectively overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, and they ended their latest term with new rulings that are equally, if not more disastrous than the Dobbs decision that could unravel a great deal of progress we have made as a country. As the court goes on hiatus until the fall, it’s pretty much impossible to go online for someone’s armchair speculation about what’s next – some of it good, most of it questionable at best, with a whole lot of what-ifs, had the 2016 election swung a different way.
To be clear, 2016 may have been the most important election of our lifetimes, and the number of conservative federal judges appointed in its aftermath will continue to have serious implications for decades. It was a chance to appoint four new justices that could have swung the courts to the left for the first time in nearly 50 years. As we lost, and much of America lost, it means that we now have to win not only in 2024, but in 2028 as well – the only way to swing the balance of power back to 5-4 in our favor, as three of the most conservative justices on the court will be looking at retirement over that period.
If there was ever a time to drown out the voices of the people saying that voting doesn’t matter, this is it. In fact, it may be the only thing that will. Let’s make sure we vote Republicans and their backwards agenda out of the branches of power at every level – this year, next year – and well into 2028.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making