06-26-2022, 03:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2022, 12:21 PM by Eric the Green.)
The Dred Scott Decision happened on March 6, 1857. Uranus was at 21°35 Taurus, Neptune at 19°56 Pisces. What may become known as Dobbs versus Jackson (and now already referred to just as "Dobbs"), the decision overturning Roe v Wade, happened on June 24, 2022. Uranus was at 17°27 Taurus, Neptune at 25°26 Pisces (actually more like 23 degrees, considering the effect of the position of the Earth relative to the Sun in June as opposed to March). Similar positions in the great planetary cycles, the cosmic clock of history and its rhymes and generations. The forthright assertions of Justice Taney in Dred Scott putting down blacks and those of Alito in Dobbs v Jackson dismissing the claims of women are eerily similar. So are the beliefs of both that these arrogant decisions would settle the divisions in the country. As Stephen Colbert calls it, kaboombaya. Dred Scott helped foment the Civil War 3-4 years later. What will Dobbs v Jackson do in that time?
The primary rationale for the Court's ruling in Dred Scott was Justice Taney's assertion that black African slaves and their descendants were never intended to be part of the American social and political landscape. I quote Taney from wikipedia:
We think ... that [black people] are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time [of America's founding] considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them....They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order ... and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
The decision on June 24, 2022 has no well known name yet, but I think it's Dobbs versus Jackson according to Politico https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02...n-00029473
I quote here from npr: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/110230587...n-overturn
In a historic and far-reaching decision, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade on Friday, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists.
Writing for the court majority, Justice Samuel Alito said that the 1973 Roe ruling and repeated subsequent high court decisions reaffirming Roe "must be overruled" because they were "egregiously wrong," the arguments "exceptionally weak" and so "damaging" that they amounted to "an abuse of judicial authority."... "We hold," he wrote, that "the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion."
Dissenting were Justices Stephen Breyer, appointed by President Clinton, and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, appointed by President Obama. They said that the court decision means that "young women today will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers." Indeed, they said the court's opinion means that "from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of. A state can force her to bring a pregnancy to term even at the steepest personal and familial costs."
Responding to the dissent, Alito wrote “The dissent is very candid that it cannot show that a constitutional right to abortion has any foundation, let alone a ‘deeply rooted’ one, in this Nation’s history and tradition." https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/...index.html
The primary rationale for the Court's ruling in Dred Scott was Justice Taney's assertion that black African slaves and their descendants were never intended to be part of the American social and political landscape. I quote Taney from wikipedia:
We think ... that [black people] are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time [of America's founding] considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the Government might choose to grant them....They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order ... and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
The decision on June 24, 2022 has no well known name yet, but I think it's Dobbs versus Jackson according to Politico https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02...n-00029473
I quote here from npr: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/110230587...n-overturn
In a historic and far-reaching decision, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade on Friday, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists.
Writing for the court majority, Justice Samuel Alito said that the 1973 Roe ruling and repeated subsequent high court decisions reaffirming Roe "must be overruled" because they were "egregiously wrong," the arguments "exceptionally weak" and so "damaging" that they amounted to "an abuse of judicial authority."... "We hold," he wrote, that "the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion."
Dissenting were Justices Stephen Breyer, appointed by President Clinton, and Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, appointed by President Obama. They said that the court decision means that "young women today will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers." Indeed, they said the court's opinion means that "from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of. A state can force her to bring a pregnancy to term even at the steepest personal and familial costs."
Responding to the dissent, Alito wrote “The dissent is very candid that it cannot show that a constitutional right to abortion has any foundation, let alone a ‘deeply rooted’ one, in this Nation’s history and tradition." https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/politics/...index.html