Fakedit: Yeah I think most of us know that Roe V Wade is technically about privacy, which is only 90% related to bodily autonomy.
GOOD NEWS: President Biden just passed an Executive Order mandating that all States allow Abortions to Continue! He also requested 10 fresh virgin males under the age of 20 be presented to the White House for...inspection. Per week. They will not be returned. All Hail the Executive Order!
The question is not which body is MORE authoritarian. The question is how to fix ALL the government. Not making one stronger because you don't like the other one.
...I hope I'm missing something, because it looks like you're attacking the concept of a reasonable Executive Order by inventing a really weird and outlandish one?
That's not... convincing.
I am sympathetic to concerns over the growing overreach of the executive branch. I'm anti-
faauthoritarian, and became an adult under Bush W. I would choose to empower Congress if it was up to me.
I'm even a big critic of Obama for his part in the "war on terror", he doesn't get a pass. He's another war criminal in a long line of US presidents.
Look... Whatever you think of abortion, and I agree that it's sad: The federal government forcing states to allow something isn't authoritarian.
If Biden declared that murder was legal, that would not be authoritarian. It would be really dumb, but it wouldn't be authoritarian.
The bigger issue is that a precedent of "fuck the Supreme Court" has serious long-term problems. SCOTUS shot down a lot of Trump's bullshit over the last term, amd that worked because everybody was used to following their decisions.
<politician you like> will not win every election ever. Any expansion of executive power to rule by fiat will later be used to impose <policy you hate>.
The biggest issue here is that most people don't want Roe overtured, and only a tiny minority support a total ban, but polls show they also favor restricting abortion earlier than Roe allows. Most polls I've seen (from all political points) suggest that if you put the Mississippi 15 week law that started this to a national vote, it woukd pass. Overwhelmingly. That's why comstant challenges are even possible.
This is less of a concern with the feared downstream consequences. Very close to a supermajority of Republican voters support keeping gay marriage legal, and that's the most popular of the feared fallout attacks. Reviving miscegnation and sodomy bans is so unpopular that it comes close to the error margin.
Maybe I should have let this sit, as it is 100% correct. Even the Supreme Court may someday be more Liberals than Conservatives. What then, huh?
Frankly, it's a flawed institution under any side. It's meant to impartially interpret the Constitution, which is very obviously out the window. Everyone knew the new Justices were lying in their hearings, and Obama's pick was denied on literally only partisan grounds. But even the Constitution is an extremely flawed document which (pragmatically) can no longer be updated as it was INTENDED to be.
If we were still passing amendments, that would go a long way to restoring my faith in the American Constitution. But that would mean democracy.