Reshaping America, Conservatively

A NEW BOOK by Supreme court researcher Ian Milhiser titled "The Agenda: How A Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America", is one in which the title itself provides a description of the book's central thesis. With congress long and deeply polarized, reduced to ineffectiveness, the U.S. Supreme court has become the default law maker in America, a court packed deliberately by republican congressioinal majorities with far right wing justices legislating a conservative agenda from the bench. republicans have for decades decried "legislating from the bench" as intolerable, a liberal vice, against which they will fight endlessly, but here they are, enabling the very same practice, which seeems to be acceptalbe as long as the resulting rendered court decisions provide de fato legislation which favors conservative agendas. In many areas, including labor union law, religious freedom, among others, the court, which is more conservative leaning than it has been in decades, is remaking America into a country governed by conservative law. Astute Republicans, to the extent that there are any, have realized for years that the Republican agenda is not populaar with a majority of Americans, because it favors the wealthy, and caters to the white Christian powerful but shrinking demographic. Unable to pass sweepiong legislation enacting their agenda, they have turned to a strategy of packing the judicial system with as many right wing judges as possible, to gain conservative rulings at all levels, especially in the high court. The main components of this far right aganda are making the United States economy into a purely free market, neo-liberal pro business ownership system, and to insinuate the Christian religion ever more deeplly into American institutions, particularly and including the government. This grand scheme to reshape American society by reshaping American law through the court system will ultimately fail. Women will regain and retain their reproductive freedom, cooperative economics, that dreaded socialism, will continued to play a large role in the American economic system, as it has for many decades, and the United States will continue to be a secular democracy,, with religious freedoom, tolerance, and diversity, just as the founders intended. And ultimately the judicial system, whether manned by liberal, conservative, or moderate justices, will have little or nothing to fo with it. America is fundamentally a progressive country, surveys indicate, and progressive change is desirable to most Americans. In America, we the American people determine teh ultimate nature of American society, always have, and will once again.