Drawn on March 29, 2024 | Published from Miami |
Judging from how things are going, perhaps a chapel is a more suitable setting for the Supreme Court to administer divine justice. Considering this judicial body's exclusively monotheistic composition (6 Catholics, 1 Protestant, 1 Anglican, 1 Jew), it isn't hard to picture their inherent predisposition to being inclined to bookmarking the gospel when navigating morally ambiguous dilemmas. Prayer beware.
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Example of their religious prerogative:
Alito, S. (2022) SCOTUS Justice Alito at 2022 religious liberty summit: U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito, YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uci4uni608E (Accessed: 2024).
MSNBC | Red Flag? justice Alito’s wife contradicts cover-up in Jan. 6 scandal (2024) YouTube. Available at: https://youtu.be/sb0R6ND8PkA?si=8U2O_yYKrQqZfzjq (Accessed: 2024).
Example of a religious argument used in legal decisions under review after the landmark Dobbs ruling:
Supreme Court of the United States, 2022. No. 19–1392. Dobbs, State Health Officer of the Mississippi Department of Health, et Al. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization et Al., Washington DC: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22067246/dobbs-decision.pdf, p.2.“The right to obtain an abortion is [...] an essential component of “ordered liberty.” The Court finds that the right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and tradition. [...] The Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause provides substantive, as well as procedural, protection for “liberty”—has long been controversial.”
Supreme Court of Alabama SC-2022-0515 (2024) publicportal-api.alappeals.gov. Available at: https://publicportal-api.alappeals.gov/courts/68f021c4-6a44-4735-9a76-5360b2e8af13/cms/case/343D203A-B13D-463A-8176-C46E3AE4F695/docketentrydocuments/E3D95592-3CBE-4384-AFA6-063D4595AA1D , p.35 onward. (Accessed: 2024). “Man's creation in God's image is the basis of the general prohibition on the intentional taking of human life. See Genesis 9:6 (King James) ("Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.")”
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