Letters

For the record, I disagree with my neighbor and former altar boy from Westhampton that 50 years of reproductive freedom was incorrectly interrupted by the Dobbs ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court [“Withering Away,” Letters, March 7]. Dobbs was bad law created, no doubt, out of good intentions, but the real crime was that it took so long to have its appropriate test by the Constitution. It is now correctly in the hands of citizens from our states, letting them decide how it should be codified.

Democrats like Mike Anthony are conspicuously against the application of democratic principles when they challenge the dogma of the left, yet when voting rights are challenged, requiring an identification or in-person voting, Democrats cry disenfranchisement and circle the wagons to remind us of the virtue of their protection.

This Supreme Court is pilloried because it stands on the principle that if the Constitution doesn’t support a challenge brought before it, it likely will require legislation to cure its defects. I know this seems like a lot of work for my Democrat friends, but democratic principles are not merely an abstract wish of an elite class delivered by judicial fiat but a unique responsibility expressed by our Founding Fathers.

Dick Sheehan thinks the court is tainted simply by associating it with President Donald Trump [“Supreme Hubris,” Letters, March 7]. No, Mr. Sheehan, the court uses the same Constitution for every president. It is the document that is supreme, not the judges.

Imagine a Democrat-led government with a decidedly liberal court. What would stand in the way of an all-powerful federal government rubber-stamped by a flexible court unconcerned with statutory constitutional language, meddling in commerce, education, health care, and climate hysteria, all in the name of the public good.

Diversity, equity and inclusion, racial reparations, and gender policy unchecked already paralyze American society, rendering it ungovernable without an authoritarian mandate. Hasn’t the left already demonstrated its willingness to become the hammer in limiting speech and imposing crushing conformity? Democrats during this Joe Biden presidency have given us a good look at the America they prefer. It is unnerving how they convince themselves they have an authentic American vision.

It gives me nightmares.

Ed Surgan

Westhampton