I’m going to quote myself from my comment to James Fallows’ blog “Breaking the News” because I think there may be more afoot than just loosing our privacy rights:
“What is chilling, on reflection, is the realization that the moralizing majority do not seem to think that this decision, and the other due process privacy rights they surely i…
I’m going to quote myself from my comment to James Fallows’ blog “Breaking the News” because I think there may be more afoot than just loosing our privacy rights:
“What is chilling, on reflection, is the realization that the moralizing majority do not seem to think that this decision, and the other due process privacy rights they surely intend to target, will be overturned. Why go out of your way to strike down “settled law“ when you must know it is an unpopular thing to do? Why not be clever about it, like Justice Roberts wants to do, and slowly whittle away until there is merely a thin nubby stick of a right remaining? If it is unpopular then certainly it is temporary in a democracy and will ultimately be overturned. And then…it hits. The moralizing majority do not think their unpopular decision will be overturned because… they don’t expect a democracy to be around to stop them.“
I’m going to quote myself from my comment to James Fallows’ blog “Breaking the News” because I think there may be more afoot than just loosing our privacy rights:
“What is chilling, on reflection, is the realization that the moralizing majority do not seem to think that this decision, and the other due process privacy rights they surely intend to target, will be overturned. Why go out of your way to strike down “settled law“ when you must know it is an unpopular thing to do? Why not be clever about it, like Justice Roberts wants to do, and slowly whittle away until there is merely a thin nubby stick of a right remaining? If it is unpopular then certainly it is temporary in a democracy and will ultimately be overturned. And then…it hits. The moralizing majority do not think their unpopular decision will be overturned because… they don’t expect a democracy to be around to stop them.“
Every word you have said here is important. You have described exactly what is happening.