CNN expert Van Jones pointed criticism for the Supreme Court on Thursday over what he referred to as the high court’s ever-more out-of-touch choices.
Jones said the court’s choices which avoid affirmative action, permit sexual preference discrimination and shot down President Biden’s loan forgiveness strategy produce a crisis of authenticity which might weaken the tenets of the whole nation.
“This is dangerous stuff, because when you have a legitimacy crisis for the court, you have a legitimacy crisis for the country,” he argued. “You can imagine a generation of younger Americans looking at the Supreme Court that is so out of touch with their reality.”
“If I’m a young Black kid, you just made affirmative action no longer helpful to me, it’s harder for me to get an education. Now, you say if I get one it’s harder to pay off my student loans. My cousin or my best friend or myself who might be gay or lesbian, any store they walk in they might get discriminated against because the Supreme Court says it’s ok,” Jones continued. “This court’s not my friend. This court is my opponent. This court is my enemy.”
The court bied far 3 landmark choices on Thursday and Friday, settling the most substantial cases of the court’s calendar. The judgments, all of which fell along ideological lines, cast doubt on the authenticity of the organization itself amongst court critics.
“You want to have a system that is responsive, that is flexible and a Supreme Court that is fair so that new generations can feel that America is their country, that it is on their side, it cares about them, it can hear their cry. It’s the opposite that’s happening,” Jones said.
“The younger generation’s values are being rubbed in the dog poo by the Supreme Court over and over again,” he included.
Jones likewise kept in mind authenticity issues over the appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch in 2017, after the seat previously held by Justice Antonin Scalia was left uninhabited for months regardless of efforts by previous President Obama to fill it.
The court has actually reversed numerous precedents in recent years, leading dissenting court justices to warn about cases with broader implications on the rights of Americans and the sanctity of law.
“There’s a Supreme Court that is willing to strike down precedent and standing and all the things that make the Supreme Court supreme have been put in the garbage can today and it’s going to have ramifications for a long time,” Jones said.
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