{"id":380647,"date":"2018-10-12T12:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T11:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/for-popular-sovereignty-beyond-absurdity\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T12:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T11:06:30","slug":"for-popular-sovereignty-beyond-absurdity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/for-popular-sovereignty-beyond-absurdity\/","title":{"rendered":"For Popular Sovereignty, Beyond Absurdity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>It is disgusting almost beyond words that the onetime sexual predator and obvious dissembler Brett Kavanaugh will render judgement on matters of solemn legal, political, and societal relevance in Superpower\u2019s most preeminent judicial body.<\/p>\n<p>Troubling as the noxious Kavanaugh\u2019s personal history and untruthfulness are, however, it was even more depressing to see the highly personalized soap opera over his past behavior trump momentous questions of law and policy (including sexist and patriarchal law and policy) \u2013 abortion rights, presidential immunity from prosecution, torture, and more in his nomination fight.<\/p>\n<p>Equally distressing was our continuing abject failure to address the authoritarian absurdity of core political and judicial institutions crafted by 18<sup>th<\/sup>century slaveowners and merchant capitalists for whom popular self-governance was the ultimate nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Why in the name of anything remotely akin to democracy should Kavanaugh and his eight high court colleagues holds these powerful positions <em>for life?\u00a0<\/em>That Constitutionally ordained silliness is owed to the slave-owning Founders\u2019 stern determination to \u201ccheck and balance\u201d majority rule.<\/p>\n<p>How does a right-wing Republican majority in the U.S. Senate get to pass a militantly anti-democratic and sexist, partisan hack through to the highest court in the land when majority U.S. public opinion stands well to the left of the widely hated GOP and Kavanaugh on numerous key policy issues, including union rights,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/10\/12\/for-popular-sovereignty-beyond-absurdity\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is disgusting almost beyond words that the onetime sexual predator and obvious dissembler Brett Kavanaugh will render judgement on matters of solemn legal, political, and societal relevance in Superpower\u2019s most preeminent judicial body. Troubling as the noxious Kavanaugh\u2019s personal history and untruthfulness are, however, it was even more depressing to see the highly personalized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}