A new solidarity aborning. (the Supreme Court and civil rights) (editorial)

A New Solidarity Aborning

While it has long been clear whose side the Supreme Court is on, recent rulings have left no illusions. The entire federal judicial system, now blanketed with extremely one-sided judges appointed by Ronald Reagan, seems to have sworn an oath to arrest the natural and constitutional rights of labor, African Americans, and women, and is hell-bent to fix into place throughout the land an anti-union, racist and sexist environment.

Substituting malicious right-wing bias for the plain words of the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court justices delivered several foul, below-the-belt blows against democracy, while George Bush, wrapping himself …