The other day, Chris Murphy was on MSNBC with illiberal popinjay Mehdi Hasan, triumphantly discussing the left’s coordinated smear campaign to destroy the legitimacy of the judicial branch of the United States government.
Then, this insane claim came out of his mouth:
Listen, the reason Ted Cruz and Republicans are, you know, so out of their minds about protecting this Supreme Court is because the Supreme Court is the new right-wing legislature for this country. Republicans’ agenda is so unpopular in Congress — banning abortion, getting rid of background checks, requirement eviscerating voting rights laws — that they can’t pass it through the majoritarian institutions, so instead Republicans and the right wing have outsourced legislating to the Supreme Court. And so when there is a potential that they are going to lose their grip on the Court, they get their backs against the wall.
What in the hell is this person talking about? Are MSNBC viewers under the impression the Supreme Court banned abortion? It was Roe v. Wade that concocted a “right” unmentioned anywhere in the Constitution and then, by fiat, decreed it the law of the land without a debate or vote. Dobbs handed the issue back to voters. Or, more precisely, it did what Murphy contends the high court should be doing. Roe created law by decree. Obergefell created a law by decree. The left has spent decades relying on the court to bypass the electorate.
That Murphy is unable to come up with a
