The Weekly Sanfedisti

      In recent weeks there has been a confluence of multiple events that previously would have been been the events that defined decades. A shooting at an elementary school of which its only comparable antecedent Sandy Hook still sticks in the minds of millions among dozens of other notable mass shootings. An ongoing publicized House committee investigating the involvement of a former President in what was at best an unruly mob trespassing on the hallowed ground of the Capitol building, the epicenter of our Republic, and at worst a calculated attempt to overthrow that very Republic. And most of all the monumental decision by the Supreme Court to reverse the almost 50-year decision of Roe v. Wade and upend the status quo on abortion.      All of these events in years past would have dramatically shepherded the moderate center of our country into the arms of the Democrats. But to the contrary, generic congressional polling has shown a consistent lead fo...

       On the 24th of June, the Supreme Court decided in a 6-3 decision to reverse the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade which liberalized abortion access nationwide. This was widely expected as the decision of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case had been leaked around a month prior in an unprecedented breach of security. As to who leaked it would be anybody's guess but the smart money is on Justice Sotomayor who appears more activist than a judge or a level 200 Machiavellian ploy by Chief Justice Roberts in an attempt to use public anger over the decision in a vain attempt to moderate the more ideological sections of the majority opinion. Whatever the case may be, the culmination of decades of conservative legal activism and judicial revanchism against the Warren and Burger courts has led to this decision, a first in the modern Western world that represents a significant reversal in the legal fortunes of what was liberalized in the 1960s and 70s. It...