The Polarization of America is Also in the Supreme Court

 When half of America thinks that a man who says he's a woman should be allowed to compete against women in sports, you know we are in trouble.

When half of America thinks that "women can do anything that men can!"...you know we are in trouble.

When half of America thinks it's a good idea to drop standards and testing in order to hire more women and people of color...you know we are in trouble.

The nation hasn't been this polarized probably since the Civil War.  We simply don't seem to have a middle anymore as the Democrats move so far left that there really is no more room for compromise.  

Today we are reading about the recent rulings in the Supreme Court and people are realizing that there is no longer a middle there either.  It's either vote on the FAR RIGHT or the FAR LEFT.  But what Democrats fail to realize is that THEY are the ones who have moved FAR LEFT and the Republicans have stayed more in the track they have always been in.

The article below comes from the Washington Post which is certainly reporting with a Leftist bias but it is pointing out that the Supreme Court seems to be as divided as the general populace.

The sharply conservative Supreme Court that President Donald Trump’s three appointees remade is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, according to a detailed analysis conducted for The Washington Post.

The shift brings to an end a streak of successive courts expanding such protections that began with the dawn of the civil rights era. But the historic nature of the current court is also evident in other key areas of the law over the five terms since the third of Trump’s appointees joined the bench.

The analysis shows that in addition to civil rights, the court powered by Trump’s picks — Justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — has pushed to the right of any modern court on religious rights and voting issues.

The court has also entered a new era of extreme partisanship. None over the past seven decades has been as starkly polarized.

“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein, who performed the analysis with her Washington University colleague Andrew D. Martin and Michael J. Nelson of Penn State.

A yawning gulf has opened between the left and right flanks of the court, Epstein said.

“The polarization in American society seeps into the Senate. It seeps into the presidency. It is naturally going to seep into the courts. It would be surprising to see another John Paul Stevens,” Epstein said, referring to the late justice noted for his moderation. “Partisan identity and ideology have become so intertwined.”

The analysis examined 270 decisions handed down by the Supreme Court between 2020 and 2024 — the first five terms of the six-justice conservative majority — and drew on the Supreme Court Database, a compendium of cases the professors maintain.

The professors compared that data to the body of rulings under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. before 2020, as well as rulings handed down under the six other chief justices dating back to the New Deal era. The analysis did not include rulings from the current term or orders in cases on the court’s emergency docket.

Overall, the Supreme Court has consistently leaned to the right for 50 years. That pattern has persisted despite the country being closely divided politically and the White House and Congress regularly changing hands between Democrats and Republicans. Republican presidents have had more opportunities to name justices than Democratic presidents have had.

The current court has expanded upon the pattern.

One of the most notable findings of the data analysis was the court’s shift on civil rights, Epstein and Nelson said. Since the three Trump appointees joined the court, the share of cases won by the side advocating an expansion of civil rights fell to 44 percent.

In all the other time periods going back to the early 1950s, the Supreme Court issued rulings in favor of expanding civil rights in a majority of such cases. The high-water mark for rulings in favor of civil rights was 74 percent during the court of Earl Warren in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Warren court is remembered as one of the most liberal in history, banning school segregation in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education and expanding voting rights and the rights of criminal defendants.

In recent terms, a number of the civil rights cases before the court have involved protections for gay and transgender people, and in most cases, the court has ruled against them. Last year, the justices upheld a Tennessee ban on gender transition treatment for minors and allowed religious parents to remove their children from school lessons using LGBTQ+ books. In 2023, the justices said a website designer’s First Amendment rights allowed her to refuse to create sites for same-sex weddings.

Here;  Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights

For those of us who hold to conservative values these rulings by the Supreme Court are great news.  But a nation divided this bad simply can't continue on this trajectory for too much longer.

We pray Jesus is coming soon because when America falls there will be no other place to go that has the freedoms that we all take for granted.