Here's a little something to keep you awake nights [View all]

We all know the Roberts Not-So-Supreme Court has taken a blowtorch to rights that we had come to expect were sacrosanct -- or at least were settled law.

So far, Roberts has:
-- Overturned Rowe v. Wade.
--- In two rulings a few years apart gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
-- Upheld the fallacy that a corporation is a person.

I am very worried that they are not finished. I'm a Mississippi native, married to an Alabama girl. We both left our home states in the early 1960's when we turned 18 -- later met in college. We have not looked back; we go home only for funerals and the last one was 2010.

We maintain some contact with our in-laws and cousins in MS and AL. Two of them are Democrats -- they keep their heads down. The rest are white supremacist MAGAts of the highest order. They are exactly like the people we left behind 75 years ago. Any conversation with them qujickly devolves into their rants about "queers," "n####rs," "boys who want to be girls," etc., etc.

I'm probably too pessimistic, but, I will not be surprised if lawsuits soon make their way to the Not-So-Supreme Court challenging several statutes and Court rulings -- listed below are the ones I am most worried about. The comments come directly from the mouths of some of our cousins.

-- Civil Rights Act of 1965. After all, if I don't want n####rs eating in my restaurant or sleeping in my motel, why can't I keep them out?

-- Obergefell v. Hodges. There are two genders -- male and female -- and God made it that way. If queers want to get married, let them marry their pet sheep.

-- Loving v. Virginia. Marriage between people of different races is an abomination. Let's go back to the days when interracial marriage was prohibited by law -- at least in the South.

-- Griswold V. Connecticut. Birth control is the same as abortion. Preventing conception is the same as murdering a baby.