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Politico: Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
- Thread starter Smokeymicpot
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You can imagine a reality where (hypothetically) a Justice Gorsuch is a Roberts-like figure presiding over slow narrowings of Obergefell (à la Roe and Casey) an even more conservative justice votes to blow it up entirely. The goalposts are going to move.
"Empowering red states to regulate and ban abortion" is not the endgame. It's the opening act.
The hell are you talking about? I'm referring to your attitude that we should do nothing cause republicans and just change it.
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Lmao sounds about right. Its Bernie's supporters fault for doing something they have no control over.
I mean she could have retired and appoint somebody new. Maybe it was a bad idea to keep an 80 year old woman in office if that's the only thing that's supposedly protecting people's rights.
Whew, remember when the powers that be tried to sell her as a new Oprah, then a powerful feminist who stood up to harassment in a major hollywood film? good times
Calling her the precipitating event for this is too far, but I agree with the sentiment. It was incredibly shortsighted on her part not to retire. Even she herself said she said the symbol of American less as an eagle but as a seesaw, going back and forth. So she knew that eventually the GOP would have control again and with her age and already having one battle with cancer…I'll never be able to understand why she didn't step down at the moment when Obama still had the Senate. She's a legend and always will be, but the hubris of that will always haunt her legacy
I just want to see a statement from her after Roe is gone. I wonder if she even acknowledges abortion as an actual concept ever again.
She had multiple battles with cancer. She was very old. You don't need a crystal ball to see an outcome like this. That's why she's was being pressured to retire 10 years ago
I honestly don't think we'll need to wait that long for other rights. Especially since conservatives and fascists no longer need go play the long game or hide their motives. We are seeing the acceleration of the decline, greater than prior decades.
truly scary to think how far they will go and that their vision for an ideal america is rooted in such evil and bigotry. anyone who's not a rich white male will be at risk. this is really big and i just can only hope people take it seriously, but it seems these days no one takes anything seriously until it's too late.
I mean, look who they're quoting. Anyone who worked for Fox News as long as they did is trash.
You know damn well she should have retired when she had the chance.
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The shit I hate about this is that the most impactful thing he will have ever done in his life and career would be to knowingly push the end to the filibuster for voting rights and codifying Abortion at the expense of his job. If he's worried about money he can be on some stupid news show. Unfortunately, he is not and can just get tossed in the GOP for all I care.
Not a bit. Breyer almost did the same thing but thankfully changed his mind. It's not a comfortable thing to acknowledge, but i really *really* do not want to see a liberal justice make that mistake again.
Same kind of people that still believe that it was Russian bot interference that decided the election instead of the US just being very very racist
Exactly. 6-3 is much better for them to dismantle rights than 5-4. Roberts is no longer able to lean on folks.
Nah let's keep fighting each other. We're a lot easier to beat on than the Rs
The first round already occurred. The justices are still in conference. It's possible that the reported 5-4 breakdown changes. However, because we can assume that Roberts is in the minority (as in, he's voting against the opinion), that means the senior Associate Justice in the majority -- the one who decides the opinion in this case -- is Clarence Thomas.
That means Thomas assigned the opinion to Alito.
I'm sure the opinion has (or will) change from the February draft we've seen, but I don't know how it's anything but 5-4 in the end.
It does though. Shit i'm suprised Breyer wised up to the reality of things and retired.
The infighting and shit stirring here is the exact reason why things have gotten this dire. Rather than uniting against the very obvious enemy, we'd rather point fingers and whine about the failures on our own side.
Shut the fuck up and start fighting the right people. If you haven't noticed, they're fucking winning.
Shut the fuck up and start fighting the right people. If you haven't noticed, they're fucking winning.
It's a reasonable consideration. I hope it doesn't turn out to be true, but people will consider their pocketbooks first before anything else.
When I said 2016 had repercussions, this wasn't it. Stop this stupid crap.
The grand irony for me continues to be that we on the left waste so much fucking time arguing that we can't do what we see the right do literally every fucking election.
This is why I'm so protective of Black voters. Not JUST because I'm Black myself, but because Black voters are literally THE ONLY Leftist voting block that operates this way. We take our asses out and vote for the D candidate no matter WHO that fucker is.
Correct, they will.
Economy first. Everything else a distant second.
I blame all the dipshits in Florida that voted for Ralph Nader. In general. Until I die.
