Your country going to open up free immigration for US citizens then? I'm thinking no?Why, they are reaping what they sow.
Fuck that country, go somewhere more civilized.
I live in Texas. It's already run the state over. Abortion is illegal now.
They're going to force 13 year old rape victims to go through pregnancy. The cruelty is the point.
I would say that 2016 was when it went into a nose dive vertically. It was on a decline for years before.
It really does feel like the pendulum is swinging irreversibly toward civil war at this point. On an existential level, Republican ideology is not compatible with a healthy nation.
what has siding with democrats achieved beyond broken promises, eternal consternation, and mitigated losses? tearing down democrats has at least, to some degree, proven successful in raising awareness and acceptance of other, more progressive forms of political philosophy, and that has been by far more productive than siding with a bunch of spineless cowards on anything but the mitigation of evil.
But the vote margin is close enough for there to at least be some hope that the state can be flipped.
Let me rephrase, when did he have the NUMERICAL chance. I honestly don't remember if Obama had votes to clear both the House and the Senate at any time during his Presidency. Because there is a big difference between controlling the House and the Senate and having the votes in both.
Outside of the obvious of voting more Democrats in every state government, many red states have ballot initiative processes that can get legalized abortion on a ballot to pass directly without their Republican controlled legislation doing anything
the bully pulpit exists for a reason. if a president actually wants something to pass, you whip those fucking votes. that's how it's always been done, and i'm shocked at the lackadaisical attitude of "well he couldn't have FORCED it"
"...a Supreme Court case decided in 2014, National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, et. al., makes clear that President Obama does not have the constitutional authority to recess appoint Garland in the face of determined Senate opposition."
Supreme Court rebukes Obama on recess appointments - The Washington Post
The only thing Obama could have done is appoint a judge while Congress was at full recess. But the problem is Mitch never allowed Congress to be at "full" recess as he always left a couple of representatives there — he was smart, and would never allow Obama such a loophole.
In other words, there was nothing Obama could have legally done.
From NewRepublic. There was absolutely a way for Obama to make an appointment. He chose not to because decorum and all that. And yeah, I have been plugged into politics since 2004 and over time my cynicism grew over democrats wanting to play by the rules, while gop abuse them whenever given the chance.Here's how it would work. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution states, "The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate." This has been used for Supreme Court vacancies before—William Brennan began his Court tenure with a recess appointment in 1956. Any appointments made in this fashion expire at the end of the next Senate session. So a Garland appointment on January 3 would last until December 2017, the end of the first session of the 115th Congress.
Why January 3? Because the president's recess appointment powers were significantly constrained by a 2014 Supreme Court ruling. In a 9-0 decision in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning, the Court said the president cannot appoint individuals to fill vacancies if the Senate holds "pro forma" sessions every three days. Though these sessions, common since 2011, merely gavel in and gavel out the Senate chamber, they have the practical effect of keeping the Senate active, therefore blocking the recess appointment power.
But even the Court's most conservative members acknowledged that a president can make recess appointments during "inter-session" recesses—such as the break between the first and second year of a Congress, or the break between outgoing or incoming Congresses. There simply has to be an end point there, as a metaphysical matter. Theodore Roosevelt once used a short inter-session recess to make hundreds of appointments.
No the margin is not close at all at the state level. It's not even really that close in federal electionsBut the vote margin is close enough for there to at least be some hope that the state can be flipped.
There is no hope for people in places like Arkansas, such as my family and I.
No, for a lot of states they get on the ballot by just having enough signaturesWouldn't these initiatives need to be approved by said republicans to even be on yearly ballots?
"Stop making me feel guilty for being too lazy to get off my ass and cast a ballot!"
Specifically for those who can't afford to fly somewhere to get it done. I guarantee every single one of these conservatives that supported this ban would try to obtain an abortion if their teenage daughter got pregnant.Banning abortion never actually bans abortions. It just bans safe abortions. And everybody knows it.
America, you all need to take this to the streets.
Any word on the situation when the pregnancy is outside the uterus so both mom and child are destined to die, if no abortion is performed?
I'm talking about assassination attempts on Republicans.Honestly if they lose the next presidential election, I could see someone taking a shot at Biden or more likely Kamala, especially since a lot conspiracy theorists tbelieve she's only there to take power after Biden dies, also being black and a woman she gets even more hate than he does.
I remember this BS.Guys stop being mean to Thomas. Don't you know that he knows every employees' name?
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Question for people who might know better: I know this does not help people who don't have the means to do this but is it legal for someone in one of the states where this is banned to travel to a state where it is legal to get an abortion?
Flipped how? For the presidential election? How does that make abortion legal? The Legislature is solidly red.
I'm out of here as soon as I can be.
The decision doesn't exist in a bubble. It's further evidence of the system that we use to govern our country being illegitimate and unrepresentative of its people. We do not live in a democracy that accurately reflects the will of its people. If millions of people can be overruled by, as you say, 80,000 in 3 states, and that single action then cascades into hundreds of millions of people losing their rights in a way they did not expressly vote for, then it's not a system that should be maintained.
what has siding with democrats achieved beyond broken promises, eternal consternation, and mitigated losses? tearing down democrats has at least, to some degree, proven successful in raising awareness and acceptance of other, more progressive forms of political philosophy, and that has been by far more productive than siding with a bunch of spineless cowards on anything but the mitigation of evil.
I'm honestly not going to stay in the country if things regress further. Somehow, some way.
Funny how, Thomas isn't mentioning Loving in privacy rights cases that should be overturned.
Just gay sex, gay marriage, and contraception….