Thanks!
Remove abortion from SCOTUS’s jurisdiction and you end up with 12 different circuits legislating abortion willy nilly.
Remove abortion from the lower federal courts’ jurisdiction and you end up with 50+ legislatures regulating abortion willy nilly.
Pass a nationwide abortion protection bill with a poison pill expanding the Supreme Court by one seat per year unless and until legislation is enacted to stop it, and SCOTUS will suddenly get woke on abortion.
ETA: Or Biden just nominates four new Supreme Court justices, who can be confirmed by 51 votes (including Harris) without filibuster. Confirmation alone increases the size of the Court. Then do the same for the 5th, 6th, 8th, and 11th Circuits.
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In regards to the emergency request filed by the DOJ to temporarily block enforcement of the law has agreed to a hearing…on October 1! Guess his definition of “emergency” isn’t quite the same as the DOJ (or most people, for that matter.)
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Judge Robert Pitman, Obama appointee.
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I understand your position, but I, for one, grow weary of the Merkin necessity for a cis het white male (with only two exceptions, one gay, one mixed race) to be president.
You know what I’d like? For Thomas and Kavanaugh and the lying Handmaid to be impeached and convicted and removed from the Court and replaced by flaming liberals.
Then add a few more. New Hampshire has 400 people in their lege, CA has 120. Maybe we need more legislators in Congress so the people are better represented too.
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And once again, a “strategy” pioneered by GOP asshole “lawyers” (remember Dan Patrick/Lt Gov TX versus PA?) comes back to bite them on their wide candy asses.
You know what I’d like? For monkeys to fly out of my butt.
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Seriously…can someone find a nice big photo of those trees and photoshop some handmaid’s bonnets onto them, please?
I’d settle for just watching them get put there in the first place 
Don’t hold us in suspense! What’s the news?
ETA: oooh, found this…
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A Democrat failed to dot an “i” or correctly conjugate a verb – at least according to an FBI agent’s memory of events – and so Durham briefly resurfaced from Barr’s ass cheeks to announce his intent to indict, hours before the five-year statute of limitations blew up in his own face.
Lame, immaterial, and going nowhere.
The flop sweat of GOP desperation continues to stink up the joint.
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I was wondering why a snorkel was sticking up out of his pants…
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Ruth
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The only reason that I included the option of removing jurisdiction was that was one of the threats the right used on marriage equality.
I like your option, except that it will never get past the Senate filibuster – unless court expansion could “have a budgetary impact”, I guess.
Judicial nominations are not subject to the filibuster, and you don’t need to expand the court first. Just nominate four new justices, then their confirmation by the Senate puts them on the Court. They wouldn’t be sitting in permanent seats like the other 9, but they could still get successors appointed the same way when they die or retire.
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A few public committee hearings on these choices might get Roberts’ attention.
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Wouldn’t the bulk of unprocessed ballots be those that voted by mail or used drop boxes on or shortly before election day, neither method trusted by the GQP voters? Didn’t most of them vote in person?
I texted thousands of voters in the days leading up to and on election day, and a significant number that responded had just dropped off or mailed their ballots, or were about to do so. They would be the ones counted last, so I don’t think we can assume that the margin will necessarily sink to the polling average (which had older, lower margins mixed in, and late breakers were trending “No”).
Again this assumes that the voters for recalling Newsom avoided mail and dropbox, regardless of when they voted.
But who knows? We’ll find out soon enough. Of course I’d like “No” to stay above 60%, though.
BTW, here’s the CA SOS link for unprocessed ballots:
https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/unprocessed-ballots-status
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Improvised from a TP roll:
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hahaha…eeeeeew…
