Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) was dismissive of Democratic panic over the recent Supreme Court decision to virtually outlaw abortion in Texas, saying that the law may not stand and that Democrats are using it to distract from politically damaging news.
DFL Sen Cassidy you are a physician, and as a physician you know how long it takes to grow a baby. What you’re poo pooing is time sensitive you ass.
Oh and as master planner maybe you should share how you would have gotten all the American service members, embassy staff, US contractors, their employees, and all Afghans that wanted to leave out?
“People are using it to gin up their base to distract from disastrous policies in Afghanistan, maybe for fundraising appeals,“
Sez Cassidy (R, LA). Yeah, because only Republicans get to do that. And, apropos of nothing, what’s Cassidy doing for his electricity-deprived, storm-ravaged constituents in the wake of Hurricane Ida?
Republican Senator after decades of GOP lying, stunts, ruses, distractions, complaining about “theater”? And did I mention Lindsey Graham, Rand Paul? Theater?
“People are using it to gin up their base to distract from disastrous policies in Afghanistan, maybe for fundraising appeals,“ he said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “I wish we would focus on issues as opposed to theater. It was about if they had standing, nothing to do with constitutionality. I think we should move on to other issues.”
Oh. And what issues do you have in mind? Minimum wage, Infrastructure, Global Climate Change? I’ll wait. But. Let me guess. Tax cuts!
This indicates to me that the Texas/SCOTUS issue is leaving a mark. A wound to the GOP that may well worsen with time. These guys have looked at the internals.
The Dem coalition is finally waking up (too late for a lot of things) to taking the court seriously. We’ve been misled by the Neal Katyal’s of the world who kept claiming these conservative judges were serious minded jurists instead of the hacks that they are. The big shift has come among Bernie 2016 supporters. They were dismissive of arguments that the 2016 election was the key one for the SCOTUS, but now the left is all in on court reform. A lot of their proposals may seem impractical, but the energy is what’s important. There’s now energy behind the idea of winning local, state and fed elections to prioritize court reform. Once we win, we can do what we want and we should.
The Texas abortion ban is not the “law of the land,” which suggests that it applies nationwide. It’s only for Texas. This is bad enough without raising the fearmongering level.
Is it possible that this non-decision is a trial balloon sent up by the Court’s conservative majority to gauge the national reaction and how a decision on the merits with respect to this law or the one from Mississippi will affect 2022 Congressional races and 2024? That’s really the only reason I can think of for why the Court acted in this substantively inexplicable way when a Constitutional right is denied by state law. They should not abandon fundamental principles of jurisprudence just because Texas Republicans came up with a clever evasion.