The chipping away of Roe vs. Wade begins.
Clarence Thomas signaled his desire to overturn previous decisions protecting abortion rights.
Of course he did. The most incompetent jurist of the last 100 years needs to do as much damage as possible before he kicks his last RV tire.
? Them rejecting this means that the lower court decision blocking the ban remains in place (i.e. that the law can’t take effect, there’s a lot of double-negatives here…)
Yes, but the narrative is that the Court will overturn Wade the minute it’s able to do so. No matter what, you can’t get the media to do a really proper analysis of it. They immediately default to that assumption.
So, I guess Roberts is chickening out on overturning Roe v. Wade in June 2020, but wants to wait an extra year to avoid the blue tsunami which would surely follow that ruling?
I am glad I misinterpreted that. Posted before coffee. Yikes, where is my brain?
That’s probably the next narrative of the press.
If trump wins, that will be the perfect time to take up such a case. If a democrat wins and we take the senate, taking up the case would be a perfect example of why the court needs to be reformed.
SC giveth and taketh away…
This is a win, but they balanced it by saying they will take up DACA.
Like yesterday census good news was tempered by the Gerrymandering decision
Even taking the dimmest and most politicized view of Roberts (and back-room GOP power brokers more broadly), I think he cares more about wielding abortion as a motivational cudgel to get the idiot deplorables to the polls every November, and rather less about actually stopping abortions.
don’t you understand? because hilary and 45* are just the same, it would have been like this under president clinton too. Or that’s what I assume all the women who sat out the last election are thinking right now.
Nope…
Its see the RW justices are fair…
Thomas is awful, but I think Kavanaugh is going to walk away with that title.
Thomas continues to try to atone for being Black by causing as much pain to poor and minorities as he possibly can.
I keep hoping he’ll have a coronary, but if there is a God who wants to prove his/her existence to this lifelong agnostic, s/he’ll do it the moment Harris or Warren is in office, McTurtle has lost his bid for election, and the Senate has turned blue. Hopefully, all in alignment by Jan 2021.
It’s their go-to turnout machine, that’s for sure.
Oh, totally agree. Republicans have been using the empty promise ever since Roe v. Wade to get political wins. But they never wanted to actually catch the car, because the ramifications for actual people will be so terrible that the backlash will be severe.
But… At a certain point, they’ve gotta deliver, or their base is going to turn on them.
… she will fulfill my wish of having Thomas meet up with fellow RV enthusiast John Boehner this summer somewhere near Enoch, Utah … head-on at 80-miles-per-hour.
Yes yes yes.
The Revolution will actually arrive sooner if we do not vote Democrat and besides, they are both the same anyway. And they are not as cool as MOI in my black turtleneck, smoking my Gauloises and quoting that star fucker of the 60s Left, the infallible Saint Regis De Bray.