Originally published at: Inside The Mystery Of Why The Supreme Court Declined To Hear A Pressing Abortion Case - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Last week, the Supreme Court surprised court-watchers by declining to take up an emergency abortion case out of Texas, leaving the state’s near-absolute ban in place. The case, almost identical to one in Idaho the Court heard last term, centers on whether even states with abortion bans must allow emergency room physicians to provide abortions…
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Why would this suprise anyone with this court?
On the other hand, thanks losers for giving us the best campaign talking point ever
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Becoming more like the supreme secret conclave.
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The majority on the Supreme Court does not care if women die due to pregnancy complications. They are too cowardly in light of the blow back from Roe.
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This, and the Weekender analysis of Jackson’s lonely role on the court writing footnotes for history, suggest that at this point Kagan and Sotamayor are phoning it in.
There was talk earlier that Sotamayor at least, with a history of diabetes, should not repeat RBG’s mistake of putting her own ego above everything else, and retire early for a younger successor, while Democrats still held both the presidency and the senate. We even have the precedent of Kennedy’s retirement.
But like so many, apparently for her it’s all about her, even while she seems to no longer have any interest in actually contributing anything.
The history of this era is going to be replete with the stories of people who might have done their bit to at least slow the rot, but failed miserably.
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and increasingly making decisions via the shadow docket without oral arguments or often any writing at all to indicate their thinking
A good reason for increasing the number of justices, and limiting the number any one President can appoint.
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Your question answers itself. This Court is the love child of the Christo Fascist Taliban and Billionaire Libertarianism. General Milley is correct that Trump is the greatest threat facing America, but only because he’s the most imminent threat. The Court is in my view our greatest long term threat if not defanged in Kamala’s first term.
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it’s not going to change the ultimate outcome if they take the case now vs decide the issue later.
I’m calling BS. The conservatives know they’ll decide against abortion rights one way or another, so wait until after the election and don’t get women across the country all riled up to vote for Harris.
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Occam’s Razor calls for always assuming bad faith and political hackery on the part of the current SCOTUS.
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“One possibility is that they want to avoid another abortion case, especially right before the election,”
Couldn’t be that, could it?
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It’s going to be impossible to reform SCOTUS, if the Democrats don’t control the Senate and House. And, it looks to me that the Republicans will control the Senate. Wish I could be more optimisic.
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What’s the rush? It’s only women who are actively dying on their doorsteps.
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Is it possible…they made this ruling WITHOUT informing the liberal justices? I think we are at that point right now…
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If we lose the Senate this election and Kamala wins, there will be another election in 2026 where the landscape might be better for Dems to take back the Senate. So there is at least a smidgen of a silver lining there for judicial appointments and maybe one or two SCOTUS seats in the second half of Kamala’s term.
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What’s the secret to good comedy? Timing. - Attributed in various forms to myriad people.
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Justices should not practice medicine. Likewise doctors should not act like justices.
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New and different…abortion as comedy. Thanks SCOTUS.
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Meanwhile, women continue to die needlessly.
Heartless f$cking bastards.
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Once again the SCOTUS shows itself as politically corrupt.In my opinion, the Biden/Harris administrations should treat the opinions, as just that, opinions. Since they have no enforcement ability, when they issue an obviously political opinion, ignore it.
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