The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday upheld a waiting period for abortions virtually identical to one it knocked down four years ago, abruptly reversing its 2018 finding that Iowans have a fundamental right to abortion under the state constitution.
simple and true.
There have been and will be many cognitive dissonances as the Christofascists burrow their way to the Republic of Gilead and the incoherent logic of the ISC here is just another sample.
I used to wonder that it did not drive them completely mad but perhaps it already has.
Did I mention…
The silver lining in all these conservative courts overruling recent precedent is that it’s providing precedent that future justices are free to overrule their predecessors’ decisions without worrying too much about their precedential value.
Summary: “OOPS, just kidding.”
Did you have to dig deep to find that lining? To this citizen textualism and originalism make no sense and only cause many to lose faith in the courts.
Law is what we say it is, when we say it is.
It’s carnival time!!! Round and round and round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows!! It seems to me that the federal and state Supreme Courts should cease and desist from using the term “Supreme.” Judiciousness and the Rule of Law, We Hardly Knew Ye!
By that logic …it has to be a wide open question as to whether women actually have the right to own property…or even unilaterally decide what’s for dinner.
It’s just builds confidence to see Justices “see it one way…then the other” as the political winds blow the issue about. txlawyer makes the best point. Precedent is dead. When Roe is killed that’s it folks. The Courts are free to go as rogue as they like.
Let’s take away a man’s right to healthcare and see how these jerks like it.
Quelle surprise!
In other Ohio Iowa Supreme Court news … the justices have adopted an official theme song.
“We really like it,” Justice Edward Mansfield said of the selection. “It’s got a good beat and it’s easy to dance to.”
Why is it that every egregious act automatically becomes ‘precedent’ now? If that rotten Eastman had convinced the other Dump lawyers that his hypothesis was okay, suddenly that malfeasance would become the way it would always go henceforth? And they sure didn’t want Kamala Harris to have that right, did they.
I hope a day will come when I can read something like this with without experiencing a surge of uncontrollable rage at every goddamn Stein or Bernie write-in voter who called my social media pleas to consider that control of the courts for a generation was at stake “scaremongering.”
That might get some of their dander up, but some of the worst affluenza-afflicted won’t care one whit. While they might not have a right to healthcare, they have enough money that they can buy it anyway. So why should they care if the people in the homeless shelter downtown can’t get a check up and a bunch die from a flu or COVID outbreak?
The GOP Courts are waging the GOP War on Women.
… next stop … invalidating of constitutional amendments …
By the time these assholes are done … Calvinball will have more structure and consistency than than US Jurisprudence!
True point. Counterpoint: this creates an unstable environment where no one knows what is going to be legal or illegal two to four years down the road. How can any business plan a long term legal strategy, let alone how are individuals expected to navigate such a landscape.