Supreme Court Freezes Lower Court Rulings While Mifepristone Case Plays Out

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If they could repeal the 19th Amendment all by their lonesome, you bet these robed wingnuts on the Supreme Court would in a heartbeat.

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Sometimes I have a dream that Alito and Thomas are being pursued in a French Connection car chase (greatest chase scene of all movie time) and it doesn’t end well for them. Then I wake up, disappointed.

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The Right really want abortion abolished so there’s more persons available for target practice since they are loosening up gun laws.

See I’m saying the quiet part out loud.

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We know Harlan Crow’s ruling on this issue. We know about Thomas. How much is he giving to Alito?

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Don’t know about anyone else, but several of my functions including editing a comment are doing very weird things so forgive any odd repetition

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Waaaaa cry more Alito you baby.

Looks like Big Pharma won out over Big Jesus!

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Means they have two conflicting rulings from two different circuits, type of thing which more often does result in the Supremes hearing the full cases and making a decision.

Upending the entire drug approval process, along with changing “standing” rules, they may want to stamp this firmly out.

That even Justice Handmaid was onboard is a good thing today.

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Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas would not have granted the stay.

“Ooh, there’s a fuckin’ surprise.”

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Alito’s dissent is ludicrous. He thinks partially banning the drug — which was approved by the FDA for 20 years — isn’t irreparable harm.

Any minimally competent judge knows the plaintiffs had no standing, the case was not timely, and the stay resulted from opinion pieces not in the record. It was void ab initio. It’s also contrary to Alito’a decision in “Dobbs,” where he asserted elected officials decide on the issue. Here is one judge stopping the primary medical abortion medicine for the entire country.

The reality is Alito is a theocrat seeking to ban abortion in any way possible. The law and precedent mean nothing.

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Awww, poor Alito. The masses aren’t being forced to kiss the ring and kneel to his likeness. Fuck him.

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Thurgood Marshall is the man Thomas “replaces”

Thomas stood on the backs of people like Marshall in order to hand over the store to the Right.

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Take that back.

Assholes around the globe are unfairly maligned by that comparison with a piece of shit that is so gross that if I stepped in it I’d just toss my shoes.

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Well, I was right about one thing. I thought they would decide right around the dinner hour and right before they headed out for the night.

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Alito has no problem with the shadow docket when he can hide behind it.

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Leah Litman asks a good question. Why did this take so long. It wasn’t like Alito wrote an expansive dissent.

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Score. This is the best possible outcome. Punts for a couple of years while the appeals play out. SC can’t afford to do anything outrageous with all the ethics dust swirling around not just SC, but Kaszmaryk. Would have been nice if they had kicked the whole mess based on standing, but methinks they have to have the whole merits discussion on that.

Then, if we’re lucky, they’ll kick the whole mess based on standing.

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Darn right.

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Ok he’s a shit head then. :upside_down_face:

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At this point, Alito is simply a caricature of the old man who screams “get off my lawn.” His dissent is just a rant that borders on the incoherent.

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The Friday news dump ended up keeping the news from the religious fanatics.

So sad.

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