With you on that. We did what we could. There is more to do but the path hasn’t yet been identified.
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I know you’re sympathetic, most women would be, but the whole subject is a source of pain to me because of an event pre-Roe V. It changed me forever.
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Both my daughter and me at about the same age. Mine was right after Roe went through.
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Alito (and his wife) are in bed with right wing donors who want to destroy repro rights, have accepted donations in the guise of fees for speaking engagements.
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This brings back the days when a solo senator could put a hold on a nomination (I think during Obama’s terms), and TPM would chase down who was the asshole by calling the senators’ offices directly or getting constitutents to do it, until there was only one senator not issueing a denial. Of course, that won’t work with the filthy five.
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There is a video on CNN of a reporter explaining that about 80 employees of Supreme Court made copies of the ruling and gave the info to their spouses. More info on web site.
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No, but it would be funny.
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Not very much of promoting the general welfare nowadays.
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Correct, Justice Jackson didn’t take her seat until a couple months after the opinion leaked. You’d have to drag Justice Breyer out of retirement to get his affidavit.
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Meanwhile in Florida
“Don’t Say Black”
DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, has rejected a new advanced placement course in African American studies
…or gay, or Disney, or global warming, or Trump, or COVID, or…
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Yeah, I saw a similar report. It’s a fool’s errand, but that doesn’t explain making everyone but the SC justices sign a sworn affidavit, particularly when they are the original source for the Dobbs draft.
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Ah, the violists strike back!
Though a violinist (not active for years, thanks to arthritis), I happen to love the viola’s sound. I also happen to have known violists who did not become violists because they were lackluster as violinists (not many, but a few).
It’s kind of a mystery to me why good intonation seems to be harder for violists – cellists, too – than for violinists, when the latter have less margin for error. Must have something to do with the human ear’s (and brain’s) way of processing lower pitches?
Another thought, going back to my early active musical days. In college I had a piano accompanist who had perfect pitch. I once asked her how she managed as a pianist (since the well-tempered clavier can’t make the subtle pitch adjustments that distinguish, say, D+ from C-): didn’t her ear constantly grate? She just shrugged.
I’ve recently been obsessed with listening to this performance of Ravel’s F major string quartet. One of the (many many!) wonderful things about this piece is the even distribution of roles to the four instruments. (Well, the viola more than usual. I love the cellist and second violinist here! I hope the right link copies here. My first attempts insisted on a cooking gadget I considered, and rejected, at Amazon.)
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“Did your clerk leak the decision?”
“No.”
(later…)
“That is not my clerk.”
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Brills
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I think Inversion is having a conversation with him/herself.
I’ll be honest – I started out just looking for a cheesy excuse to toss in one of my favorite (okay, it’s a long list) Peter Sellers moments.
Then I realized it could actually work out.
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I wish I’d come up with that. If I were a writer for Stephen Colbert or John Oliver I would totally steal that.
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I think Clarence might have given Gianni the info verbally, but then who leaked the actual draft? Could it have been Ginni who leaked it to the press? That I don’t see. I could see her blabbing to all her friends while they pinky-promised not to tell.
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Very good.
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ALITO. It was obviously Sam Alito enforcing discipline among his five votes, at least one of whom was wavering into Roberts territory of gutting Roe without expressly overruling Roe. Ginni is too fucking stupid to be relied upon for anything that doesn’t involve drooling onstage.
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