There’s a sleeper case on the Supreme Court’s docket that could blow a gaping hole in the social safety net and give states leeway to neglect or end care for tens of millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
FiRst, biTcHes!11
Past elections had consequences… we are now reaping them. Court Reform must happen soon or we are totally screwed.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone.
For the last 45 years or so, the principal debate in the GOP has been whether to roll back every social reform to pre-New Deal days, or to go for broke and make the end point of their wrecking operation the slaveholding 1850s.
I remember not too many years ago Newt Gingrich was mooting what a good idea it would be to bring back child labor.
It’s the Only issue.
Good thing we didn’t elect that horrible Clinton woman in 2016…
This court has the potential and the desire to rebrand the constitution and important laws not as offering protection of the rights of individual, but as cramped limited tools that are to be used parsimoniously to avoid governmental obligations to the people.
The justices’ complete lack of experience in state courts, where the rubber really meets the road in terms of seeing the impact of court decisions on actual people, is part of the problem.
I agree. Spot on. And I’d submit that issues that are equally important are (i) campaign finance reforms (companies are NOT people and we need to think about unfettered donations), and (ii) voting rights. These two areas are powerful deterrents to creating the situation we now find ourselves in.
Then, I’d push for real educational reforms from early age up as an educated (doesn’t necessarily mean college degree) individuals have a tendency to think and reason for themselves.
Nice work, Kate! Forewarned is forearmed.
The mistreatment of the poor and needy will continue until they learn they were placed on this earth to kiss Republican’s asses.
Then they will work and slave until they die for the man.
Yet another reminder of the stunning heartlessness of “Christian” RepubliQans.
And millions of people vote FOR the rotten.
Just imagine a world where everyone has to wear pants suits, then you’ll get a feel for it.
Before you’d know it, we’d all be oohing and awing at Hillary swimming the Hudson, again, this year.
So now we need a law allowing citizens to petition for their legal entitlements and the court should be bypassed entirely. The Appeal should be made directly to the federal agency and the penalty for nonadherence to one requirement should be cutting off all federal spending to the whole state for everything.
Slightly OT but still SCOTUS, fetal personhood is next.
I love to hear my elderly father-in-law constantly say that “this is not the America I know.”
Well, with Roe falling, the 1983 statute under fire and the extremist SCOTUS, this is not the America I know either.
I sure we can depend on thi Supreme Court to make the wrong decision after all they have a record to maintain.
These sociopaths wouldn’t care if they had.
Okay, I’m alarmed. This majority is radical. It will break things, stymy government, nullify human rights, serve churches, oligarchs and corporations, and punish, punish, punish.
Just so the right people are punished, punished, punished!
ha ha–I had to look close to make sure you didn’t say ‘bRiTcHes’! 
Let them do it. Contrary to popular opinion…there’s NOTHING SCOTUS can do that cannot be undone. If ditching that vile Court is your cup of tea encourage behavior like this. Let em do it…bring it on.