“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft
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Anonymous
+1 IIRC Casey made Roe a state issue. |
Anonymous
They will just blame the democrats for being “soft on crime.” |
Anonymous
No, I don't think so. Reversing Roe doesn't bar Congress from enacting a law banning abortion nationwide or mandating abortion access nationwide. All it does is reverse the finding that women have the right to an abortion based on a Constitutional right to privacy, which the Court now thinks you don't have. Any federal legislation would of course be challenged immediately in court. A federal ban would likely eventually be struck down based on the principle that states can guarantee rights in excess of federal rights. A federal law guaranteeing abortion access might stand based on some other part of the Constitution - interstate commerce is usually the clause of choice, but there could be a full faith and credit argument in there. Or it could be tied to federal funding, in which case, many conservative states might opt to forego that funding, which would certainly be quite the experiment in states rights. |
Anonymous
| Two days and still stunned that a century and a half after slavery, women in this country are about to become slaves... |
Anonymous
| What about HIPPA, if there's no right to privacy? |
Anonymous
Disabled babies are future criminals? |
Anonymous
Unwanted babies are future criminals. Freakonomics pretty much proved it. It’s much more likely one of them is going to mug you than cure cancer. |
Anonymous
| Have we discussed a right-wing journalist naming a random SCOTUS clerk as the leaker based on nothing but pure speculation (because she has a gender studies degree)? I think the person who leaked should be fired/disbarred but I'm not sure we should be naming random people as the leaker. |
Anonymous
You have very good points. Are you in elected office ? |
Anonymous
NO WAY the Leaker " should be disbarred" The Leaker is a HERO Washington is full to the brim with spineless early to mid-career syncophants who betray their morals- even their countries values - to " go along to get along in Washington" The leaker made a heroic decision to RISK ALL for what was right: Giving EVERY WOMAN in America the HEADS UP that SCOTUS is about to rule that THE STATE Controls Your Body If they never practice law again, they have done the country such a SOLID that they deserve the Pulitzer AND the Nobel Prize |
Anonymous
This. Disabled babies just don't get much health care, or they can bankrupt the parents, which then can lead to a horrible outcome for the whole family. I mean, if we all had universal health care it wouldn't. And parental leave, etc... We have none of that, so having a severely disabled child can even throw the middle class with health insurance into poverty. |
Anonymous
I thought the leaker was Ginny Thomas? |
Anonymous
I actually disagree. If that was the intent, all it does is blunt the effects of the eventual decision and put more distance between the reveal and the midterms. I agree with the theory that it was a conservative leak trying to keep Kavanaugh in the majority. |
Anonymous
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If republicans really wanted to save all the children, we would have universal health care, a year long maternity or paternity leave, and affordable quality subsidized day care.
We have absolutely none of the in the US. If we did, it would be an easy way to decrease abortions down to mostly just women who are raped / have medical issues. Now we get to breed a whole generation of new criminals instead, if the Catholics and republicans get their way. |
Anonymous
I think this is one more sign the leaker is from the Thomas/Alito camp rather than one of the liberal justices. This is the second clerk of a liberal justice he has named as the leaker in just two days, and he is clearly trying to deflect attention from the conservative justices. |