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Post by sloopjohnc on May 3, 2022 16:05:57 GMT
This is some of the biggest news I can remember, the leaking of a SCOTUS argument to overturn Roe vs. Wade and Planned Parenthood vs. Casey, which supported the original decision.
But we all knew it was coming with Gorsuch and two Catholic justices.
One commentator compared it to repeal of the second amendment and that's just laughable. Roe vs. Wade involves the right to privacy, although that is not explicitly declared in the Constitution, but the second amendment is an anachronism.
The second amendment was written when the US had no standing nationalized army or means to recruit and a large part of the early country was rural, had to hunt for game or ward off livestock predators.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on May 3, 2022 16:26:01 GMT
Another American institution under attack.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on May 3, 2022 17:22:56 GMT
Another American institution under attack. The supreme court? Who's attacking it? |
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Post by sloopjohnc on May 3, 2022 17:25:29 GMT
Another American institution under attack. The supreme court? Who's attacking it? Under attack in a roundabout way, leaking an argument before a dissent could be entered. |
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on May 3, 2022 17:38:18 GMT
I see. This isn't the first time an argument has been leaked though, is it? I thought I read that even the initial decision of Roe was leaked.
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Post by Sneelock on May 3, 2022 18:12:22 GMT
I count 6. the ones you'd expect (Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Beer Boy, ACB) plus Sotomayor.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on May 3, 2022 19:17:09 GMT
Despite what some say the leak apparently is not illegal. If they are gonna try to send us back in time like some shit southern state, I'm glad we got the heads up.
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Post by sloopjohnc on May 3, 2022 19:34:19 GMT
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Post by ~ / % ? * on May 3, 2022 19:38:04 GMT
I see. This isn't the first time an argument has been leaked though, is it? I thought I read that even the initial decision of Roe was leaked. Yup, Time magazine, if Time did it nowadays and nobody would still know. |
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Post by ~ / % ? * on May 3, 2022 19:44:09 GMT
As there is no evangelical intellectual tradition (oxymoron), sadly it is conservative Catholics doing the work. When John Paul II shut down the Jesuits "black pope" he began the dismantling of the independent and liberal wing of Catholicism. |
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Post by A.R. Parsons on May 3, 2022 22:06:32 GMT
If they are gonna try to send us back in time like some shit southern state, I'm glad we got the heads up. It's been obvious for some time that this was the direction the U.S. was heading - hardly a shocker. An argument could be made that the majority of the country has always been a shithole Southern state at heart. |
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Post by ~ / % ? * on May 3, 2022 23:32:34 GMT
If they are gonna try to send us back in time like some shit southern state, I'm glad we got the heads up. It's been obvious for some time that this was the direction the U.S. was heading - hardly a shocker. An argument could be made that the majority of the country has always been a shithole Southern state at heart. Yes, that push pull tension has always been there, it seems to have sped up since Obama. We can also blame Rockefeller for eradicating hookworm in the south, he should have left the Bubbas festering. Blame the inbred Scottish Presbyterians, fucked up Ireland then moved into the US south. |
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Post by A.R. Parsons on May 4, 2022 0:34:26 GMT
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Post by toomanyhatz on May 4, 2022 2:47:06 GMT
NOT a majority. Not by any means. There hasn't been a single poll anywhere that showed anything close to half the nation being anti-choice.
This is a radical takeover by a small minority, as it's been since well before Roe v. Wade.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on May 4, 2022 3:02:57 GMT
I must apologize Mr. Parsons as I have never followed your work past I Robot. However, Mr. Rockefeller did his hookworm eradication for those former slaves and but needed to include the Bubbas to keep the peace. That it still remains means less of his failure than of the conditions still existing for their prosperity that might be similar to the neglect and deliberateness that also was behind Jim Crow, "the Lost Cause", and "separate, but unequal", so fuck the Bubbas as they continue to try to disenfranchise, denigrate, and deny those needing "the warmth of other suns". (Please note, Mr. Parsons as you are British you might not know that Bubba is usually a white male term of endearment, unless used by an outsider, like me.) |
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