The ruling COULD actually spell trouble for them if the court opens the door to individuals seeing all sorts of people they are personally involved with….
Some of us pointed out right away that the 5 Right wingers on the court in their haste seem to have made a GIANT fuckup call that is being critiqued and criticised from both sides of the political spectrum and the legal community…
Sen. Bill Cassidy on Sunday said he expects the U.S. Supreme Court may well “swat away” the Texas abortion law once it comes to them in an appropriate case.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, allowed Texas‘ new abortion law to take effect last week. But in doing so, the court’s majority did not specifically pass judgment on the merits of the law — which sets up unique and possibly unconstitutional enforcement mechanisms dependent on private citizens using the courts.
“I think the Supreme Court will swat it away once it comes to them in an appropriate manner,” Cassidy (R-La.) said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“If it’s as terrible as people say it is, it‘ll be destroyed by the Supreme Court,” Cassidy said. He added that the Supreme Court had rejected the challenge last week because those who brought the lawsuit didn’t have “standing” to do so, meaning they didn’t have a sufficient stake in the case to file a challenge to the law.
Supporters of legal abortion, among other things, argued that the court’s acceptance of the new law represented a de facto end to rights guaranteed in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, as well as an attack on personal privacy and a way of introducing an element of vigilante justice to the legal system. “It just seems, I know this sounds ridiculous, almost un-American,” President Joe Biden said Friday.
Cassidy, who noted his personal opposition to abortion, said Democrats overreacted to last week’s ruling. The Louisiana senator also said all the arguments over the Texas law were a distraction from more pressing issues, including the devastating impact of Hurricane Ida on his home state.
“People are using it to gin up their base to distract from disastrous policies in Afghanistan, maybe for fundraising appeals,“ he said. “I wish we would focus on issues … as opposed to theater. It was about if they had standing, nothing to do with constitutionality. I think we should move on to other issues.”
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said critics of the new law were not overreacting….