Court watches are NOT surprised with the responses from the Right leaders on the nation’s high court …..
The six seem to be fine with the Mississippi rule that abortions could NOT be done after 15 weeks….
The norm now is about 23 weeks….
The ‘packing’ of the court with a majority of conservative judges has been the goal of anti-abortion groups for decades…
They want the historic Roe vs Wade decision that put a federal law ruling controlling abortion thrown out in favor of letting states set their own standards…
Politics?
If the court watchers are correct?
Sometime in June they will get their wish…
More than 10 states have laws in place to copy the Mississippi laws restrictions …
America will be going back almost 50 years to the times when women will have to leave their home states and travel to get a procedure ….
The High court has other cases coming at them to try to further water down the Roe v Wade historic ‘women rights’ decision….
A few weeks ago several of the courts judges went out of their way to sell their court’s independence in response to supporting the Texas abortion restrictions decision…
The Supreme Court seemed poised on Wednesday to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, in what would be a momentous and polarizing decision to roll back the abortion rights the court has defined over the last half century.
During sometimes tense and heated questioning in almost two hours of oral arguments, the court’s six conservative justices signaled they are comfortable with the Mississippi law, even though upholding it would be flatly at odds with Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion and prohibited states from banning the procedure before fetal viability, currently around 23 weeks.
Moving that line to 15 weeks would discard decades of precedent. Several of the conservative justices appeared ready to go further and overrule Roe entirely, letting states decide whether and when to ban abortions — an outcome that would transform regulation of abortion in 20 or more states that have been seeking to impose more restrictions and that would further inflame the long-running political and cultural divisions over the issue….
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Until the last few years, the prospect of overruling Roe would have seemed far-fetched. But President Donald J. Trump came into office having vowed to name justices who would overrule Roe. His three appointees have reshaped the court, which now has a six-justice conservative supermajority.
The court’s three liberal members said that overruling Roe soon after a change in the court’s membership would damage the court’s legitimacy. Indeed, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, doing so would pose an existential threat to the court.
“Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?” she asked….
Republican Sen Susan Collins….
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) favors passing legislation to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into law, her office told NBC News.
Said a spokeswoman: “Senator Collins supports the right to an abortion and believes that the protections in the Roe and Casey decisions should be passed into law. She has had some conversations with her colleagues about this and is open to further discussions.”
image…Credit…Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times
I recall Kavenaugh repeating over and over that Roe v Wade was established precedent and how he understands the importance of precedent. At a minimum, his answers on those questions were deliberately misleading in his sworn testimony.
We already know about his more blatant “misrepresentations” on his sexual assaults.
And now, Susan Collins, to cover her ass, is saying she favors codifying Roe v Wade in statute. How the fuck is she going to do that? How will she get those extra ten votes. She knew exactly what Kavanaugh would do when he got on the bench. She lied to her pro-choice constituents, and because Maine will continue to allow women to make their own health care decisions she won’t feel their wrath. A real profile in courage this one is.
It really is time for there to be an investigation into that “FBI investigation,” or lack of investigation, that failed to follow-up on any of the leads regarding preppy Brett’s various drunken activities.
The vast majority of Americans want Roe v. Wade upheld.
If conservatives get their wish and overturn it let the cards fall where they may.
Indeed Scott…..
Lot of women ain’t gonna like this….
Democrats
AND
Republicans…..
Like I said Scott, the dog is about to catch the car finally.
This will all go back to the states and. that will deny poor and middle class women access to good health care over their reproductive rights. Women will travel hundreds of miles to get a procedure and then be turned in as criminals (or at least folks will try to do that).
The guy who argued the case for Mississippi yesterday is a real nut case who worked for the Trump administration and ran the immigrant detention centers. At that time he moved heaven and earth to deny a young immigrant woman at one of his centers an abortion even though she had the ability to pay. She went to court and ultimately prevailed, not before a guy named Kavanaugh sided with him to keep this poor woman with child.
People like Susan Collins knew this drunk was going to ultimately come down on the side of the Handmaiden’s Tale, but she told that fucking lie and voted for him.
The Supreme Court will be reversing Brown vs the Board of Education and Gay Marriage soon. Just waiting for a referral from Mississippi — and I am only half joking.
I wonder what our anti choice friends on here will say when miscarriages start being investigated suspicious deaths?
Political leaders in California said on Wednesday that they would work to make the state a sanctuary for women seeking abortions if a Supreme Court ruling allows the procedure to be banned in more conservative parts of the country.
The proposal, which was released with the backing of Gov. Gavin Newsom and the leaders of California’s two legislative chambers, calls for increasing funding for abortion providers and dozens of other measures to make it easier for clients to access abortion services and providers to get paid. It also includes a recommendation to fund the procedure for low-income women who come to California for abortion services….
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