SCOTUS set to overturn Roe and Casey

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... so yeah, I told you so.
you have never proposed a viable, alternative solution. So you don't get to say "I told you so." The country as a whole is too conservative and religious. Blaming the democrats for not being powerful or left enough isn't helpful. If you can't see that, you are dense as a black hole. If the democrats were all left as AOC, they'd never win any elections. Nothing people like us can do about it.
 

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I am not a lawyer.

The opinion apparently overturns Roe v. Wade by junking the implied constitutional right to privacy that it created. However, a bunch of other US legal precedents rely on the right to privacy. Notably:

  • Lawrence v. Texas (2003) determined that it's unconstitutional to punish people for committing "Sodomy" (any sex act other than missionary-position penis-in-vagina between a married man and woman)
  • Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) protects the ability of married couples to buy contraceptives without government interference
  • Loving v. Virginia (1968): right to privacy was used to overturn laws banning interracial marriage
  • Stanley v. Georgia (1969): right to privacy protects personal possession of pornography
  • Obergefell v. Hodges (2015): right to privacy and equal protection clause were used to argue for legality of same sex marriage
  • Meyer v. Nebraska (1923): ruling allows families to decide for themselves if they want their children to learn a language other than English (overturning the right to privacy could open the door for racist states to outlaw parents teaching their children their natal language)
  • Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942): this ruling found it unconstitutional to forcibly sterilize people (it violated the Equal Protection clause)
I am going to note that the US congressional mid-term elections take place in about six months' time.

Wider point: if Alito's leaked ruling represents current USSC opinion, then it appears that the USSC is intent on turning back the clock all the way to the 19th century.
 

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Joe Biden Presidency, Democrats controlling both houses of Congress, a collapsing economy, failed foreign policy to the brink of nuclear war, and the Orwellian formation of an actual Ministry of Truth. And it's bubblesort who needs to apologize for pointing out that the Emperor is buck naked?

There's a point, bubblesort, where you just have to save your own mind and move on from abusers and their apologists.

This place will never change, and if you stay, you may end up thinking this shit is normal:

Look at the pond scum that climbed out from under a rock. The balls of these people. THEY are the ones that broadcast loud and clear in 2016 that they did not care about the right to abortion as we screamed from the rooftops that it was on the ballot.. Now, they come here to prattle some more of their nonsense and fuckery that got us into this position.

The sheer gall of it. Perhaps it is their rationalization to try and not feel the guilt they clearly should be feeling. That, or there is no conscience to begin with in some people.
 
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Look at the pond scum that climbed out from under a rock. The balls of these people. THEY are the ones that broadcast loud and clear in 2016 that they did not care about the right to abortion as we screamed from the rooftops that it was on the ballot.. Now, they come here to prattle some more of their nonsense and fuckery that got us into this position.

The sheer gall of it. Perhaps it is their rationalization to try and not feel the guilt they clearly should be feeling. That, or there is no conscience to begin with in some people.
Maybe fear will do it. I recall both these nerds mentioning being queer.
 
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“This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here. I have directed the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak,” Roberts said in a statement Tuesday.
Really, how is it illegal (beyond their ability to claim it is)?

“To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed,” Roberts said.
Undermine the integrity of *our* operations. How does one accomplish that when you lack any integrity?
 

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PS: There are no indications they're going to use this ruling as an opening shot for bringing back slavery. Why would they? Slavery never went away. (The 13th Amendment has a gigantic loophole permitting enslavement as punishment, and the prison-industrial sector in the USA clearly enforces chattel slavery—only under government/corporate management rather than as personal property.)
SOCIALISM!
 

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As ever, it feels as the levers of power are pulled by those with no skin in the game at the expense of those with an entire uterus in it. Once again, then, a huge bravo to all the extremely rational guys whose “conscience” simply declined to permit them to vote for Hillary Clinton, on the basis that she and Trump were basically “the same”. Women now facing same-old same-old prospects like forced birth and wildly increased medical risks can only thank you and your consciences for doing the hard intellectual yards so they don’t have to.
When news of the supreme court draft opinion broke last night, Clinton stated: “This decision is a direct assault on the dignity, rights, & lives of women, not to mention decades of settled law. It will kill and subjugate women even as a vast majority of Americans think abortion should be legal. What an utter disgrace.” We’ve yet to hear Trump’s response – very, very samey, I imagine – so let’s use as placeholder his 2011 statement on the subject: “I am pro-life, and pro-life people will find out that I will be very loyal to them, just as I am loyal to other people. I would be appointing judges that feel the way I feel.” Can’t believe he ended up appointing pro-life judges. If only there’d been some clue his daffy media cheerleaders could have latched on to.
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Joe Biden Presidency, Democrats controlling both houses of Congress, a collapsing economy, failed foreign policy to the brink of nuclear war, and the Orwellian formation of an actual Ministry of Truth. And it's bubblesort who needs to apologize for pointing out that the Emperor is buck naked?

There's a point, bubblesort, where you just have to save your own mind and move on from abusers and their apologists.

This place will never change, and if you stay, you may end up thinking this shit is normal:

I can't with people like you today. Join Bubblesort...birds of a feather and all.
 

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Look at the pond scum that climbed out from under a rock. The balls of these people.
Privileged white boys? Who think this will never actually affect THEM? Who threw their little trantrums back in 2016 and led us to this? And then point the fingers at those of us who fucking warned everyone? Them, you mean? Who've never actually lifted a finger to secure and protect any of the rights they DO have? Them?


Disclaimer I shouldn't have to make but probably do: No, not all white boys nor men.
 

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Joe Biden Presidency, Democrats controlling both houses of Congress, a collapsing economy, failed foreign policy to the brink of nuclear war, and the Orwellian formation of an actual Ministry of Truth. And it's bubblesort who needs to apologize for pointing out that the Emperor is buck naked?

There's a point, bubblesort, where you just have to save your own mind and move on from abusers and their apologists.

This place will never change, and if you stay, you may end up thinking this shit is normal:

Fuck off, you ill-informed, three-haired, pus-infected bloody butt zit festering on the ass cheek of society! It was you, and brain damaged fucknuts like you, that brought this about. Fuck all the way off! 🖕🖕🖕