I doubt it. First of all, the Alito draft isn’t necessarily the court’s decision. Most people assume it is, but we’ll have to wait and see. Second, the Supreme Court doesn’t have much of a reputation to begin with, and you can’t lose something you don’t have. Occa[...]
Posts Tagged ‘abortion’
May 3rd, 2022 - 10:54 pm § in Law and Courts
Is the Supreme Court’s reputation irretrievably ruined?
May 2nd, 2022 - 10:30 pm § in Law and Courts
What the leaked draft means for abortion
First, this isn’t a Supreme Court decision yet, only a draft, but it probably reflects what the court’s going to do and is pretty close to the eventual decision’s final form. Republicans are already angrily accusing Democrats of leaking the draft in order to “attack the court[...]
April 28th, 2022 - 3:09 pm § in Politics
She’s baaack!!!
Jean Schmidt (profile here) is the nasty Ohio Republican who, as a member of Congress, called the late Rep. John Murtha (D-PA, bio here)), a career Marine Corps officer and twice-wounded Vietnam veteran, a “coward” on the House floor for not supporting President G.W. Bush’s Iraq mi[...]
April 23rd, 2022 - 3:05 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Could tribes go into the abortion business?
If the Supreme Court lets states outlaw abortion, could abortion clinics still operate on Native American reservations in those states? In theory, the answer appears to be “yes,” because reservations are federal land, and states can’t legislate what happens there. It’s actual[...]
GOP senator struggles with interracial marriage question
Once upon a time interracial marriage was illegal in Virginia and numerous other states. (In fact, even looking at a white woman could get a black kid killed.) These racist laws were struck down in Loving v. Virginia, a 1967 Supreme Court decision (details here). A perplexed Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN, [...]
Spending taxes in the abortion fight is a one-way street
Abortion opponents are adamant they don’t want their taxes helping to pay for abortions. That’s behind the Hyde Amendment (details here), which prohibits using federal funds to pay for most abortions (some states, including Washington, allow abortions to be paid for by Medicaid from the [...]
What’s next, funerals for fingernail clippings?
“It brings me no joy to sue one of our own cities,” Delaware’s attorney general said when she took legal action today against the city council of Seaford, a town of fewer than 8,000 people, for enacting an ordinance that requires “anyone who has an abortion or experiences a miscarria[...]
Forcing kids to be born into poverty
The worst states for children are those with the most restrictive abortion laws, CNN says (story here). Most of the 21 states with anti-abortion laws waiting for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade “fall into the bottom half of state rankings on a wide array of measures tracking the well[...]
What happens when Democrats behave like Republicans
California’s Democratic governor has “directed his staff to collaborate with the legislature and attorney general to draft a bill” to offer cash bounties to citizen legal vigilantes who sue “anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or part[...]
December 1st, 2021 - 11:11 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
The hypocrisy of Susan Collins
“Sen. Susan Collins, the moderate Republican from Maine, favors passing legislation to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into law,” NBC News reported on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 (here), as the Supreme Court listens to oral arguments in a Mississippi case challenging Roe v. Wade.[...]