U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Ginsburg Edition

She was definitely not in favor of overturning it, she just thought it could and should have been decided on a more solid constitutional basis.

Yep

oh yeah, for sure. No question.

People on my FB feed are posting RBG memes saying “I dissent!” or “Fight back!” or whatever, and it’s all I can do not to reply, “How about fucking retire when you have the chance?”

Was today's vote 6-3 or 5-4? Saw both reported

It was both — 6-3 to allow the Mississippi law (a ban after 15 weeks), but 5-4 to overturn Roe completely, which Robert’s was not up for. Hence the significance of RBG refusing to step down. With another Obama justice on the court, we’d be in a still-bad but not-as-bad situation.

(Autocorrect made Roberts possessive)

McConnell had some role as well, on something, if I remember correctly. I believe he killed rbg

Yeah, McConnell is the prime player for sure. But RBG had more power over this than almost any other person. (Even than Trump, because if she’d retired he wouldn’t have gotten to name her replacement.)

was kind of shocked to see via text from a friend (we volunteered for Abrams’ 2018 campaign) say the same today. I mean, she’s mad at a lot of people but her teeing off on RBG was noteworthy

thanks tipsy. couldn't get a clear summation on it earlier, but that makes sense.

RBG definitely has her share of blame for this. I've been wondering whether there's any larger benefit in pointing that out, and I guess the main thing is that it's a cautionary tale against a certain kind of liberal egotism/hubris/getting a little too high off your own supply.

liberal egotism is the worst

much worse than fascist criminality

I’d honestly forgotten about the RBG retirement thing in this whole mess today until it was mentioned elsewhere. Hell of a way to undo your legacy.

But yes fucking 100% in line with liberal “we got this” complacent arrogance of the time.

I mean it was kind of a combo of prizing individual heroes and narratives above structural power and also taking the superficial "principles" and "norms" a little too seriously instead of just paying lip service to them like we should be doing.

we basically left our future to gambling on when old fossils with robes will die

celebrated moderate Kennedy really got over

Kennedy at least retired strategically and he knew it -- he even picked his successor.

It can impeach and remove justices. It can increase or decrease the size of the court itself (at its inception, the Supreme Court had only six members). It can strip the court of its jurisdiction over certain issues or it can weaken its power of judicial review by requiring a supermajority of justices to sign off on any decision that overturns a law. Congress can also rebuke the court with legislation that simply cancels the decision in question

Jamelle Bouie re what a Congress could do, if we had the numbers and leadership

Key word there being "if"

Nine justices is not enough for a country of 50 states (plus territories) and 300 million people.

We should have 450 justices, with the option of shooting one when they get uppity

Good idea, Lord Alfred! We could fund the court's operating costs by having an annual raffle for the chance to hunt the justices for sport.

2 justices. Duking it out for justice. And the winner gets to be president until they are defeated in physical combat

Thomas vs Alito

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXWVpcypf0w

Ginny Thomas would definitely put gorilla glue in the opponent’s mouthguard and then Clarence would gallantly pretend to hear or see absolutely nothing and to completely ignore any allegations that she was trying to help him or he was trying to help her. “What happens in the ring is completely separate and irrelevant to what happens outside of the ring, even in cases where a gluelike substance may or may not have found its way into my opponent’s mouthguard, many are saying that Thomas Paine believed”, he will think (but not say)

Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education. https://t.co/hrUYCcIq8Y

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 25, 2022

He's got him there — Brown v. Board did limit the rights of millions of white supremacists.

But this Court will put that right, given the chance.

I THINK he's saying Brown corrected a historic wrong like yesterday's case did Roe, but this is John Fucking Cornyn.

Yea that's what it seems in context. Mega clumsy way to put it

‘clumsy’ is being charitable. certainly a troll job if not a trial balloon

Cornyn quick to squander the thimbleful of goodwill the gun bill bought him.

Things Biden could do:

1. Set up abortion clinics on federal land inside red states (@ewarren’s idea)
2. Federal telehealth service for free abortion pills
3. Funding for abortion clinics and travel vouchers in nearby states

None of this is “waiving a magic wand”

— Childless Feminist Slut with Cats (@katewillett) June 24, 2022

Oral contraceptives should be over the counter like they are in over 100 other countries. I will die on this hill.

— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) June 24, 2022

1) I see mentioned behind counter with pharmacist consultation. That makes sense. There are other issues any medications besides ones that most people are aware of. Less known are contra-indications with one's other prescriptions--even BC and HRT.

— 🧜‍♀️Traci Cleaver💉🍸☕🍺B5 ✨FS🐛⭕STOS🖖DS9🌌🦈🐙 (@ChrysantheSEA) June 25, 2022

Dunno of this is right, almost finished

2) also as mentioned by many is that insurance would not cover OTC.

— 🧜‍♀️Traci Cleaver💉🍸☕🍺B5 ✨FS🐛⭕STOS🖖DS9🌌🦈🐙 (@ChrysantheSEA) June 25, 2022

ugh, not deleting and reposting so edit mentioned here:
"There are other issues any medications besides ones that most people are aware of." should be "There are other issues for any medications besides ones that most people are aware of." oh and contraindication has no hyphen.

— 🧜‍♀️Traci Cleaver💉🍸☕🍺B5 ✨FS🐛⭕STOS🖖DS9🌌🦈🐙 (@ChrysantheSEA) June 25, 2022

Don't dare blame RBG for anything when you are a man that publicly posted about liking to jerk off in your office bathroom. Or go about your day and we are all still thinking it.

Feel like I missed something

My liberal boomer mom texted me joking about the potential ironies of loosening gun laws going poorly for 3-6 Justices.

If Ginsberg had retired while there was a Republican majority in the Senate and Obama was President, McConnell would have blocked a replacement as long as possible, maybe 'til Trump came in. Obama tried to get Merrick Garland in there, and even if he had, that's a wishy-washy Republican, a swing vote probably, nobody like Ginsburg (which was also her point when asked about retiring). It was a hell of a situation, whatever choice she made.

1. I deleted a couple of tweets cabout this summary of @PressSec's comments on the filibuster because I now have the transcript and I believe that @ValerioCNN's viral tweet mischaracterized @PressSec's remarks.

🧵https://t.co/lLjnFiDEXw

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 25, 2022

Mischaracterization of the positions of those you disagree with is rife in every part of political discourse. What's odd is anyone acknowledging it.

...the Supreme Court is also set to make another major decision in a less-publicized suit involving climate change.

The case, about how far the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, could affect the way the entire government makes rules and regulations.

With history of this long game.

Yeah extremely worried and despondent about that one

SCOTUS basically running its own version of The Purge here, just one atrocity after another.