So Roe vs Wade was just overturned. How can we fix the supreme court?
This is a sad day for freedom IMO. I never would have thought that this would have been possible. It also likely means that we don’t currently have a neutral supreme court. What now?
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VOTE!!!
I guarantee you that the right wing/elite pregnant daughters WILL get their abortion!!!
@LadyMarissa Only the naive think this stops abortion, this stops a good amount of safe abortion.
@hat Good thing you’re not in charge. Ok then what? Got a plan for after that?
Y’all should’ve voted for Hillary, just saying. :P
I have no idea. Pack the court, I guess. We can stop pretending the SCOTUS is a “sacred institution” immune from politics and partisanship.
@Blackwater_Park I agree. I lost several dear friends to backroom abortions while the rich girls were sitting up in a hospital bed after have their 5th appendix removed!!!
@Demosthenes: “Y’all should’ve voted for Hillary, just saying.”
I know you’re joking, but this shit is real. Everyone warned against running Clinton, who was the only candidate that statistically couldn’t beat Trump. But that’s who the Democrats got behind.
And yes, the Dems will use this to fundraise even more, despite the fact that they never codified into law something as basic as reproductive freedom – even when they had majorities. And Pelosi has been still supporting anti-abortion candidates (Cuellar in TX) despite this shitshow.
Abortion was the only thing Dems used to scare people into voting for them. And now what? Now they’re going to do something?
@Demosthenes “Y’all should’ve voted for Hillary, just saying. :P”
I was going to say the exact opposite. If Hillary hadn’t done the Pied Piper Strategy then we’d not be in this mess. Decades of meeting Republicans in the middle has lead to this extreme rightward shift away from FDR. Had Democrats not become the wine cave party, they would be dominating elections across the country.
At the cost of further entrenching the 2 party system: Enfore a 50/50 split between R and D appointed justices, with a tie-breaker being a vote by the citizenry.
It is amazing to me that this can possibly come as a shock to anyone. It is equally surprising that this one should be necessary to conclude the neutrality of the court little beyond a fairy tale. In the end, the retrograde decision is just another nail in the coffin of progress as well as another indicator on the increasing stratification of the country. By now we all should be braced for the slew of dependably regressive bullshit anticipated from today’s sad version of the nation’s “legal giants.”
@HP: I don’t think today’s decision is a shock to most people.
Excellent distraction for the Jan 6 Committee Hearings!!!
@LadyMarissa – you think so? I feel like these were timed to dovetail together in time for the midterms. They certainly have a similar radical, authoritarian flavor, and center around the actions of a despised former President.
Another hiccup in our country’s march of progress. If the country lasts, this decision along with those others (like that bullshit of corporations having the rights of people without the obligations) all of it will be regarded as obtuse as the Dred Scott or Plessy rulings.
I suppose educating ourselves and picking good leaders is out of the question.
@Smashley Good leaders are coerced into following along and “playing the game”.
Read about what happens to the good police. Ever heard of Serpico?
I think Kansas will remain unscathed for now.
I have August 2nd on my calendar.
@Blackberry – I mean… he’s a hero who started to change things and didn’t even die, just had Al Pacino immortalize him. I don’t think it’s a cautionary tale against doing the right thing. Its a hero’s journey. Some of our best stories are about shielding yourself with conviction and walking through the fire.
Impeaching the justices because they now declare stare decisis invalid.
Stare Decisis does not end because opinions are sometimes overturned. Would you really want a system where righting a wrong opinion was disallowed?
These Justices claimed stare decisis as settled law, then violated it.
This will eventually break the other way. Potential justices will claim the 2nd Amendment is settled, then change their minds when the numbers allow it.
The supreme court is trumped by the constitution. If the Dems can make 67% or more support in the House, Senate and President, all at the same time, they can start making constitutional changes.
@RedDeerGuy1 They will also need 34 states to approve it.
That’s what stopped the ERA.
@RedDeerGuy1 They can’t even get 50% on anything important!!! Old Mitch would have a stroke & shut down the Senate before he’d let 17% of his party vote with the Dems!!!
The court doesn’t need fixing.
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