Excuse this foreigner for what he is about to say.
My experience observing the US over a VERY long period of time is, unlike other countries, nothing is ever truly settled in the USA. Any issue can be resurrected. Sometimes that is good but often it is bad.
In Canada, the abortion issue is settled. Period. No politician will resurrect that issue in my lifetime.
Oh, it’s just something conservatives said to call liberals hysterical for insinuating that abortion access was on the line.
It was, of course.
It’s more than that. Stare decisis was an important legal principle until a year or 2 ago. Now the SC can change their decisions as often as their underwear. Whoever delivers the most cash wins.
Doesn’t just have to be cash. If you compare 2nd amendment cases, Bruen and Rahimi are hard to reconcile logically and there was no money on the line there.
In terms of abortion, Alito has indicated in oral arguments that he believes in fetal personhood. Prominent anti-abortion activists such as Liz Hawley, whose husband is a Senator so she has real influence, have revived a theory that fetal personhood + the 14th amendment would mean a blanket abortion ban at the federal level. If Trump wins and 70 year old Sotomayor dies, it’s possible that we will get a 5th justice who buys into that (Roberts and ACB seem flatly opposed).
He doesn’t need anyone to die since he’ll use a trifecta to expand and pack the court to give him a third term:
In a 7-6 decision Justice Cannon writing for the majority, “The 22nd Amendment does not apply since it is not consistent with the history of presidential eligibility that the founders laid out, and even if it were, it only applies to consecutive terms because [find rationale to include before submitting opinion]. Also the radical libs were really mean during the first term which grants extra time in office to MAGA.”
Let’s hope he doesn’t go there. That’s too dangerous for either party to attempt. There were many calls for Biden to do so and I’m glad he didn’t.
Since Steve Bannon is going to jail, Mike Johnson led a vote to overturn much of the findings of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In part, they say it was unfair for Nancy Pelosi to not fill some empty seats on the committee with Republicans, after the Republicans selected for those seats including Kevin McCarthy boycotted the committee they were invited to.
So, they’re reversing much of the official House position that came from said committee, so that they can file an amicus brief in court on behalf of Bannon, and by extension, Trump.
people seem to have more extreme positions nowadays, i blame social media where extremism is rewarded due to algorithms.
they overturned another law that dates back to 1984 involving how much power the regulators have over big business.
What do you think the odds are that they are clueless what it means and just thought the shirt was cool?
I don’t have confidence in that belief. The social conservative wing of the CPC seems anxious to go after it.
Hope you’re wrong.
I’m guessing we’ll find out quickly if the election goes as currently predicted.
Gonna take a grass-roots effort of NOT TRUMP activists reminding everyone what a shit show The USA will be to live in for anyone not kissing that fat fuck’s feet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/us/politics/trump-liz-cheney-treason-jail.html
Former President Donald J. Trump over the weekend escalated his vows to prosecute his political opponents, circulating posts on his social media website invoking “televised military tribunals” and calling for the jailing of President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer and former Vice President Mike Pence, among other high-profile politicians.
One post that he circulated on Sunday singled out Liz Cheney, the former Wyoming congresswoman who is a Republican critic of Mr. Trump’s, and called for her to be prosecuted by a type of military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals. “Elizabeth Lynne Cheney is guilty of treason,” the post said. “Retruth if you want televised military tribunals.”
Another white supremacist rally flying the swastika in Nashville.
This hasn’t been spotted in Nashville since last weekend.
Seem to be a growing number of Republicans who are realizing that they have lost their party. Still expect most of this group to vote for Trump though.
RINOs. Where have they been? Hard to take anyone seriously that simultaneously thinks that 1) they are important in today’s Republican Party and 2) that they have been paying any attention whatsoever for most of a decade now.
This is the logic of virtually every “principled” Republican who’s still in the party:
PR: “I fucking hate what Donald Trump has made the Republican Party, it’s now everything I fought against and denounced as not being part of the party’s values.”
Reporter: “So, does this mean you’re going to vote for Biden in November?”
PR: “Hell no, I’m not. Another Biden term would destroy America. I’m a good Republican, I’ll vote for whoever our nominee is regardless of how much I hate him.”
Reporter: “Even if that permanently solidifies the Republican Party as being for everything you’re against.”
PR: “Yeah, that’s still better than voting for a Democrat.”
And then they’ll spend 4 years wondering how the Republican Party got to where it is and wonder how they’ll ever get it back, and repeat the same logic 4 years from now.
