Cant imagine how this tiny panel of judges can rule on other cases.
Clarence Thomas has already said what he's aiming for next. He wants to "correct the error" of gay marriage.
SupremeAC said:I'm all for women deciding themselved5 on the matter of abortion, but 24 weeks like how it was for the last 5 decades seems like a very long period. Surely it doesn't take that long to come to a decision?
If you're carrying it that long, you almost certainly intended to have the baby carried to term, but are forced into a situation where you can't continue. You will have put together a nursery, gone through names, told family and friends. Abortion isn't decided based on an arbitrary line, because an arbitrary line, is, well, arbitrary. Casey v Planned Parenthood established fetal viability as the standard line because at that point it's essentially a c-section -- the fetus can survive outside the womb. Prior to that the fetus is dependent on the host's body, and said host cannot be forced to provide such body in the same fashion that you cannot be forced to donate a kidney.
The problem is much broader than "simply" abortion, though we shouldn't downplay the importance of it. As I've said, abortion rights are foundational to gender equality. But to undermine the decisions in Roe and Casey is to undermine the basis of what we understand to be human rights. Since there is no coherency to the court's overturning of these precedents, it's going to be legal chaos. It's like if you try and do math, but 1 = 2.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileI should have known things were more nuanced than what reaches our shores. I think over here abortion is possible up to 12 weeks regardless, and further down the line if medical reasons justify it.
Anyhow, on to the topic of the day: SCOTUS killed the federal law that limits carbon emissions. This basically boils down to every state being able to decide if they care about emissions by themselves? That's the end of the fight against global warming then. The days of the USA being the leader of the free western world are now far behind us. They're more like the drunk uncle of the free western world now. I hope this won't snowball in to a whole slew of countries deciding that they too then shouldn't care about climate issues.
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SupremeAC said:I should have known things were more nuanced than what reaches our shores. I think over here abortion is possible up to 12 weeks regardless, and further down the line if medical reasons justify it.
Anyhow, on to the topic of the day: SCOTUS killed the federal law that limits carbon emissions. This basically boils down to every state being able to decide if they care about emissions by themselves? That's the end of the fight against global warming then. The days of the USA being the leader of the free western world are now far behind us. They're more like the drunk uncle of the free western world now. I hope this won't snowball in to a whole slew of countries deciding that they too then shouldn't care about climate issues.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Well, today's the day that Boris Johnson finally resigned. I'm sure he wishes he had more rabid followers who he could have asked to violently storm parliament so he could keep his throne.
I can't say that I know very much about him, but from what I've read his whole career has been built on nothing more than his wit, high self esteem and showmanship. He geniunely seems to believe everything is always someone else's fault.
Sounds familiar.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileI think Brexit and Boris had less to do with authoritarianism or far-right than it had to do with how the UK sees itself. They still see themselves as this great nation that once controlled large area's oversea. Having to bow to the EU was always a sore point. They're sticklers for tradition, and traditionally they've been GREAT and they saw freeing them of the EU as a chance to be GREAT again. Then along came Boris, who I don't think really cared much for any of it other than being concerned over how he could rise as high as fast as possible. And once his ambition had plateaud and his arese was sat on the PM's chair, all he cared about was keeping the seat as long as possible. But Boris also doesn't seem to care for tradition or doing a particularly good job, which then didn't go down well with the rest of his party. So tradition got him there and tradition got him kicked out.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileIn more important news, Jill Biden is sorry for comparing Latinos to tacos.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileEllyoda said:How badly has my brain been politically pickled that without reading the details I knew exactly how she'd compare them?
Oh no!
The Japanese government is holding some kind of contest to come up with a way to get Japanese youngsters to drink more alcohol. 40 years ago taxes on alcohol accounted for 5% of the global income of the government, against 1.7% in 2020.
Finally a government that isn't afraid to tackle the real issues in society. This is a campaign that I could support, where I can make the difference.
There is no bottom. I'm not just playing around with words when I describe Republicans. This is who they are.
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