The US Supreme Court

[Hermit]

What does the court consider damaging in Roe vs Wade?

Men's control of the uterus.

[JimC]

Have to be "deeply rooted in this nation's history and traditions"!?

--these are supposed to be our best legal minds!

What a turd.

So, slavery and not letting women vote are well and truly protected...

[laklak]

Well, everything's a two-edged sword, innit? I mean, after they got the vote they got all uppity. I have to make the bloody coffee in the morning. It's not FAIR!

[Tero]

[Tero]

Guardian:
“When people are nominated to the supreme court and they testify in Senate confirmation hearings, they are very careful about their language,” said Professor Katherine Franke of Columbia Law School. “Something like ‘settled law’ actually has no concrete legal meaning. What it means is that that’s a decision from the supreme court, and I acknowledge that it exists. But it doesn’t carry any kind of significance beyond that.”

During her Senate confirmation hearings, Barrett was arguably even more careful than Gorsuch and Kavanaugh in her language about Roe. She refused to identify Roe as a “superprecedent”, meaning a widely accepted case that is unlikely to be overturned by the court. Instead she promised that, if confirmed, she would abide by “stare decisis”, the legal principle of deciding cases based off precedent.

[Sean Hayden]

--only a lawyer could believe that means anything...

[laklak]

Unfortunately, in our world, it does.

[Tero]

The Satanic Temple plans to use the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to ensure its members can still perform religious abortion rituals with Mifepristone and Misoprostol, even in states that completely ban abortion access. They will also possibly open religious abortion facilities. (reddit.com)
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/commen ... e_federal/

[rasetsu]

The Satanic Temple plans to use the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to ensure its members can still perform religious abortion rituals with Mifepristone and Misoprostol, even in states that completely ban abortion access. They will also possibly open religious abortion facilities. (reddit.com)
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/commen ... e_federal/

Their heart is in the right place, but I don't see this as productive. Abortion is a balancing of state interests and one person's religious freedom does not overrule the rights or protections of another. Religious exercise needs to be neutral toward the interests of others, in general, to be upheld.

[Brian Peacock]

Guardian:
“When people are nominated to the supreme court and they testify in Senate confirmation hearings, they are very careful about their language,” said Professor Katherine Franke of Columbia Law School. “Something like ‘settled law’ actually has no concrete legal meaning. What it means is that that’s a decision from the supreme court, and I acknowledge that it exists. But it doesn’t carry any kind of significance beyond that.”

During her Senate confirmation hearings, Barrett was arguably even more careful than Gorsuch and Kavanaugh in her language about Roe. She refused to identify Roe as a “superprecedent”, meaning a widely accepted case that is unlikely to be overturned by the court. Instead she promised that, if confirmed, she would abide by “stare decisis”, the legal principle of deciding cases based off precedent.

Words don't mean what we said they'd mean when we decide later that they meant something else.

[Tero]

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[Sean Hayden]

[Tero]

[rainbow]

Supreme Court Republican-oriented Toadies undermining Merkins

SCROTUM

[Tero]

Paul Cogan
@PaulCogan
12h
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Barrett, wrote a brief about abortion. She noted the USA needed a “domestic supply of infants” to meet needs of parents seeking infants to adopt. She argued that mothers must birth their baby & give it up for adoption to meet market demands.