I know I'm late but I had to catch my breath after yesterday. I'm going to go out on a limb here & say if the Dems can't turn the midterms around after this, they need to be replaced. Time for a new party altogether.
As for Clarence, I notice all the precedents except Loving was mentioned as up for grabs. Can't imagine how he'd argue that one. I also imagine Plessy v Ferguson could come up for re-evaluation.
Final thought: With the SCOTUS ruling on Thursday re: the NY gun law, any federal gun legislation, no matter how impotent, is DOA. It will be challenged in court by every gun-totting, red state.
1. The GOP has been running on a platform of striking down Roe v Wade for as long as I can remember, and now that they've done it, they're not celebrating? I've read that Trump is privately saying this decision is bad for the Republican Party. Maybe he's right.
2. Collins "feels betrayed" that two justices who were nominated BECAUSE they opposed abortion rights voted to eliminate that right??!?! Of course, she also thought Trump had learned a lesson after his first impeachment, so I guess she's consistent. Her actions and statements seem really stupid, but I don't think she can actually be stupid to have managed to stay in the Senate so long. So what gives?
Thanks for a timely weekend snapshot. We are living in a historic time and the public debate is unimaginably incoherent. It seems the Fourteenth Amendment is suffering the death of a thousand cuts.
I know I'm late but I had to catch my breath after yesterday. I'm going to go out on a limb here & say if the Dems can't turn the midterms around after this, they need to be replaced. Time for a new party altogether.
As for Clarence, I notice all the precedents except Loving was mentioned as up for grabs. Can't imagine how he'd argue that one. I also imagine Plessy v Ferguson could come up for re-evaluation.
Final thought: With the SCOTUS ruling on Thursday re: the NY gun law, any federal gun legislation, no matter how impotent, is DOA. It will be challenged in court by every gun-totting, red state.
Thanks Jamie. I hate to think of what comes next.
1. The GOP has been running on a platform of striking down Roe v Wade for as long as I can remember, and now that they've done it, they're not celebrating? I've read that Trump is privately saying this decision is bad for the Republican Party. Maybe he's right.
2. Collins "feels betrayed" that two justices who were nominated BECAUSE they opposed abortion rights voted to eliminate that right??!?! Of course, she also thought Trump had learned a lesson after his first impeachment, so I guess she's consistent. Her actions and statements seem really stupid, but I don't think she can actually be stupid to have managed to stay in the Senate so long. So what gives?
Thanks for a timely weekend snapshot. We are living in a historic time and the public debate is unimaginably incoherent. It seems the Fourteenth Amendment is suffering the death of a thousand cuts.