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Covered pretty much everywhere (front page of CNN/FOX/younameit).
With the main swing vote in the U.S. Supreme Court leaving, and a replacement nominated by President Trump, the right wing of the court should become clearly dominant, allowing Roe v. Wade opponents, and other right-wing causes, a new chance at victory.
takyon: SCOTUSblog has a round-up of coverage:
Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement today, effective July 31, 2018. Amy Howe covered the news for this blog; her coverage first appeared at Howe on the Court. Other early coverage comes from Richard Wolf of USA Today, Michael D. Shear of The New York Times; Bill Mears of Fox News; Robert Barnes of The Washington Post; Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire.News; Nina Totenberg of NPR; Lawrence Hurley of Reuters; Greg Stohr of Bloomberg; and Pete Williams of NBC News. Analysis of Justice Kennedy's legacy comes from Noah Feldman of Bloomberg; Wolf of USA Today; Mears of Fox News; and Reuters staff. Coverage of the reaction from Congress and the President comes from Carl Hulse of The New York Times; Alex Pappas and Mears of Fox News; Seung Min Kim and Josh Dawsey of The Washington Post; and Alex Seitz-Wald and Rebecca Shabad of NBC News. Patrick Gregory of Bloomberg has a piece looking at potential replacements for Kennedy.
Early commentary comes from Jill Lawrence for USA Today; Bill Blum in The Progressive; Emily Bazelon for The New York Times; Elizabeth Slattery for The Daily Signal; Garrett Epps for The Atlantic; Richard Hasen for Slate; Ian Millhiser of Think Progress; and Joshua Matz for The Washington Post. Another piece in the Post comes from Philip Bump, who focuses on control of the Senate. More commentary comes from Scott Lemieux for NBC News and Matt Ford for The New Republic. Andrew Cohen writes for TNR, and he also has a piece in Rolling Stone. Commentary from Vox comes from Dylan Matthews, Andrew Prokop and Matt Yglesias. Pieklo and Imani Gandy released an emergency podcast reacting to the news. Various law professors give their analysis for Stanford Law School Blog.
Anthony Kennedy was sworn in on February 18, 1988.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 28 2018, @05:07AM (8 children)
Let them do it. I, at this point, am fully in "let it burn" mode. Let them do it, and let them be mobbed and torn from the benches and literally ripped apart limb from limb. The entire system is corrupt. Let it end.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday June 28 2018, @05:31AM (3 children)
Well, no, the conservatives are right here. If they attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade, Americans will pass at least legislation, if not a constitutional amendment, affirming a woman's choice, and more, affirming the right to privacy, which is the controversial basis of Roe v. Wade. Once these things are in law, the conservatives have no leg to stand upon. It will be Ireland all over again, and for Runaway, in spades! The court can no more enforce a cultural standard than presidential executive orders can. And the real problem here, as everywhere, is that he conservatives, whether TMB style libertariantard alt-right sympathizers or the really profoundly ignorant evangelicals, do not understand that they have lost the culture wars. You go against gays, or immigrants, especially children immigrants, you will lose. You go against pot, you will lose. You go against the working class, with tax cuts for the rich and tariffs that cause the next great depression, you will lose. Is Donald tired of losing, yet?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 28 2018, @05:57AM (2 children)
Are you fucking serious? They haven't "lost the culture wars," they've *won* them as soon as another Gorsuchite "justice" is placed, and if it looks like they're going to lose them, they'll do the equivalent of detonating every nuke they have over the homeland so there won't BE a culture to go to war for any longer. You're much too optimistic.
Read J-Mo's posts. Imagine the look in his eyes. Multiply that by millions. We are dealing with the political equivalent of Muslim suicide bomber fanatics here, do you understand this? It's *over." We've passed the tipping point. This isn't going to get better until we're all dead, when these idiots wake up in Hell and realize they've been had.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:55AM
One word: millennials. (and those after them).
If they indeed accept the bullshit pushed on their throat, then yes, everything freezes in the "conservative"** culture and they worth their faith.
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** there's actually no such a thing as unitary "conservative culture" - just look at the current congress, they can't agree what to replace the Obamacare with.
The diehard conservatives (the ones that feel sure on "fuck you, I got mine") want it replaced with nothing/the law of the jungle.
The ones that still want to be reelected for same tens of years ahead think what is the minimum [vox.com] still required for their reelection [newsweek.com].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:11PM
Eh, while I think we definitely need to remain vigilant for Nazi 2.0 I think the rabid RWNJs are not even close to a large enough group. A good portion of Trump supporters are people like TMB, and while his moral compass is pretty fixated on himself I don't think he's stand idly by as people like jmorris start executing people. I do believe that we'll be able to roll back the worst shit Trump does pretty quickly as the country winds down from this political temper tantrum.
The worst case scenario is the most likely one to come about, full dictatorship. However, as I said above people like TMB and possibly even Runaway might finally come to their senses and see how batshit insane the RWNJs are.
Don't worry boys, we liberals see how batshit crazy the PC brigade can be. I watched a comedy show and started cringing at how much they were struggling to insert racism and offense into dialogues. Come join us in reality and stop supporting the crazies just because you can get your rage-on against the "elitist libruhls".
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:28PM (3 children)
The problem with "Let them do it", is that part of their plan is to deny a vote to as many people as possible that might disagree with them, and, failing an outright denial of voting rights, to make those votes not effective.
The Supreme Court appears to be ready to go along with partisan gerrymandering.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:55PM (2 children)
And we can't stop it. It's going to get worse before it gets better. We're past the tipping point now, don't you get it? Whatever happens, we're committed to at least a 50-year cleanup of this mess, and that's assuming we start in 2018, *and* we don't end up in a permanent depression, *and* WWIII doesn't break out, *and* we don't get invaded and taken over by some other country, *and* climate change doesn't go faster than we thought *and* no freak disaster happens.
Look, I'm not afraid to die. I should have died almost a decade ago; in a very real sense I *did* die then and my body just hasn't gotten the message yet. If these idiots succeed, the world they create will be one in which the living envy the dead. I'd rather not see it come to that, but you know, I'm one poor woman with no backup and no support system, teetering on the edge, just waiting for one piece of bad luck to push me over...and bad luck I have in spades, to the point my life story reads like a rejected sitcom script. Things are looking grim, and they look grimmest for the ones at the most disadvantage. I'm white and not too disabled and not sick and can pass for straight because I "present femme," so that gives me a *little* survivability, but that may not count for much just due to how much of this is going to be economic...
When this is all over I am personally going to visit Hell with the express intent of finding all the traitorous sons of bitches like J-Mo and Entropy and spend some time torturing them myself.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:22PM (1 child)
I am one of your advocates around here, and I get that we all spew some hateful rhetoric around here, but "When this is all over I am personally going to visit Hell with the express intent of finding all the traitorous sons of bitches like J-Mo and Entropy and spend some time torturing them myself." is really not a great statement. Don't sully your own soul getting on to their level, because fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, and hate leads to sufferrrringgggg. *cough auuuuuugh lite-fwoooosh*
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday July 01 2018, @02:13AM
Her brain is full of spiders, she's got cobwebs in her soul.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.