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posted by takyon on Wednesday June 27 2018, @11:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the elections-have-long-term-consequences dept.

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.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by aristarchus on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:03AM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:03AM (#699684) Journal

    I don't care as long as I don't have to pay for it.

    Sulla, you basket case republican! I hope you are in a serious accident, and find yourself in a hospital, and need lots of blood transfusions. Fine, as long as I don't have to pay for it! Especially the blood that I donated so that dangerous drivers like you might not die! Of course, the Blood Bank does charge, and your insurance, which I also paid for (you do understand the principle of distributed risk? No? Not smart enough to understand that you could never, ever, afford to pay for , your own medical care, when you need it, but the rest of us have got you covered?) Now, why cannot you see that this applies to other medical procedures? I hope you bleed out, before I have to pay to save your sorry ass.

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  • (Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:12AM (1 child)

    by Sulla (5173) on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:12AM (#699687) Journal

    Thats the point. I presume a Jehova's Witness would be interested in purchasing insurance that did not cover blood transfusions or transplants, as they will never need them.

    A distributed risk model is great, and there is no reason to not have choices of the ones you want to participate in. Insurance company A covers abortion, insurance company B does not. 50% of the population would be just fine with insurance company A, and the other 50% with B. They were each able to purchase insurance and participate in a system that does not infringe on their morals.

    Also, you are volunteering to donate your blood, knowing the risks people take with their own. You could choose not to. What you say would be a different thing completely if you were being compelled to donate your blood.

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    Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:19AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:19AM (#699708) Journal

      Thats the point. I presume a Jehova's Witness would be interested in purchasing insurance that did not cover blood transfusions or transplants, as they will never need them.

      Oh, they might need them, but not want them, due to their totally crazy interpretation of scripture as prohibiting the eating of blood, and not realizing that a transfusion does not go throught your Goddamned digestive tract. But they can just ferping die. Their kids, however, and not competent to make such a totally insane interpretation of the religion they are accidently born into. It is much like being a Republican in Alaska, sometimes society has to make decisions for you, since you have be brainwashed, or grew up in MaTsu.

      I choose to donate blood. You owe me your life, Sulla. Show some fucking gratitude! Or, you could be like a story I heard from a fellow philosopher. They were studying in France when the Germans arrived, she wore blue, the Germans wore grey. But since she was Jewish, she was put into a Frent-stalag. I don't now if being an American saved her, but she stayed there until the Allies arrived. During the battle around the camp, some wounded soldiers were brought in, and she was blood-typed to one who needed a transfusion. They hooked her up. The young Nazi regained consciousness, looked at the IV in his arm, followed it to our philosophy student, looked at her, and said: "Are you a Jew?" She told the truth, and the Nazi pulled the IV out of his arm, and died. Good riddance, I say, and she should have punched him in the face for good measure before he passed, but this philosopher was bothered for the rest of her life, always asking herself whether she should have lied, to save her enemies life. This is the kind of morality that I fear escapes you, Sulla. And I request that you meditate upon it, for at least a few moments.