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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.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday June 28 2018, @06:54AM
I always found it odd that the democrats did not repeal the hyde amendment when they had the chance to, they had full control over the legislature and the presidency yet they did not find it important to remove.
So what health plans cover abortion?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/khn.org/news/determining-whether-a-marketplace-plan-covers-abortion-is-still-difficult/amp/ [google.com]
It seems some states do not permit marketplace plans from providing abortions, to me this is illegal. The marketplace is supposed to be a series of private companies that get subsidized by the government? So the check that was in place was that the subsidy could not pay for an abortion, but companies that want to provide it can still work it into their business model and just not pass those costs onto the fed. The laws restricting what marketplaces can cover at the state level seem unconstitutional to me, but the hyde amendment specifically is not.
Looks like while some plans do cover it, there are not many that do. Sounds like a good PR campaign for a multi-state provider trying to corner a market that is okay covering them.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam