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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: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday June 28 2018, @03:47PM (6 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday June 28 2018, @03:47PM (#699853)

    you're conflating reactionary and conservative again.

    The French Revolution gave the English language three politically descriptive words denoting anti-progressive politics: "reactionary", "conservative" and "right". "Reactionary" derives from the French word réactionnaire (a late 18th century coinage based on the word réaction, "reaction") and "conservative" from conservateur, identifying monarchist parliamentarians opposed to the revolution.[6] In this French usage, reactionary denotes "a movement towards the reversal of an existing tendency or state" and a "return to a previous condition of affairs". The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first English language usage in 1799 in a translation of Lazare Carnot's letter on the Coup of 18 Fructidor.[7]

    Sounds like a pretty reasonable case can be made that they are in fact synonyms.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:13PM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:13PM (#699867) Journal

    Oh yeah? Go ask J-Mo which he is and get back to me. Quit the fucking dictionary-trolling. If they weren't two different things we wouldn't need two different names for them.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:45PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:45PM (#699883)

    I've always seen it as a gradient - Radical Reactionary ... so the true Reactionaries are the extreme wing of the Conservatives, just as the Radicals are the extreme wing of the Liberals. There might be other groups even farther out beyond either end, but honestly I've never wanted to explore those areas. The extremes scare me. I'm pretty sure they were damaged somehow in their formative years, to have such disregard for anyone not like themselves. (Pick either end and that statement applies - they're alike in villainy, if not in espoused virtues.)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:47PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @04:47PM (#699885)

      Sorry - forgot I was stepping on HTML tags again with the ASCII arrows.

      Trying again - I've always seen it as a gradient - Radical -- Liberal -- -- Conservative -- Reactionary ... so the true Reactionaries are the extreme wing of the Conservatives, just as the Radicals are the extreme wing of the Liberals. There might be other groups even farther out beyond either end, but honestly I've never wanted to explore those areas. The extremes scare me. I'm pretty sure they were damaged somehow in their formative years, to have such disregard for anyone not like themselves. (Pick either end and that statement applies - they're alike in villainy, if not in espoused virtues.)

    • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:46PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28 2018, @07:46PM (#699948)

      Incorrect! Similar to the trend of equating Democrats and Republicans it is a false one.

      At least in this current age Radicals are much less likely to murder people or infringe on basic human rights compared to Reactionaries. The main shared attribute is the tendency to hold extreme views that won't work in reality and willfully ignore anything to the contrary. Both groups will attack their "enemies" but as stated above the Reactionaries are much more prone to serious levels of violence.

      The division is being spurred on by those who want us divided and it is sad to see the Radicals embracing violence as a regular tool more and more with groups like Antifa. Once they truly become equivalent we will likely see real civil war / domestic terrorism as each side embarks on campaigns of vengeance.