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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 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.