The US Supreme Court

[JimC]

Duelling courts...

[Tero]

US Supreme soon to ban abortion pill.
Alito
http://karireport.blogspot.com/2022/07/ ... n-our.html
will be explaining that supervision of abortion pills is not in our history and tradition. Best to ban them all. Throw in the birth control pill too.

[Tero]

The likely outcome is that the Consitutuion in all its wisdom does not authorize the federal gov't to regulate dangerous abortion drugs. Because life begins at conception.

[Tero]

Comstock act bans all mailing of sex related stuff:
RS
Thomas was more blunt as he questioned a lawyer for Danco Laboratories, manufacturer of mifepristone: “How do you respond to an argument that mailing your product and advertising it would violate the Comstock Act?” He added the statute “is fairly broad, and it specifically covers drugs such as yours.” The lawyer responded that the law had not been enforced in decades and “I don’t believe that this case presents an opportunity for this court to opine on the reach of the statute.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 234994335/

[Tero]

Made up "legal" tool:
De Girolami also neglects to consider that, in each of these cases, the court dishonestly manipulated the history it purported to rely on, each time ignoring briefs by historians that attempted vainly to educate the judges. (The dishonesty is nicely anatomized in Jack Balkin’s important new book, “Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation.”)

The basic problem is that tradition does not come in packaged units. Any invocation of tradition will select some aspects of the past, in a way constrained only by the writer’s inventiveness. In these cases, “tradition” is so malleable that it has no independent capacity to influence the outcome.
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4 ... icans/amp/

[Sean Hayden]

The basic problem is that too many people wake up every day knowing how the world ought to be. You want one thing, and some other asshole wants another, and you're both producing bullshit just as fast as you can to get it. That's why the idea of freedom is so appealing, it promises to protect me from the majority of bullshit. I can choose not to engage in the dumbfuckery and pursue my own agenda instead...but alas, the shit has been spread so far, and piled so high, I can't help stepping in it.

[Brian Peacock]

Your neck deep in it. Time to head for higher ground?

[Tero]

SC to determine if homelessness is a crime. Oregon case up soon.

[JimC]

Being anything other than a rich, white conservative US male is a crime...

[macdoc]

a rich, white conservative US male

is suspect as well....

[JimC]

Only by the woke...

[Tero]

Breaking: The MAGA Supreme Court majority appears ready to rule that the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" doesn't extend to women with pregnancy complications or who otherwise need abortions.

This is horrifying, and it is because of Donald Trump.