Bans Off Our Bodies rallies on May 14
“Supreme Court Leak: Our Worst Fears Confirmed Abortion is still legal. It’s still your right. But the Supreme Court is prepared to end your constitutional right to abortion. Our country is facing an abortion access crisis. By this summer, 26 states could move to ban abortion — affecting 36 million women, plus more people who … Read more
WANTED: Owner/operator of her own uterus.
Many people have already written about the leaked SCOTUS decision on the Dobbs case and no doubt many more will. Here is my take. The decision is 67 pages with 31 pages of appendices. Alito starts by saying it is a profound moral issue with sharply conflicting views. Right off, that is false. Over 80% … Read more
Mad King Donald Wanted To Fire Missiles Into Mexico
Above: The Patriot (MIM-104) is a long-range, all-altitude, all-weather air defence system to counter tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and advanced aircraft. It’s tell-all book time, again, and this time it is former secretary of Defense Mark Esper. The New York Times reports on a passage from his memoir, Trump Proposed Launching Missiles Into Mexico to … Read more
Rep. Andy Biggs’ ‘America First Contract’ (On America) Is An Unserious Joke
Update to The GQP Midterm Agenda: All Culture Wars, All The Time – And Making You ‘Lucky Duckies’ Pay More Taxes: Mitch McConnell has told colleagues and donors Senate Republicans won’t release a legislative agenda before next year’s midterms, according to people who’ve attended private meetings with the minority leader. [S]enate Republican leaders have no … Read more
Dear Justice Alito: One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other
David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, writes at the Washington Post, Reversals usually expand rights. Alito’s ruling would deny them. In his leaked draft opinion for the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. points to Brown v. … Read more
Justice Alito’s Draft Opinion Relies On A 17th Century Jurist Responsible For the Marital Rape Exemption, And Who Executed Women As Witches
Above: Justce Samuel Alito; Sir Matthew Hale. Most Americans have probably never heard of Sir Matthew Hale, an English jurist who was born in 1609. But Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization cites him a half-dozen times throughout his draft as proof that abortion bans are an indispensable part … Read more
VP Kamala Harris: ‘We Are Not Going Back’
A day after Politico reported a leaked working draft of Justice Alito’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the Emily’s List National Conference in a previously scheduled appearance. (I don’t know why this video screen has the wrong background). Transcript of Remarks by Vice President Harris … Read more
