The Hill reports, First state abortion bans kick in following Supreme Court ruling: The first state abortion bans have taken effect after the Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, driving home the immediate consequences of the monumental decision. Abortion bans are now in effect in Louisiana, South Dakota, Kentucky, and Missouri, and more … Read more
It is almost anticlimactic after a month of speculation following a leaked draft opinion, but the activist radical Republican U.S. Supreme Court today reversed Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. As the dissenters write, “one result of today’s decision is certain: the curtailment of women’s rights, … Read more
In 2016, Senate Republicans stopped President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said it was too close to the election and that the new president should choose the new supreme court judge. Despite nationwide outcry against this, the Supreme Court functioned … Read more
There is a historical parallel between the Southern segregationist Dixiecrats’ response to Brown v. Board of Education, requiring desegregation of the nation’s schools “with all deliberate speed,” to the Trump death cult of anti-science, anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers response to President Joe Biden’s modest plan to mandate Covid-19 vaccines to get control of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. … Read more
CNN reports, Justice Department sues Texas over six-week abortion ban: The Biden Justice Department sued the state of Texas on Thursday over its new six-week abortion ban, saying the state law is unconstitutional. Announcing the lawsuit at a news conference in Washington, Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Texas law’s “unprecedented” design seeks “to prevent … Read more