Hours after the Supreme Court issued its Friday ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and, with it, the constitutionally protected right to an abortion, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) sat down with the New York Times to voice her surprise that we’ve ended up here.
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Sens. Warren and Smith have an op-ed in the Times today in which they say at the bottom of a lengthy and quite good article …
Ask every Senate candidate to commit to reforming the filibuster rules, so that the chamber can pass federal legislation protecting the right to reproductive freedom. If voters help us maintain our control of the House and expand our majority in the Senate by at least two votes this November, we can make Roe the law all across the country as soon as January.
Great. But for any of this to happen you are going to need at least a few senators to get the ball rolling. And getting the ball rolling means making a clear bumper sticker-like pledge and goading colleagues to sign on. It has to be at the top of the article not at the bottom of a laundry list at the end.
Continue reading “It’s Time To Get Focused on a 2022 Election Pledge”Roe Is No More
The conservative majority Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1970s ruling that gave Americans the constitutional right to have an abortion.
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Providers Stop Offering Abortions As Red States Pounce To Ban Procedure
With trigger laws banning abortions long waiting in the wings, abortion providers in red states are already, hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, being forced to stop offering the procedure.
Continue reading “Providers Stop Offering Abortions As Red States Pounce To Ban Procedure”Welcome Back To A Pre-New Deal America
From a longtime reader and top echelon DC lawyer:
Continue reading “Welcome Back To A Pre-New Deal America”Agree with what you just wrote. But don’t separate what the Court has done on guns and Roe—and what’s surely coming on affirmative action in the cases already granted for next term and what Justice Thomas is foreshadowing on other constitutional rights—from the Court’s decisions on federal agency authority. And the long series of rulings whittling away at individuals’ ability to obtain relief in court when injured by violations of the Constitution and federal law—rights don’t mean much when there is no remedy for violations.
The Current Court is Sunk in Corruption, Just Like Fox News
The modern conservative judicial movement always had abortion and the reversal of Roe v Wade as its central empowering goal. Many intellectuals and activists had different political and goals. But those often esoteric and complex goals were never what powered the politics and the appointments. That was always abortion. When white evangelicals made their pact with the scofflaw libertine Trump, it wasn’t about “takings” or delegation or “originalism.” It was about abortion. So today represents a victory for the conservative judicial movement, later embodied in The Federalist Society, that was five decades in the making.
There are many observers who despise the results but yet still grant the legwork. There was a liberal Court that made all sorts of liberal decisions, the story goes. Conservatives didn’t like that. So they got organized and changed it. Liberals did it first and then conservatives did it.
But that story was never really quite right.
Continue reading “The Current Court is Sunk in Corruption, Just Like Fox News”Thomas Calls For SCOTUS To ‘Reconsider’ Rights To Same-Sex Marriage, Contraception
Much of the 213-page decision overturning abortion rights is concerned with what the justices are really saying.
Continue reading “Thomas Calls For SCOTUS To ‘Reconsider’ Rights To Same-Sex Marriage, Contraception”Roe v Wade Overturned
In case you missed it Nicole LaFond and Kate Riga discussed this morning’s SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe, on Twitter. Listen through the link below and follow us on Twitter @TPM to join the next one.
Congress Passes Modest Gun Reform Bill After SCOTUS Hands Down Anti-Regulation Opinion
The House passed a bill aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people Friday, a day after the Senate did so in a break from the usual Republican obstruction of even the mildest gun reform measures.
Continue reading “Congress Passes Modest Gun Reform Bill After SCOTUS Hands Down Anti-Regulation Opinion”Alito Changed Next To Nothing From The Leaked Draft
Justice Samuel Alito and the conservative majority changed almost nothing in the opinion published on Friday, making practically the same draft ruling leaked to Politico in May the law of the land.
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