Barrett is now refusing to say that Griswold v. Connecticut was properly decided.

[madaboutharry]

I believe the reason is because she believes birth control is wrong.

She does not believe that right to privacy is a protected Constitutional right.

This is all we need to know as to her future opinions on Roe cases.

Oh my god, this woman is a nut job.

[VivaResitance]

1. At this point

What can we do? We will need to mitigate the damage this court is going to do to all of us.

[bluestarone]

2. YEP their loading their bases BUT

WE will be coming to bat and it's only the second inning! It will take all of four years to UNDO it!

[The Magistrate]

3. That Is Next On The List, Sir

"Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate."

[Moostache]

7. Hmm...haven't heard that before....explains alot about god's vengeance on me though... (n/t)

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. Opening sketch to Monty Python's THE MEANING OF LIFE...

[MyOwnPeace]

10. Another Monty Python classic!

[dalton99a]

4. Yep, gotta crank them out

[Rice4VP]

5. It's a waste of time to ask her any questions.

[Moostache]

6. After the election all steps available to rebalance the judiciary MUST be on the table...

This is tyranny by minority-opinion rule and a 6-3 court for ANY length of time is simply mocking representative republic governance. WE did not sign up for a religious theocracy and we should not therefore accept it being imposed upon the nation quietly.

Expand the Senate AND the Court immediately, then begin impeachment of unqualified hacks that have been politically appointed under McConnell/Trump. As insane and single-minded as the GOP and Trump have been at undoing ANYTHING Obama passed? WE must be equally insane and focused on undoing McConnell/Trump damage to the nation and the judiciary.

Then its on to Citizen's United and beyond...

[Zoonart]

8. I have been involved with the women's reproductive rights movement since the 80's.

Abortion is the wedge issue.... the real goal is to ban birth control and it has been from the beginning.
They want to criminalize abortion and then go after birth control.

[blueinredohio]

11. If she thinks birth control is wrong why does she only have

5 biological children? At 40 some years old she should have a boatload.

[alterfurz]

12. because she's only had sex 5 times?

[blueinredohio]

14. Good response

I worked with a guy who was a very strict Catholic, (carried a picture of Mother Teresa with him.) When I retired in 2013 he had 12 kids. I don't know how many he has now.

[qazplm135]

13. Roe flows from Griswold

if Roe is "wrong," then Griswold is too.

That's the danger of this extreme right wing legal philosophy. Same with Social Security and Medicare. Conservative legal theory considers both unconstitutional.

There's a lot more than abortion in danger if Barrett gets on the court.

I don't think Kavanaugh is quite that far nutty, or Roberts. But Alito and Thomas certainly are.

Open question about Gorsuch. I suspect no on most of that, but probably yes on Roe. Kavanaugh would probably walk up to the door on limiting Roe to uselessness but not quite overturn it.

[Hortensis]

15. THIS. Of course. The right to privacy, our right to

keep an authoritarian and hostile government’s nose out of our private lives, is Actually stated NOWHERE in the constitution.

Only in the 1960s, when the state of Connecticut made contraception a crime, was a right for the people to make these decisions for themselves INFERRED by the liberal-dominated Supreme Court of that time. At that it was only inferred for married couples. A couple years later, after continued more government persecution of others who thought it was their choice, it was inferred for all.

Ever since, the right to privacy — which also includes such things as being able to search for information on the Internet, and of course abortion— has been a major target for repeal by predatory, economic, racist, misogynistic, religious and other types of authoritarian forces.

Of course they’re packing the courts for that, and also to make unconstitutional such progressive government programs as Social Security and Medicare, now that a nation of fools gave them the power to — Because they couldn’t imagine anyone would go that far. In spite of attempts to do just that all their lives and their parents’.

...that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.