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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo we could pass laws that say no gun sales allowed and
any citizen can sue anyone who sells a gun, right? (:sarcasm
I cannot comprehend how the S. Ct. failed to enjoin the new TX anti-abortion law, when 2 seconds' thought shows the law to be unconstitutional and when there was obvious, immediate, inevitable, measurable harm to countless real-life women and their families if the law went into effect, balanced by zero legally cognizable harm on the other side if the law were enjoined.
leftieNanner
(14,998 posts)A woman from a clinic said that on Wednesday they had 55 appointments. Only 5 were early enough in the pregnancy to get an abortion. The other 50 were sent away with no options.
Anybody here on DU from Maine or Alaska? Maybe give Susie and Linda a call and ask them WTF they were thinking when they voted to confirm these cruel idiots.
I've also never understood why we rolled over when Merrick Garland was blocked.
AZSkiffyGeek
(10,816 posts)The left decided the Supreme Court was less important than voting for Hillary.
PortTack
(32,606 posts)Remember SCOTUS
Mysterian
(4,525 posts)Ooooga booooooga THE LEFT!!!!
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There was even a moment in the Senate before the newly elected Republicans had not yet been sworn in - the Dems had a majority. If Joe Biden (who was President of the Senate) had called for the vote, could he have seated Garland?
Don't know if that would have worked, but they didn't do it. Comity and all that BS.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Women will put their lives on the line, and some will die... What a tragedy!
These asshats forget that most of the time abortions are done for ECONOMIC reasons, women don't take this lightly, it's a very serious and heavy burden to bear, and they have the RIGHT to make that decision for themselves.
ugh
AZSkiffyGeek
(10,816 posts)The state is not the enforcing mechanism of the law, so they can't be sued to stop enforcement of it. There's no standing. That's why the Appeals court vacated the lower court ruling and would not hear it.
If that's the case, someone should be able to sue once one of those bounty lawsuits is entered, and then there will be standing to block it.
Which has me wondering if there ever will be a bounty lawsuit - the whole system is a clusterfuck, and the clinics aren't risking the bounty, so they aren't performing abortions. Is the threat of the bounty having a chilling effect, just by existing, and the lawsuits are just a bluff?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)it's the FEAR of lawsuits, which the RePuQ's hope will cause all the clinics to close altogether.
AZSkiffyGeek
(10,816 posts)But im sure coordinating like that wouldn't work.
Caliman73
(11,694 posts)I mean, the assholes want to punish women for having sex too, but that hits too close to the constitutional issue. They are trying to thread a needle with simply harassing providers out of existence.
They will run afoul of something soon enough.
One thing you can ALWAYS count on for Conservatives, is that they will overreach. They love to say that "the Left" is tyrannical and overreaching, but like most of what they do, they are projecting their own desires onto others.
2naSalit
(86,072 posts)Accusers are anonymous so how would they collect the bounty?
J_William_Ryan
(1,736 posts)The authoritarian right controls the Supreme Court; conservative ideologues who care nothing about settled, accepted precedent and the protected liberties of the people.
2naSalit
(86,072 posts)For starters. They claimed they had no intent to challenge established law or reverse rulings.
dickthegrouch
(3,151 posts)Then we appointment new ones.
2naSalit
(86,072 posts)Rhiannon12866
(203,041 posts)A woman getting an abortion for whatever reason affects only her - and possibly her immediate family.