The Right religious conservatives and who knows who else have today overturned the constitutional right to abortion in the US.
Will this now embolden anti abortionists in this country to fight back?
The US is a cold place for women now.
Eli Lilly, which started in Indiana 145 years ago, have reacted to Indiana's new draconian anti-abortion laws, have said they're going to look outside the state for growth. An employer that hires well educated people into STEM jobs and pays well will now do this elsewhere. Way to go, home of Mike Pence.
As of 2022, Lilly is known for its clinical depression drugs Prozac (fluoxetine) (1986) and Cymbalta (duloxetine) (2004) and antipsychotic medication Zyprexa (olanzapine) (1996), though its primary revenue drivers are diabetes drugs Humalog (insulin lispro) (1996) and Trulicity (dulaglutide) (2014).[6] Lilly's achievements include being the first company to mass-produce the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk, and insulin. It was one of the first pharmaceutical companies to produce human insulin using recombinant DNA including Humulin (insulin medication), Humalog (insulin lispro), and the first approved biosimilar insulin product in the US, Basaglar (insulin glargine).[7]
They fucked up
Seems that the Handmaid's college colleagues ain't happy with her. As I recall during her confirmation they wrote a letter recommending against confirming her to the Senate. Might've been a different org at that school.
Colleges and universities don’t like to **** around with these ethics codes, their adherence to these codes help their graduates land jobs. Expect a big counter push against this though. Someone quietly donates several million to make this drama go away.
A pro choice activist says she was injected with Ketamine by a paramedic under the direction/pressure of a police sergeant. She's filed a civil suit.
That's all sorts of fcuked up.
Stay classy.
Takes two to make a baby.
I loved this
If this was really the Senator's office: lol.
Republicans have been having a hard time since the dog caught the car: they have lost every special election that has been held since the Dodds decision came down, even ones they were favored to win. Candidates have been caught in the act of scrubbing their websites of their pro-life rhetoric ahead of the midterms. And Senator Lindsey Graham, who after the Dodd decision was leaked, said it's a states rights issue, has come around this week and said 'no it's not a states rights issue its a human rights issue' and he's done a total 180, introducing a bill for a nationwide 15 week abortion ban - which has been likened to 'handing the Democrats a box of grenades.'
Roe may be over, but Roevember is just around the corner.
Republicans trying hard to pretend like abortion isn't an issue in this midterm: 'inflation inflation inflation'
Everything costs more when your raped daughter is raising her own daughter
The campaign ads are getting quite impactful IMHO.
Civilised countries don't tear themselves apart arguing about whether women can have rights or not.
And, somewhat unsurprising but it brought back memories, there's prior art with Alito leaking pro-Conservative rulings in advance of their being issued, in this case the infamous Hobby Lobby decision. Seems like he told some 'connected' pro-Church activists about it before it was issued. Their 'organizer' who was rabidly anti-abortion has, apparently, come around to just how bad that position was and has spilled the beans.
Any doubts that it was Alito who leaked the Dobbs decision to force fencesitting justices to toe the RCC line are erased. He's leaked things before:
'This happened because someone told me...' doesn't really stack up well to be honest. All Alito has to do is deny it ever happening and then what?
I've no doubt one of the conservative Justices leaked this though, and they leaked it because Kavanaugh was going to switch. They would have zero reason to leak this is in the first place if they didn't catch wind that someone was going to flip.
Why Kavanaugh? Himself Gorsuch and Coney Barrett were hand-picked by the Federalist society for this exact ruling.
Rumors that Kavanaugh wasn't convinced about Dobbs and the twaddle that Alito wrote. Thomas, Alito, Barrett were all on board with it, likely Gorsuch too.
Just rumors, though. We the people will never know whether Alito leaked it, and if he did, why. But the implications around Hobby Lobby in the NYT article at least hint at prior art here. Interesting that evangelical anti-abortion nim has flipped; can't ever trust that type but interesting nevertheless. That plus lots of stories coming out on the evangelicals flipping on TFG seems to indicate that maybe the evangelical industry is regretting their success, perhaps their sheep have woken up a bit and realize they have wives, daughters and other women they care about who might need an abortion and now can die from not getting one.
Because he was believed to have been far from convinced before it leaked. Also, his record of voting wherever Roberts votes is much higher than Gorsuch and Barrett.
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This thread is about Roe v Wade. It is not about Irish abortion laws
Samuel Alito not taking his lifelong appointment all that seriously. Mocking other Justices isn't a good look.
He's such a creep. Later on trying to joke that Kagan would know about AshleyMadison.com, before realising that it's a crap joke and falling over himself trying to correct himself.
Total oddball.
Delete. Wrong thread
House Judiciary cmte began streaming a hearing about undue political influence on the supreme court
| Undue Influence: ‘Operation Higher Court’ and Politicking at SCOTUS | Full Committee Markup | EVENT ID 115220 |
Intersting take
Also think about the various times in history when the only ones who survived of a people were the children that got used for said slavery etc.
But it's been like that for years. It's just fine when It's whoever's side is in. I don't see how it could be fixed.
It's not that long ago that it was common for candidates to have bipartisan support if they were competent. e.g. Ginsburg was confirmed in the Senate with a 96-3 vote. Then the GOP started nominating candidates whose main 'qualification' was religious fundamentalism.
FDR knew.
Not familiar with the quote or what he said.
Through the 1935–36 terms, Roberts had been the deciding vote in several 5–4 decisions invalidating New Deal legislation, casting his vote with the "conservative" bloc of the bench, the so-called "Four Horsemen".[4] This "conservative" wing of the bench is viewed to have been in opposition to the "liberal Three Musketeers".[5] Justice Roberts and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the remaining two justices, were the center swing votes.[6]
The "switch" came in the case West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, when the Court announced its opinion in March 1937.[2] Roberts switched sides and joined Chief Justice Hughes, and Justices Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, and Harlan Fiske Stone in upholding a Washington minimum wage law. The decision was handed down less than two months after President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his court-reform bill. Conventional history has painted Roberts's vote as a strategic, politically motivated shift to "save nine", meaning it defused Roosevelt's drive to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court beyond nine.[7] At the time, much of the public thought Roberts was trying to defeat Roosevelt's proposed legislation, but the historical record also lends weight to assertions that Roberts's decision was made much earlier, before the bill's introduction.[8]
The ruling marked the end of the Lochner era, a forty-year period in which the Supreme Court often struck down legislation that regulated business activity.[9]
So what now more or ? It can always be stuffed.
It sure can.
This business of non-investigating the SCOTUS leak is going to have wide ramifications. The leak itself sealed the midterms immediately, the refusal to hold themselves accountable will seal 2024 too.
