Breaking... US Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade

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.

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.

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.

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.

Civilised countries don't tear themselves apart arguing about whether women can have rights or not.

'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.

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.

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.

House Judiciary cmte began streaming a hearing about undue political influence on the supreme court

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.

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.