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What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard. Tweets speak for myself only.

Oct 22, 2021, 7 tweets

Supreme Court to leave Fugitive Uterus Act in place until Roe is safely dead lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/10/suprem…

Shall we read the dissent issued today by the greatest Supreme Court nominee of the last 40 years? I think we shall. "[E]very day the Court fails to grant relief is devastating, both for individual women and for our constitutional system as a whole."

One critical point: 5CA's initial reasoning for not granting relief is not applicable to this case, and yet it stayed the District Court with no reasoning except a reference to the (now irrelevant) previous ruling!

As usual, to call these cynical games "legal formalism" would be far, far too charitable. Neither 5CA nor the Supreme Court have offered *any legal reasons at all* for staying the most recent District Court order, 131 pages of detailed and persuasive reasoning.

This is the future Republicans want in all 50 states -- panicked, terrified women denied access to reproductive care by state coercion

"The state's gambit has worked. The impact is catastrophic."

"Once again, I dissent." No respect given, because none was earned

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