Are they trying to get me to vote for Biden twice?
Democrats plan to "flood America" with illegal immigrants and force police officers to choose between their jobs and enforcing unconstitutional laws. No not THOSE laws.
BYPASS CONGRESS FOR GUN CONTROL by allowing businesses to decide whether to sell guns.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Sidney Powell alleges that Judge Flynn should be recused because he said unflattering things about her client while he was sentencing him for a felony.
She alleges that he said these things because of Rachel Maddow, and not because of the facts before him.
Contrary to Justice Thomas' thin-skinned complaint, it's not Obergefell that brands people opposed to gay marriage as bigots. That's the cultural shift that occurred when lots of young people came to accept gay marriage, and lots of older people died. /1
As for the argument that Kim Davis' religious liberty was threatened when a gay couple asked for a marriage license, I am skeptical that Justice Thomas would extend this anywhere else.
/2
Imagine, for instance, someone with a sincere religious objection to marrying people who had committed serious domestic violence.
That's a valid complaint, from a sincere place, and yet the Court would likely say it was none of that person's business. /3
I think it would be interesting to study, if SCOTUS overturns Roe and Casey, how many states have already declared fetuses to be persons, which would make abortion, or travel to get abortion, murder, with no statute of limitations.
Also interesting would be whether a law that is on the books, but unenforceable, may be applied retroactively if that law is declared constitutional.
If I were looking to point out the problems with forcing women to give birth, I think the purely discretionary enforcement of laws carrying mandatory life sentences would be a good thing to focus on.
The 11th circuit said the reason this was not a poll tax was because the fines were part of a felon's punishment. There's no rule against paying off someone else's fines, even if it incidentally means they can now vote.
And it's not an incentive to vote because the felon doesn't have to make any promises to get the fine paid.
Indeed there are some people in the world who might see millions of dollars being paid into court systems and victim's funds from out of state as a good thing.
First off, people aren't being that indirect about it. They're actively worried that Casey (not Roe) will be overturned, leading to the pervasive surveillance and incarceration of pregnant women.
But of course, you don't need to make abortion a crime to reduce it:
You know, there was never a meaningful principle to keep Republicans from filling this slot. To people who strongly believe that abortion is murder and disrespect of police is dangerous, there's a moral imperative to enforce that view.
For the vast majority of this country's history, the Supreme Court has been a conservative institution, opposed to most things that liberals want. And yet, people still gained important freedoms.
So the next 30 years, minimum, will be spent on defense. Laws important to liberals will be struck down. But if folks can be half as galvanized by this change as conservatives were in the wake of Roe, this may create an issue, election after election, that makes people vote.