President Biden on SCOTUS re Texas: “This law is so extreme it does not even allow for exceptions in the case of rape or incest. And it not only empowers complete strangers to inject themselves into the most private of decisions made by a woman—it actually incentivizes them…”
“For the majority to do this without a hearing, without the benefit of an opinion from a court below, and without due consideration of the issues, insults the rule of law and the rights of all Americans to seek redress from our courts.”
“I am directing that Council +Office of WH Counsel to launch a whole-of-govt effort to respond to this decision, looking specifically to the DHHS + DOJ to see what steps Fed Government can take to ensure that women in Tx have access to safe+legal abortions as protected by Roe…”
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I’ve been writing abt Republican assault on women’s rights since 2010. We had an entire section on @politicususa dedicated to bills GOP pushed in every state.
Lots of people tried to convince me this would never happen. They told me to relax. Bill Maher just lectured us that we don’t know real oppression, even though pregnancy is most lethal time for women.
3 women a day are murdered in this country by controlling abusive partners. Pregnancy is most lethal time. Forced pregnancy from rape a form of control.
Meanwhile VP Joe Biden holding a round table with nurses, firefighters, and EMTs to discuss further needs.
Suggestions several steps Trump could take to help manage the #COVID19 pandemic today and look toward coming crises to address them now.
VP Joe Biden tells nurses and other front line people to call him directly if they have trouble getting the help they are entitled to re the legislation passed.
Biden says we should be doing several things:
- Another round of checks in 6 weeks
- Up to $10k student loan debt as proposed by Sen Warren and her colleagues
- Money for states ob unlike fed they can’t have a deficit.
I have been making the case that Republicans would do what they just did for a long time and almost no one agreed with me.
Now that you can all see what the Republican Party has become, let’s talk about WHY and HOW to fix our country.
I have a list.
Perfect storm created this GOP:
- Gerrymandering = less accountability
- Citizens United = loyalty to $
- For profit news= drama is king
- He said/she said journalism enables lies
- Republicans got away w/ outrageous power grabs
- Disinformation assists from Russia et al