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C.W.Smith, Atty@Law
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Civil Rights Lawyer / Nashvillian. "Where there's law, there's injustice." --Leo Tolstoy
Nov 3 • 9 tweets • 1 min read
1/ My closest parallel to what is happening in America? France in the year 1830. (THREAD) 2/ In 1830, Charles X issued the July Ordinances, restricting the freedom of the press, dissolving an elected Chamber, and restricting election laws. Barricades and protests erupted in Paris.
Jun 27, 2022 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
After reading the Dobbs opinion, here are some thoughts on what the future might hold:

First, much has been made, rightly, of the Thomas concurrence, which basically invites test case challenges to the rights of contraception, same-sex marriage, and bedroom privacy. As the dissent observes, there is no principled reason those issues would end up any differently based on the majority's analysis. If the men of 1868 didn't believe in abortion rights, they also didn't believe in contraceptive rights or LGBT rights of any kind.