Can you imagine the sheer amount of seethe that would come from this

This reasonable center-rightist meme that has sprung up in the last couple months about how "actually Liberal European Countries like France have more restrictive laws than Mississippi's 15 week ban" is so f***ing annoying

as if the obvious purpose of the law wasn't to force a court challenge to Roe with the end goal of the most restrictive ban possible (and oh look now the trigger law passed in f***ing 2007 banning it entirely is going to come into effect, who could have foreseen that?)

the latest stupid permutation is apparently "if pro-choice folx just didn't sue to challenge the 15-week ban (that intentionally violates Roe) and just let Mississippi blatantly violate Roe then Roe would still be law" (with the implication that Mississippi would stop at 15 weeks)

they literally passed a six-week ban in 2019 just a year after the 15-week ban and before the 15-week ban even got heard by the Fifth Circuit (which held both unconstitutional for, you know, the exact same reason)

the cases are literally Dobbs I and Dobbs II

what justification exactly does the pentagon have?

They don't need a justification

my bad lol, i meant jurisdiction LOL didn’t see my mistype, i suppose it’s the same tho

They’re a federal institution so state laws don’t really apply to them

news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-051733128.html

i can see it. no way he ain't had a vendetta ever since the moment he was confirmed

spent decades being the quietest in the court (had a famous 10 year streak of not asking a question during oral arguments) and now is all over the news at the opportune time. I remember seeing YouTube comments late 2020 of MAGA folks hoping that would be the time he got his revenge but nah he still waited (his wife tried tho lol)

petty old ass nigga

This is Christian nationalism at work.

But they don’t actually believe that

Someone else answered that it is because the elite are losing a large poor workforce and need it to increase in numbers.

They do... we have Christian nationalists like Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh in the SC with a notable majority.

And we have advocates in many red states that literally vote along this issue and helped lead to the overturning of Roe... And it's what's also behind the next push outlined by Thomas to try and ban protections for contraception and potentially gay marriage next.

We also just saw a further erosion of the separation of church and state with the Gorsuch ruling in that case with the coach in the Kennedy v Bremerton case.

F*** em

They are doing this because it equals votes.

They did it because the people paying them to do it wanted it done, Supreme Court justices don't need to pander to voters

Just learned about the Hyde amendment for the first time today

google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/08/19/flood-funds-abortion-louisiana-00052877

A Louisiana commission is withholding approval of New Orleans flood control funds over city officials’ opposition to the state’s strict abortion ban.

The Louisiana State Bond Commission has twice voted to delay approval of a future $39 million line of credit for a power station to run New Orleans drainage pumps that would protect the city’s 384,000 residents from flooding and have been described as critical for the city’s ability to adapt to climate change.

Both votes, each taken at times when New Orleans was under an active flood advisory, have been at the urging of Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry, who is enraged by city officials’ response to the near-total abortion ban.

“This is them coming right out to the rest of the citizens of the state saying, ‘We don’t care what your law is,’” Landry said at yesterday’s commission meeting.

Louisiana’s abortion ban does not include exemptions for rape or incest, and has forced closure of abortion clinics throughout the state, including in New Orleans. City officials have made their opposition clear, with the City Council passing a resolution this summer asking police, sheriff’s deputies and prosecutors not to enforce the ban. In response to the resolution, which has support from New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, the sheriff said she would not accept inmates accused of violating the ban at the jail, and the district attorney said he would not prosecute abortion providers or patients.

While New Orleans police officers have been directed to investigate alleged abortions and write reports about them, officers have also been instructed not to issue summons or make arrests.

This is them coming right out to the rest of the citizens of the state saying, ‘We don’t care what your law is,’”

Yeah bro I'm sure the citizens of the state all agree that abortions should banned

Not like these laws were made by out-of-touch power hungry gremlins or anything

Texas averages 55 rape-related pregnancies per day

It’s joever