#supreme court nomination

[rezhood]

I would make a post about how Sandra OConnor is rolling in her grave, but she is literally still alive. The first woman who ever served on the US Supreme Court is still alive. The Judge who cast the deciding vote in multiple abortion based cases (all which upheld Roe v Wade) is literally still alive. She could still be on the court right now, dementia be damned, because she is still alive but chose to retire. The MOTHER who legalized abortion is still alive. The white Christian Republican woman who voted in favor of upholding Roe against the wishes of her party, her religious leaders, and Ronald Reagan who nominated her thinking she was anti abortion… is still alive right now.

It wasn’t long ago at all. I don’t know whether to say it’s sad how fast the world forgets, or how terrible it is Christianity still makes laws in the US, or how terrifying it is to watch these powerful and ignorant people take away peoples freedoms like it’s nothing. I don’t know what will happen if RvW is actually overturned, I just think it’s awful how quickly progress can be undone by a couple of bitch ass judges. Sandra Day OConnor voted against her personal beliefs because she had empathy for those who had to chose and understood what it meant to sit on the Supreme Court. I wish the current Christian justices were half as good, morally and at their jobs.

#Also so help me god if anyone tries to claim I’m some sort of Sandra oconnor stan over this I will find you and stick my middle finger #up your nose and into your brain #so this is my official certified press statement that I do not agree with every decision Sandra oconnor made #she is definitely an interesting woman tho #and she is the only reason abortion was legalized because Regan wanted a anti abortion judge for a nomination and he chose wrong lmao #sandra day o'connor #scotus #roe v wade #abortion #supreme court #usa politics #USA #edit: I changed the thing for clarification my b #this was intended as a vent post I didn’t put a lot of time into proof reading cause didn’t think anyone would see it #also I assumed that most Americans have a good idea who SDO is and apparently that is very wrong (yikes) #also misspelt Reagan which might be embarrassing if I had any respect for him

[tomorrowusa]

Looking for a Republican who is moderate on abortion???

Then definitely forget Nikki Haley.

It's a no-brainer: You don't get to be the GOP governor of South Carolina nor a member of the Trump administration by supporting reproductive freedom.

Paul Waldman at the Washington Post shines a light on Haley's views and how she'd act as president. (emphasis added)

[A]nyone tempted to believe Haley is a moderate on abortion should be warned: She isn't. Haley's approach is likely to be adopted by the GOP presidential nominee — even if that person isn’t Haley herself. But that will be just as misleading because no Republican administration will seek a moderate course on abortion. It will adopt an extreme right-wing stance in ways that right now are being ignored. [ … ] Haley, meanwhile, delivered lines she uses frequently, calibrated to sound sensible and sympathetic: "Don’t make women feel like they have to decide on this issue," she said, "when you know we don’t have 60 Senate votes" to overcome an inevitable filibuster of a national ban. She argued that legislation should focus on areas of potential "consensus," such as a ban on late-term abortions and allowing medical personnel to refuse to participate in procedures they object to. [ … ] Haley is on record supporting a national ban, even if she acknowledges it wouldn’t pass. That means her real plan is to enact a series of steps limiting abortion access, leading up to a national ban as soon as Republicans have the votes to enact it. [ … ] The judges President Haley would appoint would also not be abortion moderates; they would almost certainly come from the Federalist Society’s judicial pipeline to guarantee their conservative bona fides, especially on abortion. Even if she wanted to appoint moderate judges (and there’s no indication she does), it would trigger a revolt within her party. In fact, it’s unlikely anyone she appoints to any high position in the federal government with an influence over health care would be pro-choice.

No Republican president in this century has appointed a US Supreme Court justice who supports reproductive freedom. Despite the soothing double-talk we hear from Haley, she would be no different.

Supporting reproductive freedom means voting Democratic in federal elections and never missing an election. If there are any moderate GOP office holders left in DC they would only tell you so in some back alley after scanning the area for listening devices.

So let people know, starting now, that a vote for Republicans (including Nikki Haley) is a vote against a woman's right to choose.

#republicans #nikki haley #abortion #the fallacy of 'moderate' republicans #the gop #the sanctity of reproductive freedom #a woman's right to choose #roe v. wade #dobbs v. jackson women's health organization #scotus #us supreme court #republican nomination for president #election 2024 #paul waldman

[magicianmalpractice]

today, thank a horse girl for your existence

#papa louie #papa louie fanart #my art #flipline peggy #i nominate her as part of my 'make cowgirls as gay as cowboys' act. the supreme court of the USA is working on it okay 🤞 #her outfit is an amalgamation of her various ones because for funzies #curious as to whether these captions are getting gout of hand. just 'peggy!!! <3' have sufficed I'm just

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

I love that every year I see fewer and fewer people in my social circle celebrating the 4th of July, people are FED UP with the US

#this year especially #why would I celebrate the country I had the misfortune to be born in #literally just DAYS after the supreme court said 'fuck you' to millions of people with student loans #and rolled back queer rights based on a literally MADE UP CASE #meanwhile one of the main candidates for the Republican presidential nomination is running on an openly homophobic platform #and the government still requires me to file taxes with them despite living and working in another country #to punish me for deigning to leave the 'greatest country on earth'

[imagineagreatadventure]

i can't even get angry about american zoooomers falling for bullshit bc we see it all the time with boomers and x and millennials and the common denominators are 1) american education 2) the human brain

so we can and possibly should give breaks to people falling for conmen up to a point

#when you find yourself breaking into the capitol on 1/6 then you have a problem and have crossed the point #but i suspect the lack of knowledge and the tendency to wanting to believe certain things over others is going to probably kill us soon #our big brains = our downfall in the end or something #the fact i had to explain to someone i work with that is younger than me and an educated progressive #that Dobbs wouldn't have happened if hillary clinton had won in 2016 #bc she would have been the one with at least 2 if not 3 or 4 supreme court nominations who would have been likely more progressive than her #is atrocious #civics - history - critical thinking - these important bits of knowledge and education and skills AREN'T being taught effectively #its why people are falling for youtube and tiktok hucksters #across the political and ideological spectrum #you are not immune to propaganda or con artists #no rb bc i refuse to break containment #i'm just tired #and i see too many bad takes #t

[filosofablogger]

Good Bye Mitch ... Hello WHO???

Yesterday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that he will be stepping down from his leadership position at the end of this year.  Note that he is not retiring from the Senate, only from his leadership role.  It is tempting, at first glance, to feel empathy for Mitch who has some obvious health problems as well as problems with his own cohorts in the Senate who seem to feel that…

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#2017 tax cuts for the wealthy #J.D. Vance #Mitch McConnell #Robert Reich #Russian election interference #U.S. Supreme Court nominations

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Lula Sets Record for Delay in Appointing Supreme Court Justice

Indecision Surpasses Previous Records, Becomes Longest of Lula's Three Terms

The uncertainty regarding who will occupy the Supreme Court (STF) seat formerly held by Rosa Weber reached 52 days on Monday (20), becoming the longest decision-making process for President Lula (PT) in his three terms. In the first half of the year, the Chief Executive took 51 days to announce his former lawyer, Cristiano Zanin. In his two previous terms, the decisions by the PT leader came an average of two weeks after the vacancy was opened. The longest delay was with Cármen Lúcia in 2006, taking 42 days.

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#brazil #brazilian politics #politics #supreme federal court #luiz inacio lula da silva #we're all skeletons waiting for the nomination #but i'm a skeleton with clown make-up wishing he'd nominate a black woman #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

[megaghananewsaid-blog]

Nana Addo Nominates 3 More Supreme Court Judges

To fill vacancies on the Supreme Court bench, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has nominated three Justices of the Court of Appeal. Among them are Justices Richard Agyei Frimpong, Yaw Asare Darko, and Henry Anthony Cofie. The President stated that the nomination came about as a result of the mandatory retirement of three Supreme Court Justices earlier this year. The appointment of the…

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#3 nominations to the supreme court #nana addo appoints supreme court judges #supreme court nominations by nana addo

[rpbp]

Gotta love it when folks cover the courts—and all the more when there's good news to highlight!

The confirmation of Nancy Ab[u]du to the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers the southeast and was drastically reshaped by Trump, made her the first Black woman confirmed to that appeals court. When Abudu, an alum of the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center who litigated key voting rights cases, secured Senate approval in mid-May, it was seen as the “tip of the spear” of the current wave, Zwarensteyn said. “It’s not just the question of the jurisdiction for a district court judge or the states that the circuit covers for a circuit court judge,” said Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, a counsel for the left-leaning court advocacy group Counsel at the Alliance for Justice. “But it’s the law that they’re making and how other courts may be influenced by it.”

#judiciary #judges #rpbp #law #scotus #justice #justices #supreme court #nominations #biden #confirmations #CA11 #Eleventh Circuit #Abudu #AFJ #LCCHR #SPLC #ACLU

[101now]

North-JerseyNews.com Roundup for May 16, 2023: Murphy Nominates Noriega to State Supreme Court

Gov. Phil Murphy has selected Michael Noriega as his next pick for the New Jersey Supreme Court, his fourth since 2020. Noriega is a former North Jersey public defender and immigration rights advocate who handled litigation for the American Civil Liberties Union and currently is a partner at Bramnick, Rodriguez, Grabas, Arnold & Mangan, the Scotch Plains law firm headed by State Sen. Jon Bramnick…

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#16 #2023: murphy #blog #court #for #may #nominates #noriega #north-jerseynews.com #roundup #state #supreme

[thenewdemocratus]

VOA News: Video: President Obama Nominates Judge Sonia Sotomayor to Supreme Court

This post was originally posted at FRS FreeStates on Blogger Justice David Souter was considered by then President George H.W. Bush to be the next conservative Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Ha!  He was the best mistake that President Bush could have made, in my opinion as a liberal, because he was the opposite of what President Bush had in mind when he appointed him to the bench.  President…

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#Barack Obama #Judge Sonia Sotomayor #President Barack Obama #President Obama Nominates Judge Sonia Sotomayor to Supreme Court #Sonia Sotomayor #United States Supreme Court

[fairuzfan]

Would you rather have a president that enables a genocide? Or would you rather have a president that vilifies immigrants, promotes facism, dismantles the rights of women and minorities, emboldens white nationalists, worsens the wage gap, defunds vital services, AND enables a genocide?

It's an unfair and unreasonable question to ask. I know. Unfortunately those are our choices for president. It sucks, but it's a 2 party system. And until any change is made where a 3rd party vote is no longer equivalent to not voting at all, it's better to just vote blue for the presidential election. Not because Democrats are the "lesser evil", but because NOT having a Republican president will prevent further suffering of Americans and will lessen the risks of minorities' rights being threatened and revoked.

The president chooses the members of the supreme court who hold lifelong positions and whose legal decisions have decades-long ramifications. Trump picked 3 of the 11 current members who currently hold a Republican majority. It was that supreme court that overturned Roe V Wade and that decision is harming thousands of people today in multiple states.

Biden already nominated one SCOTUS, and in his next term he could appoint 1-2 more Democratic members who would work to protect rather than erode American rights.

The Trump administration was lethal for thousands of Americans for a multitude of reasons, including his failure to properly respond to and then proceeded to politicize the COVID-19 pandemic.

As awful as it sounds, as hard as it is to believe in the moment, ESPECIALLY with the atrocities Biden is perpetuating in Palestine right now, don't believe for a moment that this genocide would be even slightly less cruel under Trump. The difference is Trump's cruelties would extend to Americans as well— especially immigrants.

The point I'm making is the only ethical choice for this election is to vote for Biden, but at the same time that vote is not the same as condoning his actions. Don't let voting be the end all for political action, and I hope you understand why this choice is necessary in an unfair voting system. Please participate in your local elections, Call your representatives. Continue demanding a permanent ceasefire and an end of Israel's occupation over Palestine. And please keep helping Palestinians.

I think it's quite wild to say people domestically haven't been dying under Biden. Hundreds of thousands disabled people have died during the Biden presidency due to covid. I myself only got covid because people around my family stopped masking. Even some of my family members stopped masking because of the CDC thing. There have been countless other things that I'm too tired to list as well that directly contributed to the death of people.

I'm sorry I don't know why you sent this I'm not going to change my mind. I'm not voting for the man that killed people I know and lied to our faces about it.

[tomorrowusa]

Nikki Haley believes that frozen embryos are babies. She said this in response to a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court which reads like it was written by a fundamentalist extremist.

Haley addressed the issue in a pair of TV interviews hours apart, days after Alabama's high court said that frozen embryos in test tubes should be considered children, rattling doctors and patients in reproductive medicine as well as raising legal questions. "Embryos, to me, are babies," Haley told NBC News. "When you talk about an embryo, you are talking about, to me, that's a life. And so I do see where that's coming from when they talk about that." Asked in a CNN interview later on Wednesday about the remarks, she said: "I didn't say that I agreed with the Alabama ruling."

The Alabama ruling has created turmoil in hospitals and clinics in the state offering in-vitro fertilization (IVF).

The ruling was greeted by widespread shock in Alabama, which has one of the nation's strictest abortion laws, according to news reports, with patients confused about whether to proceed with IVF and others wondering whether to move their embryos. The University of Alabama at Birmingham paused in-vitro fertilization after the state supreme court ruling, due to fear of prosecution and lawsuits, a hospital representative said.

Haley's comment is in the same category of silliness as Mitt Romney's 2011 comment that "corporations are people".

The Alabama decision is another demonstration of how Republicans are trying to crush reproductive freedom in the United States. And Haley demonstrated that just because she's running against Trump doesn't mean that she's a moderate on the issue.

The only way to protect reproductive freedom in the US is to vote Democratic for every office on the ballot. Republicans are pathologically obsessed with reproduction. They spent 49 years working to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Biden blasts Alabama Supreme Court's IVF ruling as Harris, campaign blame Trump

Keep Republicans away from your gonads. Register and vote.

I Will Vote

These people in Walker County helped elect the Alabama Supreme Court which consists of nine Republicans. They will never miss a chance to vote for wingnuts. If you skip an election or waste votes on third-party losers then people like these voters will elect MAGA Republicans in your absence.

#alabama #in-vitro fertilization #ivf #alabama supreme court #reproductive freedom #nikki haley #frozen embryos are babies #gop presidential nomination #roe v. wade #the sanctity of reproductive freedom #a woman's right to choose #donald trump #republicans will monitor your gonads #vote democratic to keep government out of your bedroom and out of your embryos #vote blue no matter who #election 2024

[robertreich]

Who’s to Blame for Out-Of-Control Corporate Power?    

One man is especially to blame for why corporate power is out of control. And I knew him! He was my professor, then my boss. His name… Robert Bork.

Robert Bork was a notorious conservative who believed the only legitimate purpose of antitrust — that is, anti-monopoly — law is to lower prices for consumers, no matter how big corporations get. His philosophy came to dominate the federal courts and conservative economics.

I met him in 1971, when I took his antitrust class at Yale Law School. He was a large, imposing man, with a red beard and a perpetual scowl. He seemed impatient and bored with me and my classmates, who included Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham, as we challenged him repeatedly on his antitrust views.

We argued with Bork that ever-expanding corporations had too much power. Not only could they undercut rivals with lower prices and suppress wages, but they were using their spoils to influence our politics with campaign contributions. Wasn’t this cause for greater antitrust enforcement?

He had a retort for everything. Undercutting rival businesses with lower prices was a good thing because consumers like lower prices. Suppressing wages didn’t matter because employees are always free to find better jobs. He argued that courts could not possibly measure political power, so why should that matter?

Even in my mid-20s, I knew this was hogwash.

But Bork’s ideology began to spread. A few years after I took his class, he wrote a book called The Antitrust Paradox summarizing his ideas. The book heavily influenced Ronald Reagan and later helped form a basic tenet of Reaganomics — the bogus theory that says government should get out of the way and allow corporations to do as they please, including growing as big and powerful as they want.

Despite our law school sparring, Bork later gave me a job in the Department of Justice when he was solicitor general for Gerald Ford. Even though we didn’t agree on much, I enjoyed his wry sense of humor. I respected his intellect. Hell, I even came to like him.

Once President Reagan appointed Bork as an appeals court judge, his rulings further dismantled antitrust. And while his later Supreme Court nomination failed, his influence over the courts continued to grow.  

Bork’s legacy is the enormous corporate power we see today, whether it’s Ticketmaster and Live Nation consolidating control over live performances, Kroger and Albertsons dominating the grocery market, or Amazon, Google, and Meta taking over the tech world.

It’s not just these high-profile companies either: in most industries, a handful of companies now control more of their markets than they did twenty years ago.

This corporate concentration costs the typical American household an estimated extra $5,000 per year. Companies have been able to jack up prices without losing customers to competitors because there is often no meaningful competition.

And huge corporations also have the power to suppress wages because workers have fewer employers from whom to get better jobs.

And how can we forget the massive flow of money these corporate giants are funneling into politics, rigging our democracy in their favor?

But the tide is beginning to turn under the Biden Administration. The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission are fighting the monopolization of America in court, and proposing new merger guidelines to protect consumers, workers, and society.

It’s the implementation of the view that I and my law school classmates argued for back in the 1970s — one that sees corporate concentration as a problem that outweighs any theoretical benefits Bork claimed might exist.

Robert Bork would likely regard the Biden administration’s antitrust efforts with the same disdain he had for my arguments in his class all those years ago. But instead of a few outspoken law students, Bork’s philosophy is now being challenged by the full force of the federal government.

The public is waking up to the outsized power corporations wield over our economy and democracy. It’s about time.

#youtube #corporations #power #Robert Bork #economy #history #video #videos

[wumblr]

Donald Trump’s attorney Wednesday tried to argue the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol didn’t constitute an insurrection because it was only three hours long, then quickly admitted his definition was made up, new courtroom footage shows. “It has to be for a substantial duration,” Gessler said. “Not three hours.” “Where is all that coming from?” a [Colorado] Supreme Court justice asked. “You’ve added a whole lot of conditions there.” To this, Gessler replied, "We're all sort of making it up at the end of the day."

ok i have a nomination for "worst self-own at the trump trials"

[batboyblog]

Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #10

March 15-22 2024

The EPA announced new emission standards with the goal of having more than half of new cars and light trucks sold in the US be low/zero emission by 2032. One of the most significant climate regulations in the nation’s history, it'll eliminate 7 billion tons of CO2 emissions over the next 30 years. It's part of President Biden's goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 on the road to eliminating them totally by 2050.

President Biden canceled nearly 6 Billion dollars in student loan debt. 78,000 borrowers who work in public sector jobs, teachers, nurses, social workers, firefighters etc will have their debt totally forgiven. An additional 380,000 public service workers will be informed that they qualify to have their loans forgiven over the next 2 years. The Biden Administration has now forgiven $143.6 Billion in student loan debt for 4 million Americans since the Supreme Court struck down the original student loan forgiveness plan last year.

Under Pressure from the administration and Democrats in Congress Drugmaker AstraZeneca caps the price of its inhalers at $35. AstraZeneca joins rival Boehringer Ingelheim in capping the price of inhalers at $35, the price the Biden Admin capped the price of insulin for seniors. The move comes as the Federal Trade Commission challenges AstraZeneca’s patents, and Senator Bernie Sanders in his role as Democratic chair of the Senate Health Committee investigates drug pricing.

The Department of Justice sued Apple for being an illegal monopoly in smartphones. The DoJ is joined by 16 state attorneys general. The DoJ accuses Apple of illegally stifling competition with how its apps work and seeking to undermining technologies that compete with its own apps.

The EPA passed a rule banning the final type of asbestos still used in the United States. The banning of chrysotile asbestos (known as white asbestos) marks the first time since 1989 the EPA taken action on asbestos, when it passed a partial ban. 40,000 deaths a year in the US are linked to asbestos

President Biden announced $8.5 billion to help build advanced computer chips in America. Currently America only manufactures 10% of the world's chips and none of the most advanced next generation of chips. The deal with Intel will open 4 factories across 4 states (Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon) and create 30,000 new jobs. The Administration hopes that by 2030 America will make 20% of the world's leading-edge chips.

President Biden signed an Executive Order prioritizing research into women's health. The order will direct $200 million into women's health across the government including comprehensive studies of menopause health by the Department of Defense and new outreach by the Indian Health Service to better meet the needs of American Indian and Alaska Native Women. This comes on top of $100 million secured by First Lady Jill Biden from ARPA-H.

Democratic Senators Bob Casey, Tammy Baldwin, Sherrod Brown, and Jacky Rosen (all up for re-election) along with Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Sheldon Whitehouse, introduced the "Shrinkflation Prevention Act" The Bill seeks to stop the practice of companies charging the same amount for products that have been subtly shrunk so consumers pay more for less.

The Department of Transportation will invest $45 million in projects that improve Bicyclist and Pedestrian Connectivity and Safety

The EPA will spend $77 Million to put 180 electric school buses onto the streets of New York City This is part of New York's goal to transition its whole school bus fleet to electric by 2035.

The Senate confirmed President Biden's nomination of Nicole Berner to the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Berner has served as the general counsel for America's largest union, SEIU, since 2017 and worked in their legal department since 2006. On behalf of SEIU she's worked on cases supporting the Affordable Care Act, DACA, and against the Defense of Marriage act and was part of the Fight for 15. Before working at SEIU she was a staff attorney at Planned Parenthood. Berner's name was listed by the liberal group Demand Justice as someone they'd like to see on the Supreme Court. Berner becomes one of just 5 LGBT federal appeals court judges, 3 appointed by Biden. The Senate also confirmed Edward Kiel and Eumi Lee to be district judges in New Jersey and Northern California respectively, bring the number of federal judges appointed by Biden to 188.

#Thanks Biden #Joe Biden #Democrats #politics #US politics #climate change #climate crisis #student loans #debt forgiveness #shrinkflation #women's health #drug prices