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kp777 · 11 months
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filosofablogger · 4 months
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A Brief Update
Earlier today I wrote about Kate Cox and her struggle to obtain an abortion despite the fact that the fetus she carries is not viable and her very life is in danger.  I wrote that late last night, and when I woke this morning, it was to this headline in the New York Times … Texas Supreme Court Temporarily Halts Court-Approved Abortion   The court, responding to an appeal from Attorney General Ken…
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alwaysbewoke · 22 days
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hey y'all- i just wanted to remind everyone Friday Nov 25th is Native American Heritage Day in the united states, and that
**there is a case in the u.s. supreme court (brackeen-v-haaland) which directly affects the rights of native americans and their tribal sovereignty. **
The Indian Child Welfare Act pushes for Native children to be adopted by Native families. .... When it was passed in 1978, ICWA was landmark legislation, setting unprecedented protections to address the assimilationist policies that led to state child welfare and private adoption agencies systematically removing almost a third of all American Indian and Alaska Native children from their homes. (Yes, almost a third; you read that correctly.) Eighty-five percent of those children were placed in non-Indian homes. ICWA’s constitutionality is now being challenged in a lawsuit [Brackeen v. Haaland] brought by Texas, Indiana, Louisiana and various individual plaintiffs. It is the first time a state has sued the federal government over ICWA’s constitutionality. X
for more information and to learn what action you can take: https://linktr.ee/ProtectICWA
updates on the case: https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/brackeen-v-haaland/
november 2022
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newyorkthegoldenage · 8 months
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Attorney Samuel Leibowitz shows the Statue of Liberty to the four freed Scottsboro boys visiting New York from Alabama, July 26, 1937. Eugene Williams sits at left; the defendants clustered at right are Willie Roberson, Roy Wright, and Olen Montgomery.
In proceedings that lasted from 1933 to 1937 Liebowitz, serving without a fee, argued the case all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. It ruled that a Black person cannot be assured a fair trial in a community where they are systematically excluded from jury service. The Court ordered a retrial, with Black people included on the jury.
Charges (of raping two white women) were dropped against the men in the photo. The other five were convicted; three served prison sentences. The ones in prison all escaped, but two were caught, subsequently charged with other crimes, and convicted. The only one sentenced to death jumped parole and went into hiding for 30 years. He was found in 1976 and pardoned by Governor George Wallace.
Photo: Associated Press
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pythiaswine · 15 days
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"i dont want to vote trump or biden bc they both suck" VOTE THIRD PARTY THEN!! If we don't all do it, it reinforces the idea that our votes don't matter. if you vote for one over the other, they think they can get away w the two party system. if you don't vote at all, they won't even know the difference because they'll still have a winner and no third-party contenders. if you want the electoral college gone, VOTE THIRD PARTY! they won't listen until we make them. this is called political efficacy. stop believing it's hopeless bc that is how they have the power to keep making decisions that the people don't agree with.
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gwydionmisha · 10 months
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strawberrylemonz · 2 years
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My fellow US Citizens, especially in red states like me, please:
Delete your period tracker apps
Buy pregnancy tests using cash
Don’t use your rewards numbers at stores for pregnancy tests
Don’t look up how to get an abortion without using protected browsers/VPNs (DuckDuckGo)
Don’t look up where/which states give abortions
Don’t go to the doctors for pregnancy related things if you’re planning on an abortion. Don’t let them know you came back no longer pregnant
Don’t arrange abortion rides on apps like Facebook
And for those who wish to protest:
Wear a mask
Turn off your phone and leave it at home
Turn off/leave behind all GPS items
Don’t test your burner phone by calling your personal phone
Buy your burner phone in cash
Please feel free to add any more advice I may have missed. I hate that we need to keep fighting this war, but we cannot stop. We can’t rest until every person, regardless of their gender identity, sexual identity, reproductive system, or race is treated with the respect and protections they deserve
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hopeymchope · 2 years
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Yeah Republicans came up with this idea in response to the “stolen” election from 2020, You know — “The Big Lie” that has literally no evidence behind it and which ahs been laughed out of every court in the nation for not having a single basis in reality?
They claimed that this plan would help them “prevent another stolen election.” But of course, the election was never stolen. What they mean is that they will use this to prevent ever losing an election.
We already know that most of the conservative justices on the court have spoken or written in favor of ISLT. The only one who hasn’t already established her opinion of this on the record is Amy Coney Barrett, and she’s more than extreme enough for most people to assume she’s in favor. In other words: This is basically a done deal. The decision of the court is plainly obvious, and it will signal the end of America as a democracy forever.
...unless someone can do something to stop them/change the makeup of the court before the decision comes down, of course.
Biden either needs to pack the court ASAP, or make certain multiple sitting judges are prosecuted/impeached.
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deadpresidents · 10 months
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Every single MAGA supporting conservative appointed to the courts should star in my new theater play: "Thick Clots Sit In the Pillory and Are Pelted with Rancid Tomatoes". Admission is free.
Sounds great, but do you know what the really awful thing is? They'd still have the power to do exactly what they are currently doing to the country when it comes to abortion, LGBTQ+ issues, race, guns, voting rights, climate change, corporate regulation, economic inequality, immigration, education, the freedom of speech, expression and religion (or the freedom to not believe), and so on.
So, while the idea of throwing tomatoes sounds like a nice way to blow off some steam and win a minor skirmish, they are winning the war. Because ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES and the worst possible person won the wrong election at the scariest possible time. And it resulted in a federal judiciary dominated by very conservative judges who have their jobs as long as they live.
Seeing a free play is always nice, but make no mistake, a lot of us are probably going to be paying for this right-wing federal judiciary for the rest of our lives. I'd rather pay to watch something else.
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kp777 · 8 months
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Kagan enters fray over Congress’ power to police Supreme Court - POLITICO
"It just can’t be that the court is the only institution that somehow is not subject to checks and balances from anybody else. We’re not imperial,” Kagan told the audience of judges and lawyers attending the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference. “Can Congress do various things to regulate the Supreme Court? I think the answer is: yes.”
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captainpirateface · 3 months
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"GIMME! GIMMIE! GIMMIE! GIMMIE!"
U.S. Supreme Court Judge
Clarence Thomas
Fuck this guy hard. And not in a sexy way...
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filosofablogger · 9 months
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In The Words Of Justice Thurgood Marshall
On July 4th, 1992, just six months before his death, former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall spoke at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  His words on that day bear repeating today, 31 years later. “As I look around, I see not a Nation of unity but of division – Afro and White, indigenous and immigrant, rich and poor, educated and illiterate. Even many educated whites and…
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a u.s. supreme court case for 2023 may change the internet. legal eagle (above video) explains.
Gonzalez v. Google LLC is about whether youtube can be held liable for the content that its algorithm recommends to viewers. it involves a terrorist attack by isis and the fact that youtube was recommending isis videos to its users.
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A crowd in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, February 18, 1935, just after the U.S. Supreme Court announced its long-awaited gold clause decision. Stocks rose after announcement.
As part of the New Deal program to conserve gold reserves during the Depression, Congress in 1933 abrogated clauses in contracts stipulating payment in gold dollars as valued at the time a contract was made. That meant that such obligations could be paid in now-devalued currency. The Court sustained the power of Congress to regulate the monetary system. Enforcement of the gold clauses would have affected the depressed national economy badly.
Photo: JF for the Associated Press via NYPL
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thegayhimbo · 4 months
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CNN: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies
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