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Abortion LGBT Issues Supreme Court

Clarence Thomas Urges SCOTUS To Overturn Same-Sex Marriage And Contraception Rights Next

With the 6-3 ruling in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court has completely eliminated a right that women have had for five decades: The right to make her own reproductive and family planning decisions.

But in his concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas made it clear that this is only the beginning of what the right-wingers on the high court have planned for the United States in the future.

Specifically, Thomas wrote:

“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous’ … we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those precedents … After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.”

Yes, the Supreme Court is now coming for other rights, meaning that millions of same-sex couples will suddenly find that their marriages declared null and void.

Also, the right to contraception will be curtailed, especially in states ruled by Republicans. Both men and women will no longer able to purchase birth control pills or condoms. There will be an explosion of unwanted pregnancies and births in the United States, driving us ever closer to Third World status.

There is, however, a way to counter what the court has done today: Democrats, Independents, and Republicans who value the Constitution must vote in November so that legislation can be passed that will guarantee all of these rights and place them beyond the control of the extremist judges on the Supreme Court.

 

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Capitol Insurrection Congress Elections January 6 Supreme Court

January 6 Committee Focused On Ginni Thomas’ ‘Extensive’ Role In Attempted Election Coup: Report

The January 6 House Select Committee now believes that Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, played an “extensive” role in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and is now preparing to focus their attention on her, according to The Washington Post.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has obtained email correspondence between Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and lawyer John Eastman, who played a key role in efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, according to three people involved in the committee’s investigation.

The emails show that Thomas’s efforts to overturn the election were more extensive than previously known, two of the people said. The three declined to provide details and spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

The committee’s members and staffers are now discussing whether to spend time during their public hearings exploring Ginni Thomas’s role in the attempt to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election, the three people said. The Washington Post previously reported that the committee had not sought an interview with Thomas and was leaning against pursuing her cooperation with its investigation.

Justice Thomas, it should be noted, was the only member of the high court who voted to block the release of White House records to the House Select Committee, writing a dissent in which he sided with the Trump administration. Since then, there have been calls for him to recuse himself from any decisions regarding the election that come before the court. So far, he has refused to do so and Chief Justice John Roberts has not insisted on such a move.

The Jan. 6 panel will meet in public session again this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. ET and is expected to focus on the pressure applied to former Vice President Mike Pence by failed, one-term former President Donald Trump and other White House officials to delay certification of the 2020 electoral votes.

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GOP Supreme Court U.S. Senate

Ted Cruz Haughtily Declares ‘I’m Not A Moron’ And Then Proves Otherwise

Even though he’s an arrogant asshat of a human being, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) wants us all to know that he’s “not a moron.”

Speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill, Cruz insisted that the draft Supreme Court opinion reversing the Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania vs. Casey decisions was leaked by a liberal law clerk working for one of the three progressive justices, though he’s also said he suspects someone in the office of Justice Sonia Sotomayor without providing a shred of evidence to support such a serious accusation.

“They wanted to put heat and they wanted to invoke politics to try to get them to change their vote. And by the way, if that left-wing law clerk succeeds, it would be the most grotesque politicization of the Supreme Court in the history of our nation.”

During a appearance on Fox Business, Cruz laid out his unsubstantiated conspiracy theory, telling host Stuart Varney:

But, when he was confronted by reporters and asked to provide substantiation for his claims, Cruz turned into a snotty little douchebag.

A reporter asked the senator:

“Senator, why do you think you know this was a liberal clerk who leaked this? Do you have information that suggests that?”

Cruz huffily replied:

“Because I’m not a moron. Because I live on planet earth. Because this is obviously an attempt from someone who is unhappy about the direction the Court is going, to put political pressure on the Justices to change their outcome. That is the only reason this gets leaked, and you know that. Come on, you’re a reporter in Washington DC.”

That led the reporter to inquire about the possibility that a conservative might have leaked the opinion because “they supported the original [Roe] decision and want to lock them [the Justices] back in. That’s a completely reasonable scenario, isn’t it?” 

Cruz:

“You know what, I, I, I, find that ludicrous. But if it’s the case, maybe you’ll win a Pulitzer for that.”

The reporter countered:

“Well you’re saying you have no evidence.”

That led Cruz to retort:

“I think it’s obvious what’s going on here. And, and, and, we’ve all seen leaks often enough in this town, just not at the Supreme Court. This has never happened in any case ever, and it is truly horrifying.”

 

Actually, it has indeed happened in another case. Ironically, the 1973 Roe v. Wade opinion which gave women the right to make their own reproductive choices was also leaked.

If indeed it can be proven that a conservative leaked the draft, someone needs to play today’s video for Cruz and get his reaction. He might just cry.

Oh, and Ted Cruz is indeed a moron. His own words indict him on that count.

 

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GOP Social Media Supreme Court WTF?!

Boebert Gets Shredded On Twitter For Her Disgusting Conspiracy Theory About Ketanji Brown Jackson

If it wasn’t enough that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson had to face criticism from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week about the sentences she imposed on those convicted of possessing child pornography, now a woman whose husband allegedly flashed his penis at an underage girl is trying to suggest that Judge Jackson is part of a larger conspiracy inside the Democratic party.

On Friday, police in Maine arrested former independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler on child porn charges:

 Prominent Maine political figure Eliot Cutler was arrested Friday on child pornography charges. 

Cutler is facing four counts of possession of unlawful sexually explicit materials Class C, which means subjects are younger than 12-years-old, Matthew J. Foster, district attorney for Hancock and Washington counties, told NEWS CENTER Maine.

Even though Judge Jackson has absolutely no connection to Cutler, that didn’t stop Boebert from tweeting out this disgusting tidbit:

“A well known Democrat megadonor in Maine was arrested on… …You guessed it! Child pornography charges! The reason KJB was picked becomes more and more obvious as the days go on.”

As Jamelle Bouie noted in the New York Times, such specious allegations by Republicans are no accident:

 “The belief that Democrats are pedophiles — and that at its top levels the Democratic Party is an elaborate pedophilia ring — looms large in the QAnon conspiracy theory, which is something like orthodoxy for a substantial portion of the Republican base. In a poll taken just before the 2020 election, half of Donald Trump supporters agreed that ‘top Democrats are involved in elite child sex-trafficking rings.’ And in a poll taken last year by the Public Religion Research Institute, 15 percent of Americans say that ‘the levers of power are controlled by a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles.'”

Twitter wasted no time calling out Boebert for her bullshit and blatant hypocrisy:

https://twitter.com/Dr_Fate73/status/1507879247054057476?s=20&t=j4NTlXG9Dnun16Uwm22z8g
https://twitter.com/lindarchilders/status/1507873979591131136?s=20&t=j4NTlXG9Dnun16Uwm22z8g
https://twitter.com/Dr_Fate73/status/1507879505167331335?s=20&t=j4NTlXG9Dnun16Uwm22z8g

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Supreme Court U.S. Senate

Ted Cruz Gets Obliterated By Fellow GOP Senator For His ‘Jackassery’ At Confirmation Hearing

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) appeared to take a shot at his fellow GOP Senate colleague Ted Cruz (TX) during Wednesday’s confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has been nominated by President Joe Biden to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.

As he was questioning Judge Jackson, Sasse noted that he didn’t think it would be a good idea to have cameras in the high court:

“A huge part of why this institution doesn’t work well is because we have cameras everywhere. Cameras change human behavior. We know this. … There’s a whole bunch of things humans can do if they’re not immediately mindful of some distant camera audience that they might be trying to create a soundbite for.

“I think we should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities, and it is definitely a second and third and fourth order effect that the court should think through before it has advocates in there who are not only trying to persuade you nine justices, but also trying to get on cable that night or create a viral video.”

Though he didn’t call Cruz out by name, the Texas Republican immediately looked up from his cell phone and stared at Sasse, clearly thinking the jibe had been directed at him.

Sasse’s remarks set off a wave of speculation on Twitter, with overall agreement that the Nebraskan had taken a shot at Cruz.

https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1506718964495360002?s=20&t=tNNuVfI1l-r1q6XUrVpM5g

If indeed Sasse was aiming his comment at Cruz, he was merely speaking the truth. Ted Cruz has always been and will always will be one of the biggest jackasses on the face of the planet.