Tag: Abortion rights
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Election 2022 post mortem
I went into the voting booth on Tuesday wondering if this was going to be the last free and fair election that I would ever participate in. It was a reasonable question given that our Supreme Court is taking up a case this year to decide if states can overrule voters in assigning their electoral…
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Republicans may be surprised by the 2022 midterms
There’s a problem when you are ruled by a minority. Unless they are careful in the exercise of their power, you can expect a boomerang effect. We saw it, or at least a “boom”, in Tuesday’s primary election in Kansas. It included a ballot question on whether to amend the state’s constitution to prohibit abortions.…
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A truly heinous Roe v. Wade decision looks likely
It hasn’t been looking good for Roe v. Wade for a long time. So the shocking leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito shouldn’t surprise us too much with its bottom line. The court looks likely to overturn 49 years of precedence in a 5-4 decision, a decision made possible in part by…
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Playing Dr. Larch
“Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should…
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The Justice Kennedy resignation and dialing it up to 11
The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, while not surprising, nonetheless has stirred up a hornet’s nest. Our only swing justice, it means that anyone Trump nominates is very likely to vote reliably conservative. Obviously this has huge implications, the most obvious of which is that Roe v. Wade is now under serious jeopardy. A 5-4…
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