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You have a common misconception that seems to be rooted in the right. The Constitution does not tell people what their rights are. The Constitution tells the government what rights they may take from people. For example, Article 1 Section 8 tells us that the Constitution can tax the people to provide for an armed forces and for the general welfare; that takes away the right to not pay taxes. If the Constitution does not describe what rights may be taken away, then those rights revert to the states or the people. In this case, women had the inherent right to an abortion, just as they have an inherent right to marry someone who is not their race, or get cosmetic surgery, or sue someone, or become pilots. None of those rights are called out in the Constitution, nor do they need to be States may on occasion try to take those rights away, The Supreme Court's primary job is to protect those rights. We are now entering a phase where the Supreme Court will begin removing those rights for people in pursuit of the politiical ideology of their benefactors. They have already removed the protection on a women's right for bodily autonomy. They have signaled that they will try to do something similar with other currently-protected rights, like the right of women to get birth control, and the right of black students to go to the same schools as white students. Other republicans have signaled that the right to marry someone outside your race will be reconsidered as well - and given the political connection between the SC and the republicans, it's fair to say that that right is at risk as well. The US has had a long tradition of increasing rights for all. We ended slavery. We affirmed that women have the right to vote. We said that blacks to attend the same schools as whites. We guaranteed the right for blacks to marry whites, for gay people to marry each other, and indeed for gay people to exist at all. We have now reversed this trend. And if you think that they are going to stop at abortion - or that they will never get to a right that you value - you haven't been paying attention.

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Why do you believe them? Why do you trust that this panel of Justices, appointed on a promise to overturn Roe v Wade no matter what, accurately analysed and interpreted the Constitution when every other panel of Justices since 1973 says they are wrong? I'm not assuming they will, they already fucking have. It's not a hypothetical, it's already the fucking law. Denying that black and white fact isn't silly, it's dishonest and despicable.

Teletype log redactions were exclusions of non Flight 305 Northwest Airlines traffic.. The redactions were not hiding anything. In 1976, Flo believed she could not ID Cooper from photos.

You brought what actually to the conversation other than vague references to "some (people) are saying"? That's bringing nothing. And "it would have been nice if the SC had left it alone" is contextually a vacant statement. Jeez, Bill, the avoidance of upending, criminalizing, diminishing and destroying peoples futures while at the same time accepting that the decision will kill mothers isn't just nice. The decision is a horror show. And yes, it does make me angry.

I don't think the previous justices just pulled their opinions out their rear ends; they were also legal minds, with associates and clerks assisting them. Wendy P.

That is what the current SC said after several members were carefully selected and vetted by the Federalist Society to get that result. Until then the Constitution was judged by the SC to say that people had a right to privacy that precluded the government intervening. The SC has been broken and manipulated. Will the people stand for it? We will see in November.

I have them, and can also make you a pair! However, I HIGHLY recommend you get rid of the reversed 3 ring risers. Here's why! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9RHMQZTSGQ

Keeping away from Roe, both New York and Massachusetts (which I’m personally familiar with) had their long-standing (I believe on the order of 80-100 years) gun laws overturned. How is that not being activist and turning it back to the people ?who elected those administrations). Wendy P.

What is stupid is making health insurance a "perk" offered through the workplace, and sometimes only to management. In the civilized world health insurance is universal. One consequence of that is that businesses are not burdened with having to pay for insurance for any of their work force.

Barry. Even now you can't bring yourself to write President Obama or just Obama. Transparency is a difficult thing to see, it seems. There is no similarity. Republicans fought Obama every step of the way and gave Trump every unqualified, lying, hack (think the mask judge) he nominated all to achieve a judicial end not societal justice. Republicans aren't to blame for all of the ills of the country, that's just a deflection on your part. But we are blaming them for the wholesale destruction of individual rights, the misguided concentration of immeasurable wealth in the hands of a few while kids in barrios can't afford food for school lunch much less eye operations, for stupidly and carelessly steering our nation towards a theocratic autocracy and away from a democracy that from inception was fragile and always relied on the trust and fidelity of honest brokers. That we are claiming.

After the: -attempted Jan 6th insurrection spurred on by Trump and his lieutenants -the most criminal administration in US history -the most dishonest adminstration in US history -all the electoral fraud traced to prominent republicans -the republican's sheltering of accused pedophiles and rapists -the republican's support for pedophile pimps I'd say the opposite was true. And they haven't improved. Now they are burning books, cancelling Disney and trying to cancel history. Radical MAGA types are even going out and killing blacks in mass shootings to push their white-supremacist agenda. Keep in mind that even Trump himself said that if he lost to Joe Biden he should hang it up. He did indeed lose - which is a testament to how deplorable the republicans are. They're so bad that even Joe Biden looks significantly better.

Well, we have a constitution written by, for and on behalf of wealthy white landowners and slaveowners. We get the results you would expect.

You actually believe that bullshit, don't you? Not going to parse it completely, but to pretend that the Democrats are 'dirty, despicable and criminal' while the Republicans are the 'best political course' is just plain silly. And, of course, you believe that "SHTF" is just around the corner... Again.