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here's a link to the ruling

artappraiser — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 06:25:13 +0000

In reply to OK, NOW THE REAL GAME IS ON:

here's a link to the ruling along with highlighted excerpt; it's quite fiery

NOW: A federal judge has blocked enforcement of SB 8, Texas's 6-week abortion ban, and denied Texas's request to pause his ruling pending appeal.

"...this Court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right."https://t.co/GCf6MrFB7C pic.twitter.com/hTb7bd1sIG
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) October 7, 2021

OK, NOW THE REAL GAME IS ON:

artappraiser — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 01:03:04 +0000

In reply to Supreme Court proxy docket

OK, NOW THE REAL GAME IS ON:

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Federal judge orders Texas to suspend the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which banned most abortions statewide.
— Julie Pace (@JuliePace) October 7, 2021

Maybe I'm wrong but I had an inkling the Supreme Court knew something like this was going to happen, i.e., waiting for something more substantive to come up the pike.

Alito (and others): It's not

artappraiser — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 02:27:58 +0000

In reply to Supreme Court proxy docket

Alito (and others): It's not over til it's over; y'all making incorrect simple-minded if not moronic presumptions about us and we're getting tired of that

SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito leapt into a political fray today, saying complaints about the court’s “shadow docket” are misplaced https://t.co/EfDLyb74aA
— POLITICO (@politico) September 30, 2021

Excerpts:

[....] In his address, Alito repeatedly railed against the media for propagating what he called “unfair and damaging attacks” on the court, but also accused “political figures” of doing the same.

“The media and political talk about the shadow docket is not serious criticism,” Alito insisted. At another point, he snarked at the press: “Journalists may think we can dash off an opinion the way they dash off articles.”[....]

Alito denounced what he called “false and inflammatory claims” that the court had overruled Roe v. Wade in its emergency order refusing to block the Texas abortion ban. “We did no such thing and we said that expressly,” the conservative justice declared.

Alito noted that the urgency in the Texas case came not from the justices, but from abortion providers who sought relief from the justices about 36 hours before the law was to kick in.[....]

ALSO:

Four justices -- Thomas, Breyer, Alito, and Barrett -- have all recently given speeches punching down at the journalists who cover them.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) September 30, 2021

interesting legal details:

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 01:45:24 +0000

In reply to Supreme Court proxy docket

interesting legal details:

Eleventh Circuit Chief Says Wait and See How SCOTUS Rules on Mississippi Abortion Ban https://t.co/U16S6ZrR5D
— Law.com (@lawdotcom) September 25, 2021

Doctor takes on TX abortion

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 18:00:02 +0000

In reply to Supremes rule 5-4 against

Doctor takes on TX abortion law

(hopefully he'll take a coat hanger to them - give them a taste of their own medicine?)

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_61466361e4b0e5dd4b27704c

Helpful to look at big

artappraiser — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 21:11:11 +0000

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Helpful to look at big picture history of the political and cultural divide on this, what it used to be and what it changed to.

Democrats, with their Catholic working class base, were the anti-abortion party, Republicans, with their NE Anglo-Protestant business elite base, the pro-abortion party. https://t.co/o3pLV2Qgkb
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 4, 2021

For many reasons but one of them is that the Supreme Court tends to look at big picture when approaching cases like this, too.

DOH!

artappraiser — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 18:35:52 +0000

In reply to noted on the screwiness of

DOH!

Later on Meet the Press, GOP strategist Brendan Buck also lambasted the "asinine" Texas law, which he argued could backfire on Republicans. "What stops a California from banning guns by saying you can sue anybody who owns one," he said. "There's nothing conservative about how this is set up."

from

Former GOP congresswoman calls Texas abortion ban a 'bad policy and a bad law' https://t.co/kl5IZ3iMUZ
— Heal the Planet (@fwtoney) September 5, 2021

shocked to hear about all

artappraiser — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 18:38:12 +0000

In reply to noted on the screwiness of

shocked to hear about all these kids dying, after all I have heard about the nascent "culture of life" that is being built by the leadership of the state I grew up in https://t.co/0qfzYkLJdq
— Christopher Federico (@ChrisPolPsych) September 4, 2021

Rideshare companies Lyft and

artappraiser — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 07:24:19 +0000

In reply to noted on the screwiness of

Rideshare companies Lyft and Uber both separately announced they will cover legal fees for any drivers who are sued under Texas’ new abortion law for transporting women to abortion clinics https://t.co/h3QI9AGlUx
— Forbes (@Forbes) September 3, 2021

Translation: don't even bother trying....

noted on the screwiness of

artappraiser — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 10:05:39 +0000

In reply to Supreme Court proxy docket

noted on the screwiness of the TX law itself and how it's not exactly traditionally conservative:

Offering citizens bounties to hunt down other citizens for “crimes” is pure evil. It is a form of illiberalism that’s truly poisonous.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) September 2, 2021

3 not-mutually-exclusive explanations for Republican silence rattling around in my head:

1. They wanted the issue, not the victory, and are sulking

2. They fear the radicalism and messiness of this law specifically

3. They plan to gaslight people that it didn’t happen at all https://t.co/PttRq3q8n1
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 2, 2021