From TPM - This article was first published in 2015:
The future composition of the Supreme Court is the most important civil rights cause of our time. It is more important than racial justice, marriage equality, voting rights, money in politics, abortion rights, gun rights, or managing climate change. It matters more because the ability to move forward in these other civil rights struggles depends first and foremost upon control of the Court. And control for the next generation is about to be up for grabs, likely in the next presidential election, a point many on the right but few on the left seem to have recognized.
When the next President of the United States assumes office on January 20, 2017, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be nearly 84, Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy will be over 80, and Justice Stephen Breyer will be 78. Although many Justices have served on the Court into their 80s and beyond, the chances for all of these Justices remaining through the next 4 or 8 years of the 45th President are slim. Indeed, the next president will likely make multiple appointments to the Court.
Yes! My husband and I voted with pride for HRC. We live in Rochester, NY and visited the grave of Susan B. Anthony with thousands of others at Mt. Hope cemetery to place our "I voted" sticker on the headstone ( Frederick Douglass is also buried there). I never felt as proud as I did that day.
As a student of history I should not have been surprised at the results.
As Roe is overturned as well as Griswold, and every fucking law put into place to protect people from the overreach of government and corporations, ( except for their sperm covered 2A), this fucking country is doomed. Everyone is in danger except for white, male, property owning christo-fascists. As Heather Cox Richardson wrote, the south did indeed win the civil war.
I was impressed with the clarity of Julie Rickelman...Clarence Thomas came across like an out of touch oaf......I kept thinking about all those older Catholic gals who put Trump in just to do this!!!
The whole two-party system is a rigged game. Unless we are willing to fight, the zombie apocalypse party will keep taking things away from the poor and giving them to the rich.
Our current state of affairs demonstrates that the battle against evil is never over. Folks hoped that things would return to “normal” after tfg was voted out. They were WRONG! The crazies were just picking up steam. The haves are looking to get rid of the rule of law, so they can operate however they want to; makes me think of the movie “Roadhouse” or the spaghetti westerns.
Yes, TC, they did this. They would not listen to reason. That said there were powerful grievances held against the Clintons and their Neo-liberalism that many could not forgive. That and the fat thumb of the DNC pressed firmly on the scale. There were many to blame here!
Entirely right Stephen, but those 50,000 people in those three states were more significant than everyone else, because their total votes (Green or Bernie write-in) were more than Trump's margin of victory in those states. Had they not done that, he wouldn't have become president through the Electoral College. Despite every mistake the DNC and others made, HRC got more votes nationwide than Trump did; i.e., their mistakes were not fatal.
But the far left does this often. It was the German far left, the Communist Party, who campaigned in 1932 against the Social Democrat running to become Chancellor as a "social fascist" and claiming a Nazi victory would "speed the revolution" (I lost track of how many times I heard that from the morons here in 2016). We all know how that turned out, and now we all know how it worked out here - as there in 1933, it released all the demons from hell. The Far Left everywhere has a long history of making victories by the Far Right possible.
Having first lost their rights to their own bodies, then next to birth control, I wonder what the half of this nation that has enjoyed those rights for 50 years will do in 2022. Will they sit at home and bake cakes?
There are those, like my sister-in-law the "committed Catholic" who hasn't darkened the church door in 30 years, who will be happy with it (since the question of pregnancy is no longer anything for her to consider). Hopefully she is wildly outnumbered by those who worry about everyone having their rights.
From TPM - This article was first published in 2015:
The future composition of the Supreme Court is the most important civil rights cause of our time. It is more important than racial justice, marriage equality, voting rights, money in politics, abortion rights, gun rights, or managing climate change. It matters more because the ability to move forward in these other civil rights struggles depends first and foremost upon control of the Court. And control for the next generation is about to be up for grabs, likely in the next presidential election, a point many on the right but few on the left seem to have recognized.
When the next President of the United States assumes office on January 20, 2017, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be nearly 84, Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy will be over 80, and Justice Stephen Breyer will be 78. Although many Justices have served on the Court into their 80s and beyond, the chances for all of these Justices remaining through the next 4 or 8 years of the 45th President are slim. Indeed, the next president will likely make multiple appointments to the Court.
Yes! My husband and I voted with pride for HRC. We live in Rochester, NY and visited the grave of Susan B. Anthony with thousands of others at Mt. Hope cemetery to place our "I voted" sticker on the headstone ( Frederick Douglass is also buried there). I never felt as proud as I did that day.
As a student of history I should not have been surprised at the results.
As Roe is overturned as well as Griswold, and every fucking law put into place to protect people from the overreach of government and corporations, ( except for their sperm covered 2A), this fucking country is doomed. Everyone is in danger except for white, male, property owning christo-fascists. As Heather Cox Richardson wrote, the south did indeed win the civil war.
I was impressed with the clarity of Julie Rickelman...Clarence Thomas came across like an out of touch oaf......I kept thinking about all those older Catholic gals who put Trump in just to do this!!!
Like my wife's sister.
The whole two-party system is a rigged game. Unless we are willing to fight, the zombie apocalypse party will keep taking things away from the poor and giving them to the rich.
Our current state of affairs demonstrates that the battle against evil is never over. Folks hoped that things would return to “normal” after tfg was voted out. They were WRONG! The crazies were just picking up steam. The haves are looking to get rid of the rule of law, so they can operate however they want to; makes me think of the movie “Roadhouse” or the spaghetti westerns.
Yes, TC, they did this. They would not listen to reason. That said there were powerful grievances held against the Clintons and their Neo-liberalism that many could not forgive. That and the fat thumb of the DNC pressed firmly on the scale. There were many to blame here!
Entirely right Stephen, but those 50,000 people in those three states were more significant than everyone else, because their total votes (Green or Bernie write-in) were more than Trump's margin of victory in those states. Had they not done that, he wouldn't have become president through the Electoral College. Despite every mistake the DNC and others made, HRC got more votes nationwide than Trump did; i.e., their mistakes were not fatal.
But the far left does this often. It was the German far left, the Communist Party, who campaigned in 1932 against the Social Democrat running to become Chancellor as a "social fascist" and claiming a Nazi victory would "speed the revolution" (I lost track of how many times I heard that from the morons here in 2016). We all know how that turned out, and now we all know how it worked out here - as there in 1933, it released all the demons from hell. The Far Left everywhere has a long history of making victories by the Far Right possible.
Having first lost their rights to their own bodies, then next to birth control, I wonder what the half of this nation that has enjoyed those rights for 50 years will do in 2022. Will they sit at home and bake cakes?
There are those, like my sister-in-law the "committed Catholic" who hasn't darkened the church door in 30 years, who will be happy with it (since the question of pregnancy is no longer anything for her to consider). Hopefully she is wildly outnumbered by those who worry about everyone having their rights.
In peril, we are.