Harold Meyerson at The American Prospect: In our time, there’s no such thing as an unequivocally good day at the Supreme Court. Even today, when the Supremes ruled unanimously that the law of the land still upheld the right to end an early unsought pregnancy through medication-induced abortion, the Court only tossed the challenge to the FDA’s pro-mifepristone rulings because the plaintiffs—a group of disgruntled Texas doctors—lacked standing to bring the case. But many of the states that have outlawed abortion since the Court struck down
The "doctors" who brought the Mefipristone case included at least one dentist, and around 3 or 4 doctors -- with no OBGYNs, to my recollection. What a pile of sh*t.
They could all have been podiatrists because their backers and instigators were just looking for people with MDs and DOs after their names to legitamize their case. Dr. J, Dr. Dre, Dr. Irwin Corey, Dr. Jekyll, any of them would have been added. The GOP is sneaky but not subtle.
Thanks for the nuance, TC. I understood that the Mifepristone decision is temporary; I hadn't considered it a positive for the Fascist Party. And as for workers' rights.... in my small world, Fairfax County VA teachers (I'm mom/MiL of three of them) combined representation and now have collective bargaining rights. WaPo: "School employees overwhelmingly voted in favor of collective bargaining on Monday 6/10/24, with the Fairfax Education Association and the Fairfax County Federation of Teachers coming together under an alliance group, the Fairfax Education Unions, that will represent more than 27,000 school system employees in labor talks."
TC, that NLRB case was 9-to-zero decision with Justice Jackson concurring in the Judgment ONLY.
Also, noteworthy is that the Opinion was written btyJustice Thomas who demonstrated once again that he cannot even write a unanimous Opinion without drawing at least 1 concurrence ONLY in the Judgment as happened in this case today.
The Mifepristone case wasn't a victory for pro-choice except accidentally. It was a chance for the justices that they really had not failed Civ Pro, where first years study standing. The whole thing read like a Wikipedia article on standing, only you didn't have to click on the footnotes. But now maybe they will actually have to stick to the rules about standing? Wouldn't it be embarrassing to have to ignore the precedent they themselves set?
Of course it was unanimous. The liberal court members couldn't disagree with something so basic. And the GOP gets to say "see, we care about women's rights" without having to give a shit about them.
And what about all the male hair loss and ED that are sent out through the mail? And those are not nearly as safe as mifepristone. Believe me, I understand why they're treated differently, with men largely in control of making laws.
I think the IVF issue is the one that will really tie the far-right up in knots. The MAGAP will not vote to affirm the rights to abortion (obviously), contraception (yep), same-sex marriage (horrors!), or IVF (all those embryonic children - destroyed!). But IVF is tripping them up, because lots of couples can't have children without IVF. Quite the conundrum... if they approve of IVF, they're approving of the destruction of fertilized eggs, OR creating an existential legal threat to IVF clinics, not to mention the cost of cold storage in perpetuity.
Let the MAGAP/Evangelical hand-wringing begin. Someone pass the popcorn?
The "doctors" who brought the Mefipristone case included at least one dentist, and around 3 or 4 doctors -- with no OBGYNs, to my recollection. What a pile of sh*t.
They could all have been podiatrists because their backers and instigators were just looking for people with MDs and DOs after their names to legitamize their case. Dr. J, Dr. Dre, Dr. Irwin Corey, Dr. Jekyll, any of them would have been added. The GOP is sneaky but not subtle.
I laughed out loud.
They don’t have to try hard anymore
Well, I'm glad mifeprisone won, BUT, I wish the justices would just rule that Medicine is NOT the purview of the Legal system
. . . and that women's rights are not negotiable.
Thanks for the nuance, TC. I understood that the Mifepristone decision is temporary; I hadn't considered it a positive for the Fascist Party. And as for workers' rights.... in my small world, Fairfax County VA teachers (I'm mom/MiL of three of them) combined representation and now have collective bargaining rights. WaPo: "School employees overwhelmingly voted in favor of collective bargaining on Monday 6/10/24, with the Fairfax Education Association and the Fairfax County Federation of Teachers coming together under an alliance group, the Fairfax Education Unions, that will represent more than 27,000 school system employees in labor talks."
Good news. That those two organizations put aside the differences that have existed since the AFT first organized back in the sixties, is good news.
TC, that NLRB case was 9-to-zero decision with Justice Jackson concurring in the Judgment ONLY.
Also, noteworthy is that the Opinion was written btyJustice Thomas who demonstrated once again that he cannot even write a unanimous Opinion without drawing at least 1 concurrence ONLY in the Judgment as happened in this case today.
Thanks for the additional info.
50% is all that can be expected because 2/3 of “justices” are in the pockets of robber barons.
Seth Abramson's opinion on why the mifepristone decision "...Means Less Than You Might Think" is especially well worth reading: https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/why-a-unanimous-supreme-court-decision?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=262336&post_id=145617239&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=3fufu&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
The Mifepristone case wasn't a victory for pro-choice except accidentally. It was a chance for the justices that they really had not failed Civ Pro, where first years study standing. The whole thing read like a Wikipedia article on standing, only you didn't have to click on the footnotes. But now maybe they will actually have to stick to the rules about standing? Wouldn't it be embarrassing to have to ignore the precedent they themselves set?
Of course it was unanimous. The liberal court members couldn't disagree with something so basic. And the GOP gets to say "see, we care about women's rights" without having to give a shit about them.
And what about all the male hair loss and ED that are sent out through the mail? And those are not nearly as safe as mifepristone. Believe me, I understand why they're treated differently, with men largely in control of making laws.
I think the IVF issue is the one that will really tie the far-right up in knots. The MAGAP will not vote to affirm the rights to abortion (obviously), contraception (yep), same-sex marriage (horrors!), or IVF (all those embryonic children - destroyed!). But IVF is tripping them up, because lots of couples can't have children without IVF. Quite the conundrum... if they approve of IVF, they're approving of the destruction of fertilized eggs, OR creating an existential legal threat to IVF clinics, not to mention the cost of cold storage in perpetuity.
Let the MAGAP/Evangelical hand-wringing begin. Someone pass the popcorn?