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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/supreme-court-mississippi-abortion-ban/620833/Its leaders are proud to challenge Roe, he wrote, but choose not to lift a finger to address the tragedies lurking on the other side of the delivery room. I spoke with Reeves recently, and his opinions out of court are as candid as the ones he delivers from chambers and the bench. Judges are heroes, he told me. But for them I would not be in the position that I am or had the experiences that I did. They have the capacity to breathe life into our rights.
Under current law, Dobbs is an easy case. In Roe and, almost two decades later, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Court ruled that states cannot ban abortions before viability of the fetusabout 23 to 24 weeksmaking Mississippis 15-week cutoff clearly unconstitutional. Reeves ruled as much and then asked an obvious question: So, why are we here?
Rejecting sophistry from the states legislators that the ban wasnt really a ban, Reeves revealed the truth as he saw it: The state passed a law it knew was unconstitutional to endorse a decades-long campaign to ask the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. He then scolded the lawmakers for pretending to care about womens health and the well-being of the unborn and people of color while having the nations highest infant-mortality rate, tolerating alarming poverty and maternal-death rates, and curtailing health-care programs such as Medicaid. He accused legislators of perpetuating the old Mississippi, the one that didnt allow women to serve on juries until 1968, the one that systematically sterilized Black womengetting a Mississippi appendectomy, it was calledand the one that, in 1984, became the last state to guarantee women the right to vote. He recounted Mississippis long history of denying its citizens constitutional rights with segregated schools, prohibitions on same-sex marriage, and a secret intelligence arm that enforced racial discrimination. Far from helping women and minorities, Reeves wrote, the state still seemed bent on controlling them.
Judge Carlton W. Reeves
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,085 posts)brer cat
(24,401 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)Karadeniz
(22,270 posts)ancianita
(35,812 posts)That they would even entertain the specious pseudo legal/ pseudo religious arguments presented is ridiculous. This case should never have made it past Judge Reeves.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)70sEraVet
(3,430 posts)Just as soon as an opening gets created by proving that the last couple of Justices lied during their confirmation hearings.
To go after lying justices now would ruin any attempt at much needed judicial reform by Congress.
A good strategy is to a) keep both houses in 2022, b) fill out SCOTUS with the thirteen justices this nation needs (to properly represent its thirteen federal districts) and c) then go after them.
notinkansas
(1,095 posts)and eliminating or carving out exceptions to the filibuster and then modifying the procedure to return to a talking filibuster are the only tools we have to keep this experiment in democracy going.
usaf-vet
(6,094 posts)usaf-vet
(6,094 posts).... seat for years to come.
The repugs are appointing young judges to potentially hold the seats for 30 years.
We need to fight fire with fire.
USAF-Vet 65-69 Proud to have served before you 70sEraVet
crickets
(25,896 posts)SunImp
(2,221 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)ancianita
(35,812 posts)There will be less "investment" in female based infrastructure. The Manchin and Mississippi models will drag down the overall national public health. Making women pay more for basic services will also inure them to further pay inequity and the increased costs of impoverishment and criminalizing.
This ruling will be become the road to unfreedom.