There is only one proper response to this travesty

[babylonsister]

There is only one proper response to this travesty
Published by digby on June 24, 2022
Vote out the right wing miscreants



We can’t do much about the Supreme radicals but we can stop the right wing from doing even more damage. This is on Mitch McConnell more than any other single person. When he refused to even hold a hearing for Merrick Garland, thus holding that seat open so the wingnuts anti-abortion zealots would even vote for the orange libertine, he sealed our fate. There would be no Gorsuch and Anthony Kennedy would not have retired if Hillary Clinton were president. (If he did, he would have been replaced by someone more liberal.) We would have a at least a 5-4 court to uphold Roe today if Mitch had not blown up all norms in service of his own power.

It’s vitally important that Democrats do everything they can to prevent these Republicans from winning majorities and the presidency. This court is going to do their worst but if the Democrats can control the other two branches there are ways they can mitigate some of the worst excesses on a national level. And they have to work hard in their states to deprive these anti-democratic far right Republicans of power to dominate from the minority. It’s a grave situation but it isn’t hopeless. But it’s going to require that everyone gets out of their funk from Trump and the pandemic and re-engage immediately. It’s a matter of survival.

Josh Marshall puts it this way:

As I wrote last month here and reiterated in this Times oped earlier this month, this is the one path to reviving Roe’s protections. Get 48 Senators on the record clearly and publicly promising to pass a Roe law in January 2023 and change the filibuster rules to make that possible. That puts abortion rights and Roe protections clearly on the ballot. It’s not a certain path by any means. But it is certainly the only path available right now.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. I think our predicament more dire

There is no settled law. The Constitution is what 6 Catholic Justices say it is. The Constitution has been overturned. It has been invalidated. I am just coming to this realization. Tell me I'm wrong.

[UniqueUserName]

2. I'm still holding out hope for November

The solution is to win in November and expand the court.

[2naSalit]

3. +1

Welcome to DU!

[UniqueUserName]

5. Thank you for the welcome!

I've actually been a member for quite a while. But I've had a lot of personal drama over the past 3 years.

But I am highly pissed over the Roe v Wade decision. I'm getting my introverted self active. I've contacted the local Democrats running to see if there's anything I can do. I don't think it will make a big difference in Alabama. But there's no point to giving up.

[2naSalit]

7. Well...

Welcome back, then!

I'm in a weird red, used to be purple (?), and am just horrified to the point I'm becoming a hermit.

[KentuckyWoman]

4. If all the escorts in DC went on strike ....

I'd put money on a gofundme for DC sex workers to suddenly go celibate until the Republicans find a way to make abortion federally protected. These god fearing patriot Republicans won't last a month without their secret dalliances. We'd have a solution that will hold up to even the whacks in Scotus. - and I am really not joking.

[EndlessWire]

6. When I posted

that women should close their legs in protest, DU trounced me for recommending denial of pleasure. P Power can be decisive, though.

[2naSalit]

8. Yup, take away that which...

Reinforces their sense of superiority as well as gives them a valued pleasure and they won't last long.

I'd donate.

[Stuart G]

9. November, November, November, November, November, November...There is an election in NOVEMBER!