Ginsburg Successor Could Shift Law on Abortion, Health-Care Act

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A conservative successor to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would move the U.S. Supreme Court closer to overturning the right to abortion, threaten the Affordable Care Act and, if confirmed quickly enough, strengthen President Donald Trump’s hand in legal disputes over the November election.

Ginsburg’s death Friday gives the president and his Republican allies an opening to leave a transformational mark on a court already shaped by two Trump appointments. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed Friday to bring a new Trump nominee up for a vote, even though the election is less than seven weeks away.

Ginsburg, 87, was one of the court’s most liberal members. Her departure could bring the biggest ideological shift for a Supreme Court seat since Justice Clarence Thomas replaced Justice Thurgood Marshall in 1991. With Trump eyeing potential nominees in their 40s or early 50s, the impact could last for decades.

“It would monumentally change the direction of the court and turn back the advances in women’s rights and civil rights that Justice Ginsburg devoted her entire career to,” said Leah Litman, a constitutional law professor at the University of Michigan. “It is impossible to overstate how significant this could be.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-19/ginsburg-successor-could-shift-law-on-abortion-health-care-act

But let's not be like the Republcians and stack the court /s

[Gothmog]

1. Hillary tried to warn us

Link to tweet

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[BigmanPigman]

2. The ACA being killed should scare everyone,

especially now during Covid. I have zero sympathy for anyone who gets Covid and has no health coverage if they voted GOP. They deserve it. The rest of us will suffer due to them.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Opponents of a woman's right to autonomy don't understand,

is that trying to outlaw abortion won't end abortions. It will simply drive them underground, make them less safe which means more women will be maimed or killed as a result.

Too bad that for every woman so maimed or killed, a man cannot be likewise maimed or killed.

Oh, and every time I see anything at all about a single mother, I wonder, Where the fuck is the father of those children?

I think there needs to be a tax on all persons of the male persuasion, one that is high enough to ensure that all children, especially those born out of wedlock or who wind up as children of divorce, have the kind of financial resources they deserve to have. Women have been paying this tax forever because of the abandonment of the fathers.