In It to Win It
In It to Win It's JournalIf anything is a motivator to you, imagine Ron DeSantis picking your SCOTUS justices 😑
Imagine Ron DeSantis picking Clarence Thomas's and/or Sam Alito's replacements.
Imagine Ron DeSantis picking judges for the ENTIRE federal judiciary.
Imagine a Republican Congress expanding the entire federal judiciary while Ron DeSantis is President.
If you think Trump's appointees were bad, Ron DeSantis' will be worse. His favorite Justice is Clarence Thomas.
The current group of Republicans in Congress are the best group of Republicans that you're going to have for the rest of your life. It's only worse Republicans will come along after the current crop is gone.
Scary thought, isn't it?
I live in Florida. I am feeling, at this very moment, what it is like when this guy appoints judges to the court. The abortion law case will wind its way through the courts. It is unknown whether our fight will survive the in the long run. The state supreme court chose to uphold the most egregious partisan and VRA-violating gerrymandered map.
The United States has three branches of government, the Judiciary, which 🤣
@imillhiser
The United States has three branches of government, the Judiciary, which makes laws. The Executive, which sends a lawyer to the Supreme Court to argue in favor of laws. And the Senate, which blocks Democratic nominees to the judiciary.
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1542590711148724227
🚨 A new Supreme Court case is the biggest threat to US democracy since January 6
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1542520605416689668The Supreme Court’s announcement on Thursday that it will hear Moore v. Harper, a case that could concentrate an unprecedented amount of power in gerrymandered state legislatures, should alarm anyone who cares about democracy.
The case is perhaps the gravest threat to American democracy since the January 6 attack. It seeks to reinstate gerrymandered congressional maps that were struck down by North Carolina’s highest court because they “subordinated traditional neutral redistricting criteria in favor of extreme partisan advantage” for the Republican Party.
The plaintiffs argue that the state supreme court didn’t have the authority to strike down these maps, and rest their claim on legal arguments that would fundamentally alter how congressional and presidential elections are conducted.
Moore involves the “independent state legislature doctrine,” a theory that the Supreme Court has rejected many times over the course of more than a century — but that started to gain steam after Republican appointees gained a supermajority on the Supreme Court at the end of the Trump administration.
Under the strongest form of this doctrine, all state constitutional provisions that constrain state lawmakers’ ability to skew federal elections would cease to function. State courts would lose their power to strike down anti-democratic state laws, such as a gerrymander that violates the state constitution or a law that tosses out ballots for arbitrary reasons. And state governors, who ordinarily have the power to veto new state election laws, would lose that power.
As Justice Neil Gorsuch described this approach in a 2020 concurring opinion in a case concerning the deadline for casting mail-in ballots in Wisconsin, “the Constitution provides that state legislatures — not federal judges, not state judges, not state governors, not other state officials — bear primary responsibility for setting election rules.”
Ok Democratic Leaders in Congress, it's time to give the Party and the Country your marching orders
All of the Supreme Court's decisions are out.
1) They overturned Roe and Casey with the Dobbs case, dropping the issue of abortion rights into the hands of Commanders like Abbott and DeSantis, and the Aunts like Kristi Noem and Kay Ivey in the Gilead states.
2) They have limited the EPA's ability to regulate carbon emissions, tying President Biden's hands behind his back on tackling climate change.
3) They have aided in diluting everyone's voting power, which we haven't corrected for since Shelby County v. Holder, and they are assisting in gutting voting rights to this day by reversing the 5th circuit's surprisingly sane decision to block the racially gerrymandered Louisiana map. Additionally, they have closed the Court's doors on remedying the broader issue of extreme partisan gerrymandering, making it difficult for people to even vote in a Congress that would 'fix' the EPA and abortion rights in the first place.
To the elected Democratic Leaders (and yet-to-be-elected candidates as well):
The unfortunate part of being a Democrat is that we get the blame for everything. Doesn't matter what the issue is, we will get the blame. Democrats are attacking the oil industry, yet they are making more money than God. It sounds like we're actually helping them. Inflation is 100% on Democrats. "If those idiot Democrats didn't help lift children out of poverty with their stupid stimulus bill, we'd all be paying a lot less or gas and groceries." Overturning Roe is the Democrats' fault because they had plenty of opportunity to pass an abortion rights bill, and they didn't. THEY NEVER DO ANYTHING RIGHT!
It comes with the territory of being a Democrat. I understand.
However, the Supreme Court of the United States just handed you your midterm platform on a silver platter. They actually gave you a whole buffet but for simplicity, they gave you a platter of reproductive rights, climate change, and voting rights (again).
Leaders and candidates. Now is the time to tell the people what you need from them. They need your marching orders. They are looking to you for leadership on what you need to fix the mess we find ourselves in.
They will blame you for not passing a bill on abortion while your controlling Congress and the WH. Let the people know that you do not have the majority that is needed to pass an abortion rights bill. Let the people know that we have 50 senators, and 50 senators is not enough to pass an abortion rights bill. Tell the people that we have an abortion rights bill ready for a vote, but you need the people to give you 52 senators, 55 senators or 60 senators, or whatever the magic number is. Tell the people explicitly that we have a path forward for their reproductive freedom, bodily autonomy, and for their own self-determination. However, it requires that the people give us 'X' amount of senators and we need your help to do that. Tell the people to grab their family and friends and make sure they give us 'X' amount of senators. Tell the people in Ohio that Tim Ryan will give us that vote needed to pass an abortion rights bill; Cheri Beasley in NC; Val Demings in Florida; John Fetterman in Pennsylvania; and so on. These senators are crucial steps toward toward getting 'X' amount of senators so that we can protect your reproductive freedom. This plan requires voting in every single one of them. That is the path to passing our bill.
They will blame Democrats for not pushing for aggressive climate change action, and for not passing a voting rights bill. The people will say that "we gave you the power and you did nothing." Republicans will definitely bang that drum all day everyday. This is the time to tell people that we need a certain majority to pass these bills. 50 senators isn't not enough.
Tell them you can deliver.
Tell them bills are drafted and waiting for a vote.
Tell them how many votes you need.
Tell them what you need them to do to get those votes.
Tell the people the goal. No vagueness like "expand our majority." Give them the target. And let's get to work.
🚨 Florida judge blocks state's 15-week abortion law 🚨
Sun SentinelNo Paywall
But Leon Circuit Judge John Cooper said his ruling would go in force only after he issues a written order, which means the law could still take effect as scheduled on Friday.
Lawyers for the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, which sued to stop the law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis weeks ago, asked for the injunction. They argue it violates the state constitution’s broad right of privacy approved by voters in 1980. Several court cases have affirmed that it extends to a woman’s right to obtain an abortion.
FUCK! SCOTUS agreed to hear the NC redistricting case
https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1542520163194376194
🚨 Biden v Texas: Win for Biden, but also remanded back to the crackpot Trump judge
@LeahLitman
Second, and final decision: Biden v. Texas (Remain in Mexico). The Chief Justice (5-4) writes that the Biden admin made a new policy on Oct. 29 (contra the insane CA5 ruling to the contrary) & that rescinding remain in Mexico doesn't violate the INA.
https://supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21-954_7l48.pdf
That this decision was 5-4 is frankly astonishing and deeply disturbing. Justice Barrett being w/Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch on this Q about (Democratic) executive policies is alarming.
https://twitter.com/LeahLitman/status/1542511287531233284
https://twitter.com/LeahLitman/status/1542511498710265864
I'm on pins and needles waiting to see if the Supreme Court will declare
@imillhiser
I'm on pins and needles waiting to see if the Supreme Court will declare the executive branch of the United States government unconstitutional today.
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1542497187996762112
Chip makers are refusing to build new semiconductor plants in the U.S. unless Congress unlocks $52 b
Fortune via Yahoo News“This investment that they’re making is contingent upon Congress passing the CHIPS Act. The [GlobalWafers] CEO told me that herself, and they reiterated that today,” U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told CNBC, the same day GlobalWafers announced its development plan.
Congress actually passed the CHIPS Act, which proposed $52 billion in funding for local players to invest in the domestic chip industry, in January 2021 as part of that year’s National Defense Authorization Act—an annual bill designed to provide guidance on policies and funding for the year. But, over a year later, Congress has yet to formally allocate any budget to finance the bill.
“It has to be done before [Congress goes] to August recess. I don’t know how to say it any more plainly. [The GlobalWafers] deal…will go away, I think, if Congress doesn’t act,” Raimondo told CNBC.
The CHIPS Act is intended to shore up America’s flagging chip industry as a hedge against China’s accelerated development of its own semiconductor capabilities and shift global production away from China’s shores. The majority of global semiconductor manufacturing is consolidated in Taiwan, an independent island that Beijing claims sovereignty over.
Feds will work to supply Florida doctors with COVID-19 vaccines for infants, toddlers
Miami Herald via Yahoo NewsIn Miami to visit Borinquen Health Care Center, a federally funded clinic, Admiral Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said Tuesday that as of last week Florida medical providers had ordered 20,000 doses of the new vaccine for children younger than 5.
“We are working hard to get these doses to the state as quickly as possible because Florida families should not suffer because of statements and actions that are politically motivated by the governor,” Levine said.
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