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Tumbulu

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Sun Jun 26, 2022, 10:19 PM Jun 2022

Reading through the Dobbs decision there are so many outrageous statements - but this one [View all]

Last edited Mon Jun 27, 2022, 03:52 PM - Edit history (1)

is what is striking me as the most the degrading line, at least tonight. Each time I read it I go more out of my mind. The lack of logic and the overflowing of stupidity just does not stop infuriating me. These are brain bound losers of the highest order.

From Justice Alito’s majority decision:

“These attempts to justify abortion through appeals to a broader right to autonomy and to define one’s “concept of existence” prove too much. Casey, 505 U. S., at 851. Those criteria, at a high level of generality, could license fundamental rights to illicit drug use, prostitution, and the like. See Compassion in Dying v. Washington, 85 F. 3d 1440, 1444 (CA9 1996) (O’Scannlain, J., dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc). None of these rights has any claim to being deeply rooted in history. Id., at 1440, 1445.”

Here is the link to the entire decision and the dissents. Which are elegant and intelligent.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf

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'Thanks,' bookmarked so I may actually read the piece of junk. elleng Jun 2022 #1
It is hard hard hard to read Tumbulu Jun 2022 #3
That's what I'm kind of afraid of, being outraged beyond consolation. elleng Jun 2022 #8
I hate every one of them and it is distracting me from my work Tumbulu Jun 2022 #11
I'm retired and have plenty of time, but I'm a lawyer, elleng Jun 2022 #14
Oh I loved the law, dreamed of going to law school after taking a constitutional law class Tumbulu Jun 2022 #15
WONDERFUL work you do! elleng Jun 2022 #16
Thank you elleng, that means a lot Tumbulu Jun 2022 #17
One expects justices of the highest court in the land... brush Jun 2022 #26
They don't want women to have self-determination. To have control over our own lives. Solly Mack Jun 2022 #2
And they think that our control of our bodies is up there Tumbulu Jun 2022 #4
Yes, I can. That's how they think. Solly Mack Jun 2022 #5
Yes, clearly it is. Tumbulu Jun 2022 #6
Agreed, so I don't know why Ofsamuel's vote counts! HariSeldon Jun 2022 #7
Indeed! Since we are back in 1868 Tumbulu Jun 2022 #9
OffHerRocker, I believe. Solly Mack Jun 2022 #27
What a tortured soul Alito must be to hate women so visceraly. Haggis 4 Breakfast Jun 2022 #10
Yes, and he is so brain bound! You cannot believe how badly this decision is written Tumbulu Jun 2022 #12
they don't care how idiotic they sound Skittles Jun 2022 #18
Tragically true Tumbulu Jun 2022 #23
TY. n/t EndlessWire Jun 2022 #13
Alito's misogyny is at a level of psychopathy. madaboutharry Jun 2022 #19
I agree wholeheartedly with your assessment Tumbulu Jun 2022 #20
What is the significance of Alitos' citation to the Compassion in Dying v. Washington case? Backseat Driver Jun 2022 #21
It seems to be in the first section where Tumbulu Jun 2022 #22
Kick Rec Bookmark. Thanks so much Hekate Jun 2022 #24
You are welcome, I wonder why nobody in the news media is Tumbulu Jun 2022 #25
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