Well done GOP
And it's unethical and immoral. Exactly like anyone who supports it.
It's what they want.
And it's unethical and immoral and legal, sort of.And it's unethical and immoral.
I'm too literal minded. I'd forgotten the ancient Latin legal maxim: qui tacet, consentire videtur:Obviously not holding any hearing cannot be either.
And it's unethical and immoral and legal, sort of.
I gather the reversal of Roe was 5:4.
a) Wouldn't the balance on the court be 5:4 w/ majority Democrats? Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY) refused to give Merrick Garland a nomination hearing. "Advise and consent" is the Constitutional wording. Obviously not holding any hearing cannot be either. Why has the DOJ not grabbed that one and ironed it?
[..] Scores of scholars — law professors, historians and political scientists — urged the Senate to at least have a process for Garland as a duly appointed nominee with impeccable qualifications. But some lawyers and academics pointed out that the Constitution empowered the Senate to "advise and consent" but did not require it do so. (Some adding that they thought the Senate still ought to do so.)
A federal lawsuit was filed to compel McConnell to hold a vote on Garland. It was thrown out because a judge said the plaintiff, as an ordinary voter, had no standing to sue. [..]
b) How many of those currently on SCOTUS swore under oath that Roe was settled law, and that they wouldn't overturn it? Doesn't their SCOTUS vote to overturn Roe constitute perjury? And if they're guilty of perjury, how can they retain their office in the highest court in the land? And if such perjury disqualifies them from the office, must it not also disqualify that ruling?
I genuinely don't understand it. These criminals have already made a mockery of law and governance, and now they're attempting to enshrine their "improvements" for perpetuity. U.S. patriots have more to fear from Republicans than they (we) do from al Qaida, ISIL, and Russia combined.
And with the Democrats standing there, silent witness to the nation being ransacked before their eyes, they need an idea.
Unless they resign or die, I believe so.Don't they have to go through a process of impeachment to be removed?
Another interesting question BR #8.Do they not possess judicial immunity otherwise?
Another excellent point.They aren't committing genocide and recruiting criminals to kill civilians in a country they are occupying, so I can't really agree, but they are nonetheless really, really bad - and many of them are making excuses for Putin.
I deduce you know more about the Speaker than I do.It's good to ritually humiliate men like McCarthy.
Not sure how well my personal outlook meshes w/ your #14 BR, but I'm OK with humanitarianism. That doesn't mean I'm against animals. Instead I suppose it's rather like utilitarianism, the greatest good for the greatest number. BUT !!I tend to think it's not about citizenship of anywhere but commonly shared values that transcend borders anywhere in the world, or almost anything else for that matter - when people pride themselves too much on their identity theycan start to develop a kind of collective narcissism.
“Patriotism is the belief your country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.” George Bernard Shaw
Shaw was a polemicist. I see both satire and ridicule in the quotation. But GBS is not a synonym for OED.Responding to a George Bernard Shaw quotation BR #16 posted:
"Well I don't believe my country is superior to all other countries because I was born into it. If that doesn't make me a patriot hten so be it ..."
It's the logical disjuncture we suffer when applying our own logical standards to the illogic we witness proliferating around us.Furthermore, even the worst congress critters like the Neo-Nazi holocaust denying dentist, Paul Gosar, is just advocating on behalf of his constituents and what they appear to want. Many of them appear to be more extreme than him. I don't know what to say to that or what to think about it either.
I recognize your Trump / MAGA allusion here. I've never thought much of "MAGA", it's a political slogan, hardly a lightning flash of incandescent ideological insight.It's sad because that energy could be better spent really making the country great again rather than tearing it to shreds.
t #18 !From the introductory post -
"OBGYNs in Louisiana are refusing to see patients before 12 weeks of pregnancy because miscarriages are very common during that period and doctors afraid of being investigated and prosecuted for abortion if a patient miscarries." introductory graphic
Human pregnancy begins with a single cell, and ends at birth. Pro-lifers seem to object to abortion the closer to birth the gestation has progressed. Doesn't this 12 week delay work directly against this pro-life interest? They're not making it better. They're making it worse.