Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died this evening surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C., due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer. She was 87 years old.— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 18, 2020
Can't wait to see how quickly the Dems fold on the replacement
For electoral harm reduction purposes this is actually sucks tho... Thinking back to how stressed out and legitimately fearful my sister's American trans gf was over the supreme court's vote on transgender workplace discrimination, it just reminds how having another blatant fascist on the supreme court will have immediate and literally life-threatening consequences to vulnerable groups. Although my country is hardly better, America seriously fucking sucks. :amerikkka:
For electoral harm reduction purposes this is actually sucks tho... Thinking back to how stressed out and legitimately fearful my sister's American trans gf was over the supreme court's vote on transgender workplace discrimination, it just reminds how having another blatant fascist on the supreme court will have immediate and literally life-threatening consequences to vulnerable groups. Although my country is hardly better, America seriously fucking sucks. :amerikkka:
There was no harm reduction to be done.
A 5-4 decision is identical to a 6-3 one.
The court is lost without a packing scheme. That's been true for a while now.
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Yeah this is unfortunately true :amerikkka:
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I think the Obergefell decision is in serious jeopardy of being overturned now.
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We should get a pool going on which ghoul it's going to be first. My money's on a Cronenberg monster comprised of both Tom Cotton and Eric Trump.
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He has Barr looking into it as we speak.
if the only think protecting human rights was a bunch of 80 year old cancer patients maybe america deserves to fucking die (it does)
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Lol I really couldn't put it better myself