"We may be wrong," Judge Jeffrey Sutton wrote for himself and Judge Amul Thapar. They are the only judges to rule that bans on gender-affirming care for minors are likely constitutional.
Lower court extremist judges have been emboldened by our unrestrained SCOTUS, Durbin's comical impotence as Judicdiary Chairman, and Biden's continued refusal to entertain chages to SCOTUS.
Biden has the bully pulpit...he has the opportunity to educate the public, and explain (or have surrogates explain) why changes to the Court are essential.
There are many steps that can be taken short of Court expansion.
Term limits are popular across Democrats, Independents, and Republicans. No explanation is needed, but the airwaves should be flooded with demands for this change. This would blunt the impact of dark money.
Narrowing the jurisdiction of the Court requires painstaking education, but again would blunt the imposition of unpopular minority religious and cultural standards on the majority of the populace.
Democrats need to lead on the Court. Since they are unable to do so, they need to be forced by their base.
Biden should certainly be using the bully pulpit. But he does so to great effect, as with the abortion/choice issue, so don't count that out just yet.
Term limits would require a constitutional amendment. Even if dark money were eliminated from politics, the GOP would unite against such a change, because that's why they picked young judges for Trump to appoint - to lock in their majority for a generation or more. As much as that SHOULD happen - I'm for the proposal where each presidential term would see two vacancies to fill - it's not going to happen.
Narrowing the court's jurisdiction is more do-able, if we take a majority back in the House and increase our Senate majority (neither of which is guaranteed). But all that means is, as soon as we use that tool, the GOP will use it excessively when they take control again. Any change we make to any law that provides a benefit to progressive issues, the GOP will almost certainly later exploit to its maximum.
They are wrong and they are bigots by their reasoning all ant abortion laws are valid because women’s rights didn’t exist when the constitution was written
“While calling the ruling “wrong on the facts and on the law,” Chase Strangio, who is one of the key ACLU lawyers on this and several other challenges to anti-transgender laws, added, “We also know that things are moving quickly and for many families, waiting for legal relief is not an option. The untenable position that adolescents, their caregivers and their doctors have been put in is not only illegal, but also deeply unethical and dangerous.”” So true.
This is horse manure. Grade-Z horse manure, at that.
Right-wingers think even late teens is too early for a person to understand anything about their bodies, but they see nothing wrong with arming 6-year old kids with assault rifles to go "deer hunting". Talk about deranged.
Ugh I am very wary of letting the current Supreme Court take up this case...
Lower court extremist judges have been emboldened by our unrestrained SCOTUS, Durbin's comical impotence as Judicdiary Chairman, and Biden's continued refusal to entertain chages to SCOTUS.
There isn’t anything Biden can do currently. I don’t know if committing to expanding the Court is a winning campaign theme or not.
Biden has the bully pulpit...he has the opportunity to educate the public, and explain (or have surrogates explain) why changes to the Court are essential.
There are many steps that can be taken short of Court expansion.
Term limits are popular across Democrats, Independents, and Republicans. No explanation is needed, but the airwaves should be flooded with demands for this change. This would blunt the impact of dark money.
Narrowing the jurisdiction of the Court requires painstaking education, but again would blunt the imposition of unpopular minority religious and cultural standards on the majority of the populace.
Democrats need to lead on the Court. Since they are unable to do so, they need to be forced by their base.
Biden should certainly be using the bully pulpit. But he does so to great effect, as with the abortion/choice issue, so don't count that out just yet.
Term limits would require a constitutional amendment. Even if dark money were eliminated from politics, the GOP would unite against such a change, because that's why they picked young judges for Trump to appoint - to lock in their majority for a generation or more. As much as that SHOULD happen - I'm for the proposal where each presidential term would see two vacancies to fill - it's not going to happen.
Narrowing the court's jurisdiction is more do-able, if we take a majority back in the House and increase our Senate majority (neither of which is guaranteed). But all that means is, as soon as we use that tool, the GOP will use it excessively when they take control again. Any change we make to any law that provides a benefit to progressive issues, the GOP will almost certainly later exploit to its maximum.
They are wrong and they are bigots by their reasoning all ant abortion laws are valid because women’s rights didn’t exist when the constitution was written
More cruelty from a Republican court.
Be bqq
What a mess! In the Constitution? Are they nuts?!
“While calling the ruling “wrong on the facts and on the law,” Chase Strangio, who is one of the key ACLU lawyers on this and several other challenges to anti-transgender laws, added, “We also know that things are moving quickly and for many families, waiting for legal relief is not an option. The untenable position that adolescents, their caregivers and their doctors have been put in is not only illegal, but also deeply unethical and dangerous.”” So true.
Circuit splits, speculate spectators: Sutton's speciality.
Did that calling out the libs give you a nice serotonin boost? All that righteous indignation feels good, doesn’t it?
Too bad it’s complete horsehit and there is no leftist push to have genital surgery performed on minors.
Such a shame. It’s so much fun to have a righteous cause.
Wait what happened to all the leftists pushing to get genital surgery for minors? Weren’t you able to find some?
[He's gone.]
This is horse manure. Grade-Z horse manure, at that.
Right-wingers think even late teens is too early for a person to understand anything about their bodies, but they see nothing wrong with arming 6-year old kids with assault rifles to go "deer hunting". Talk about deranged.