The legal issue: A sharp dispute over the civil rights law that formed the basis for the group's lawsuit against South Carolina when the state barred it as a Medicaid provider.
Justice Jackson: Let no dicta go unchallenged. Thomas pulls this stuff often enough, in fact emboldening the ineffable Judge Aileen Cannon to dismiss the Mar-a-Lago docs indictment based upon Thomas' remarks in his concurring opinion in re: *tRump v United State* immunity case.
Justice Jackson is fighting the good fight, "collegiality" notwithstanding.
Justice Thomas confounds me. He seems to want a return to the segregated Fifties - save for illegal miscegenation - now that he himself has benefited from both affirmative action and DEI. I got it, you won’t.
KBJ rightly points out that the only thing Thomas finds relevant in the history of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 is that it, and the broader Reconstruction project, failed, miserably. Since it failed then it must continue to fail now, according to Thomas, intent be damned.
"Specifically, he added, 'the answer to that question turns on how ordinary readers would have understood the phrase ‘rights, privileges, or immunities’ in 1871.'"
Who fucking cares how anything would have been understood in 1871??? It's not fucking 1871!!! Maybe we should send this backward-gazing motherfucker to 1871 and see if he likes how things were understood back then.
Here in Ohio, I would expect to see the Ohio legislature attempt to eliminate Medicaid funding for abortion providers despite the abortions rights amendment voted on by Ohio citizens that is now part of the state Constitution. This will also play out in other states with abortion rights enshrined in their state Constitutions, but with Republican controlled state governments.
Justice Jackson: Let no dicta go unchallenged. Thomas pulls this stuff often enough, in fact emboldening the ineffable Judge Aileen Cannon to dismiss the Mar-a-Lago docs indictment based upon Thomas' remarks in his concurring opinion in re: *tRump v United State* immunity case.
Justice Jackson is fighting the good fight, "collegiality" notwithstanding.
Lance, I much appreciated your comment.
Collegiality? She should push him down the stairs.
And kick him when he lands at the bottom.
These idiots don’t realize PP provides medical care for men too. Not everything is about abortion.
I rather doubt they care.
Justice Thomas confounds me. He seems to want a return to the segregated Fifties - save for illegal miscegenation - now that he himself has benefited from both affirmative action and DEI. I got it, you won’t.
The leading DEI hire in the country.
I normally wouldn't want to pile on poor Thomas were it not so fun!
He deseves it. C rating from ABA, as I recall? Why the fuck didn’t Demz just say, “C rating. No. Next.”?
Absolutely!
He's consistent in his hypocrisy at least.
Ooh … gold star on his forehead!
KBJ rightly points out that the only thing Thomas finds relevant in the history of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 is that it, and the broader Reconstruction project, failed, miserably. Since it failed then it must continue to fail now, according to Thomas, intent be damned.
Gotta love Jackson schooling Brother Thomas on Reconstruction-era history. Justice Jackson if you're nasty.
Finally, this decision is shameful … its tortured logic and semantic gymnastics … no wonder this court prefers the opacity of the shadow docket.
“While Medicaid law allows people choose their own provider, it doesn’t make that a right enforceable in court, the justices found.”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-planned-parenthood-abortion-medicaid-e056395b9e5646d13539e76605027a1f
Let’s try this logic in other contexts.
“While the 2nd Amendment allows people the right to bear arms, it doesn’t make that a right enforceable in court…”
“While the law allows people to choose to attend (or not attend) the church of their choice, it doesn’t make that a right enforceable in court… “
“While the law allows people the right to speak in City Counsel meetings, it doesn’t make that a right enforceable in court…”
“While the law allows people the right to vote anonymously, that doesn’t make that a right enforceable in court…”
I can’t make this logic work anywhere. Can you?
Justice Jackson! What
an exemplary addition to
the "Thomas" court.
AFD … AfD … coincidence?
"Specifically, he added, 'the answer to that question turns on how ordinary readers would have understood the phrase ‘rights, privileges, or immunities’ in 1871.'"
Who fucking cares how anything would have been understood in 1871??? It's not fucking 1871!!! Maybe we should send this backward-gazing motherfucker to 1871 and see if he likes how things were understood back then.
Here in Ohio, I would expect to see the Ohio legislature attempt to eliminate Medicaid funding for abortion providers despite the abortions rights amendment voted on by Ohio citizens that is now part of the state Constitution. This will also play out in other states with abortion rights enshrined in their state Constitutions, but with Republican controlled state governments.
Chris, what is the matter with those six bozos? I had hopes for ACB, but she seems all too willing to run with the pack.