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.
Any group following the $$ that Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Alito and Roberts are raking in? We know about Thomas’ bribes… but what about the others? It is clear that Roberts is bent upon destroying the very democratic republic that benefited him… but I suspect any FBI agent worth their salt could tract the flow of money and gifts that are being gifted to the traitorous gang of 6.
Musk took heat for his role in destroying our federal civil service government by DOGE; but Roberts et al sculk away with no public outrage. No consequences. To my mind, they are worse than any of the tech- bro fascist wanna bes. Yes, they all are benefiting from destroying the very democracy that allowed them to flourish. But Roberts in particular rose with the democratic tide only to piss on it, now that he’s got his.
He hides his culpability behind shadow dockets while destroying people’s lives and our democracy.
"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.
It is wild to me how often you hear conservatives say that, regarding the various slaveholding namesakes of public institutions/subjects of hastily-constructed statues, we have to take the historical-moral context into account before criticizing slaveholders...but then turn around and treat the ideas - not even ideas, literally just the text partially articulating those ideas - of these same slaveholders as universal moral constants. We wouldn't need to judge the past by the present's moral standards if they'd just stop insisting that we judge the present by the standards of the past!
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!
Finally, this decision is shameful … its tortured logic and semantic gymnastics … no wonder this court prefers the opacity of the shadow docket.
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.
“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?
Any group following the $$ that Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Alito and Roberts are raking in? We know about Thomas’ bribes… but what about the others? It is clear that Roberts is bent upon destroying the very democratic republic that benefited him… but I suspect any FBI agent worth their salt could tract the flow of money and gifts that are being gifted to the traitorous gang of 6.
Musk took heat for his role in destroying our federal civil service government by DOGE; but Roberts et al sculk away with no public outrage. No consequences. To my mind, they are worse than any of the tech- bro fascist wanna bes. Yes, they all are benefiting from destroying the very democracy that allowed them to flourish. But Roberts in particular rose with the democratic tide only to piss on it, now that he’s got his.
He hides his culpability behind shadow dockets while destroying people’s lives and our democracy.
Come on financial sleuths/spies track the money.
"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.
It is wild to me how often you hear conservatives say that, regarding the various slaveholding namesakes of public institutions/subjects of hastily-constructed statues, we have to take the historical-moral context into account before criticizing slaveholders...but then turn around and treat the ideas - not even ideas, literally just the text partially articulating those ideas - of these same slaveholders as universal moral constants. We wouldn't need to judge the past by the present's moral standards if they'd just stop insisting that we judge the present by the standards of the past!
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.