The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) unveiled a stamp Monday honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and former colleagues, family and friends gathered to celebrate the justice’…
I mean it would have been redundant up until the court decided that settled law didn’t actually matter. When they had a supermajority row vs wade was a constitutionally protected right, there was no reason to spend the political capital on “settled law”.
Then why did Dems promise year after year to codify it into law if it was settled? And why did numerous Dem legislators draft bills codifying it into law that got referred to committee where it was sent to die if it was settled?
Then why did Dems promise year after year to codify it into law if it was settled?
More than likely fund raising? Or it could be that pretty much every American politician is a professional liar who’s only real job is to lubricate the human crushing machine that is capitalism…
Well yeah, they’re ghouls… of course they’d rather spend their political capital protecting business interest than use it to protect women.
I wasn’t defending Congress in my statement about the redundancy of passing an actual law, I was just explaining their reasonings. Why pass a policy when it’s already “settled law”. If their opposition is obsessed enough to delegitimize the judicial concept of binding precedents…well we’ll just fund raise off that.
It’s kinda brilliant if you’re a conservative or liberal, you don’t even have to pretend to be progressive anymore. America is so shrouded in conservative ideology that “progressives” are now people who fight to reestablish the status quo of 10 years ago.
I mean it would have been redundant up until the court decided that settled law didn’t actually matter. When they had a supermajority row vs wade was a constitutionally protected right, there was no reason to spend the political capital on “settled law”.
Then why did Dems promise year after year to codify it into law if it was settled? And why did numerous Dem legislators draft bills codifying it into law that got referred to committee where it was sent to die if it was settled?
https://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/blog/obama-freedom-of-choice-act-not-highest-legislative-priority/
More than likely fund raising? Or it could be that pretty much every American politician is a professional liar who’s only real job is to lubricate the human crushing machine that is capitalism…
Idk, pick your poison.
Find raising was the sole reason they did nothing, they sold women out to raise money
Well yeah, they’re ghouls… of course they’d rather spend their political capital protecting business interest than use it to protect women.
I wasn’t defending Congress in my statement about the redundancy of passing an actual law, I was just explaining their reasonings. Why pass a policy when it’s already “settled law”. If their opposition is obsessed enough to delegitimize the judicial concept of binding precedents…well we’ll just fund raise off that.
It’s kinda brilliant if you’re a conservative or liberal, you don’t even have to pretend to be progressive anymore. America is so shrouded in conservative ideology that “progressives” are now people who fight to reestablish the status quo of 10 years ago.