buddha

i didnt follow those hearings (because theyre all a joke and just a way for senators to preen like peacocks), so i dont know what they said. i would imagine they said stuff so banal and amorphous that it meant nothing, and that collins and murkowski were going to vote them in if the gop needed their votes, and would vote not to confirm them if the gop didnt need their votes.

what did brett and neil and amy exactly say in their confirmation hearings? if you want to question the legitimacy of the court, you can go back to bush v gore, i suppose. or dred scott. heck, everyone's least favorite president andrew jackson flat out ignored the court and dared them to stop him. blame that rascal john marshall! i dont think of overturning roe affects the court's legitimacy, i think mcconnell's actions in preventing garland from getting a hearing do. and - even moreso - i think trump's election and actions while in office degraded the presidency and his court appointments are tainted by his actions. but at the heart of it all is social media. everything is instantly politicized by grifters on all sides who use the medium for their own gain. that's always occurred with the media but is more consequential now that everyone is connected on the internet.

would you place any limits on when you can get an abortion?

alito's opinion distinguishes griswold et al from roe, but i realize that may not be any comfort. and, just a reminder, this is a draft brief from february which will be changed and may not end up being the opinion at all. if you recall, in 1992 kennedy changed his mind at the last second or else roe would have been overturned then. the "right to privacy" can be quite vague and hard to pin down.

how so? i think its more inflicted by mitch mcconnell.

but isnt that - and some of your other arguments on democracy - the argument to get rid of roe? and send it back to the states and the "people" to vote and decide? as an aside, i think the erosion in unity and acceptance of authority in american institutions is a huge issue brought on mostly by social media. turns out, its difficult to keep a nation of 350 million people together. a republic, if we can keep it. perhaps we cant?

or....the story wasnt true and they corrected it. sometimes there is no conspiracy theory.

i think they care about one a lot more than the other. i think the other is merely lip service.

father and mother should each have to spend an equal share to raise a child.

my company does the same crap. it's all about womens month, lbgtq month, black history months, and that we all need to be allies. and then they go and donate all their money to republican candidates and the republican party. total hypocrites with their fake pandering to make us all feel like they "care."

its 2022. everything is via zoom. ive never met my boss, yet we have plenty of comity.

the complaint was that sotomayor asked gorsuch to wear a mask and he refused so she did it via zoom. they both came out and said that's not true. that is the objective fact of the story. the rest is your projecting your dislike for gorsuch. 😉

you're going to end up with the big ten and the sec. everyone else will be in the minor leagues. michigan needs to get their act together and start using their huge money cannon and start buying some better players.

it would be hilarious if he ended up at eastern.

well, sonia and neil also said there wasnt...but you can believe nina if you want. 🙂

because there wasnt a masking issue last year?

i'm pretty sure that is taken out of context.

i dont know the answer but it sounds fishy to me.

probably.

susan collins is a republican politician and votes accordingly. when they need her vote, she will give it to them.

and when illinois passes a law that allows abortions at any time for any reason, i will feel the same way as you describe above.

what would the question be? if it gets banned by the legislature, they will probably say nothing. because that would be the democratic process in action.

science is going to change what we think about as life, that's for sure. if you create a human baby in a lab and its 6 months along, is it ok to kill it? all of these scenarios require some nuance.

isnt that what the court says in overturning roe? that these issues should be decided on a democratic basis by the electorate?