buddha

i know youre not being serious, but declining birth rates are a massive problem for almost every western country. its an even bigger problem in china.

theyre the dog that has caught the ambulance. now what do i do?

he must be banging jeannie again.

it could have been released by a conservative justices' clerk who heard that kavanaugh was backsliding and having second thoughts. nobody knows nothin.

if someone leaked it, its probably a clerk. why would roberts leak the memo and then call for an fbi investigation? that doesnt make any sense. never a dull moment nowadays.

do you think we need more people in america? the entire developed world is having a baby shortage. we'll either need more immigration or more kids. preferably both.

boom.

the us isnt producing enough children right now. an additional 750k per year would be welcome news to the future economy.

what about all the legislatures that enacted laws saying abortion will be legal? was that part of alito's master plan too? its almost as if they think the legislatures should legislate...

sending an issue back to the legislature is the opposite of "legislating from the bench." its saying theegislature can legislate. legislating from the bench would be them saying all abortions are now illegal and all abortion providers are going to prison, no matter what the legislature says. you can disagree with the brief all you want, but its not "legislating" from the bench.

i think that's an overreaction.

this isnt legislating from the bench, its sending the issue back to the legislatures where they said it belonged in the first place. this ia the opposite of legislating from the bench.

deflection from what? your insightful comment? lol. i was teasing you to make a joke. i didnt think they would overturn roe. i thought roberts would whittle away at it like he has at other laws and kavanaugh would go along with him. which could still happen, but doesnt seem likely.

nyah, you dont want those forums back up, then everyone would be able to see all your posts about how much you liked the teez tabor pick.

people love stare decisis when they liked the previous law and hate it when they dont. this thread is a few posts away from people claimaing alito wants to bring back slavery.

yes. has anyone said otherwise? but i'm a squish on abortion.

understood. i think any abortion after the first trimester is barbaric. but quite frankly, those are very very rare. i too would expect abortions in those circumstances to be due to medical necessity. at least i hope that would be the case.

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.