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I will not stand by silently: Sotomayor blasts SCOTUS conservatives over their latest attack on abortion rights
By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
Published January 20, 2022
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The Court may look the other way, but I cannot.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed outrage at her conservative Supreme Court colleagues Thursday afternoon, after the six right wing jurists went one step further in attacking the constitutional guarantee of abortion.
Voting 6-3 against a womens health care provider the Court denied a request by Texas Womens Health, which provides abortion services, to change jurisdictions, which according to Justice Sotomayor the Court should have done.
https://www.rawstory.com/sonia-sotomayor-2656442619/
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Yandex
(273 posts)TxGuitar
(4,218 posts)Yes
sheshe2
(84,057 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)DLevine
(1,788 posts)Otherwise some might think it's intentional.
in2herbs
(2,947 posts)the answer, IMO, Biden better make haste with changes to the courts. Unfortunately, once the present make up of the USSC overturns Roe as a constitutional right it will be incredibly difficult, if not impossible for at least another decade to pass legislation that is even close to being what is afforded to women under Roe.
There are some on DU who have been against abolishing the filibuster and were pleased with the vote. However, how is Biden going to make judicial changes/additions without changing the filibuster rules? In the very least it will require a carve out of the filibuster, but to some, including some on DU, any kind of change to the filibuster is too risky.
FBaggins
(26,783 posts)Just by executive fiat?
Last nights vote makes clear that it cant happen.
Worth remembering that Manchin is anti-choice. An abortion decision like this isnt going to make a carve out more likely.