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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Sep 11, 2022, 09:12 PM Sep 2022

Opinion: These GOP justices don't want to hear what Michigan voters think about abortion

Republicans spent 50 years arguing that the fate of abortion should be up to Michigan voters.

Now they've decided that would be a terrible idea — especially in this critical election year.

But it's a little late to defuse the time bomb that began ticking more than two months ago, when conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices tossed the abortion question back to individual states. And unless pollsters are wrong, hundreds of thousands of Michigan voters are poised not only to restore the abortion rights the Roberts Court eviscerated, but to enhance them, sweeping away the restrictions and regulations Michigan's Republican legislators spent three decades erecting.

How could this happen? How has the reversal of Roe v. Wade — the prize abortion opponents began pursuing when Richard Nixon was president — turned into the GOP's biggest nightmare?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-gop-justices-dont-want-100413441.html

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Opinion: These GOP justices don't want to hear what Michigan voters think about abortion (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author drmeow Sep 2022 #1
Kansas scared them to death. That's what happens if you leave it up to the voters. MiniMe Sep 2022 #2
"How could this happen?" Because it was inevitable. Grins Sep 2022 #3

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Grins

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3. "How could this happen?" Because it was inevitable.
Mon Sep 12, 2022, 11:31 PM
Sep 2022

Been saying it for years: Let the Republicans get all they ask, turning the nation into their Reich-wing dystopia - and watch them get destroyed!

In Nov of 2016 I consoled myself over Hillary losing the election with one thought: Trump will manage to piss off so many people his re-election is doomed.

The 2018 mid-terms flipping the House added to that belief.

The VAST turnout of voters in 2020 wasn’t FOR Biden.
It was because so many came to HATE Trump!

Trump lost because he was Trump; a man defined by vengeance and cruelty.

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to
get it good and hard.”
- H. L. Mencken

Well they got it good and hard. And responded.
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