From Reuters:So they're overturning Roe vs. Wade now? I mean is this really going to happen?
WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court looks set to vote to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a leaked initial draft majority opinion published by Politico on Monday.
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Reuters was not able to confirm the authenticity of the draft. The Supreme Court and the White House declined to comment.
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In a post on Twitter, Neal Katyal, a lawyer who regularly argues before the court, said if the report was accurate it would be "the first major leak from the Supreme Court ever."
Is that significant, though, given that Baptists (the more hardline ones, anyway) and Evangelicals tend to be as anti-abortion as the most zealous Catholics anyway?Not surprising. For some reason all five Republican appointees are Catholics (with Sotomayor the only Catholic Dem appointee) despite the country being only 20% Catholic (and that 20% being famously selective in which elements of doctrine they follow).
To be honest, I'm not quite sure how or why they've done it this way. The court-packing strategy has been in place for at least a decade and probably more, and each time they get a chance they put a conservative Catholic on the bench. Being lapsed in a family of deeply conservative Catholics, I could guess at an intellectual/textual inflexibility that aligns with originalist legal thinking and that might not be so prevalent in other strains of Christianity (which seem to have more of an emphasis on revelation and personal spirituality), but that's probably 99% my personal prejudice.Is that significant, though, given that Baptists (the more hardline ones, anyway) and Evangelicals tend to be as anti-abortion as the most zealous Catholics anyway?
Or is it about appealing to Hispanic voters, or what?
Edit: looks like it depends which Baptists you're talking about - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/06/21/where-major-religious-groups-stand-on-abortion/
Wonder if this will give the contrarian types who hate the Democrats some pause.
"Originalist" meaning obsessed with the Constitution, right?To be honest, I'm not quite sure how or why they've done it this way. The court-packing strategy has been in place for at least a decade and probably more, and each time they get a chance they put a conservative Catholic on the bench. Being lapsed in a family of deeply conservative Catholics, I could guess at an intellectual/textual inflexibility that aligns with originalist legal thinking and that might not be so prevalent in other strains of Christianity (which seem to have more of an emphasis on revelation and personal spirituality), but that's probably 99% my personal prejudice.
Specifically, trying to interpret it only in the sense that it was understood/intended at the time of writing. Which as intellectual frameworks go is pretty fucking idiotic for one of the three bodies charged with guiding a country into the future."Originalist" meaning obsessed with the Constitution, right?
Sounds a lot like how Salafists think about the Quran.Specifically, trying to interpret it only in the sense that it was understood/intended at the time of writing. Which as intellectual frameworks go is pretty fucking idiotic for one of the three bodies charged with guiding a country into the future.
he's also tremendously inappropriate to be a member of congress, a 25 year old who knows nothing -- nor cares -- about legislating. it's all just about being a MAGA world celebrity.
Thanks - I've popped back a few times over the past year, but not to post much. It was hearing about Mark Fisher that brought me back originally after a decade or so away. From mid-twenties precarity in London to early 40s relative comfort in Silicon Valley, Dissensus feels very different, though I'm glad it's still here (and that my log-in still worked after going unused for so long).btw, @mind_philip, welcome back. I always wonder why someone who joined dissensus almost 20 years ago decides to reemerge (unless of course maybe I haven't been reading the threads you been posting on for the last 20 years, in which case my bad).