The right to eat dinner shall not be infringed!!

1. 2022-07-08 at 5:47 PM UTC

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   DrugSmuggler African Astronaut
   
   
   Brett Kavanaugh was then confirmed by 50 senators who represented just 44 percent of the American population. The 48 senators who voted "nay" represented tens of millions more citizens. Kavanaugh secured the crucial 50th vote of Senator Susan Collins based on her publicly stated belief that he considered Roe v. Wade to be "settled legal precedent." In the public hearings into the question of his confirmation, where he testified under oath.
   
   
   Kavanaugh said this:
   
   Senator, I said that it is settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court, entitled the respect under principles of stare decisis. And one of the important things to keep in mind about Roe v. Wade is that it has been reaffirmed many times over the past 45 years, as you know, and most prominently, most importantly, reaffirmed in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992.
   
   
   And as you well recall, senator, I know when that case came up, the Supreme Court did not just reaffirm it in passing. The court specifically went through all the factors of stare decisis in considering whether to overrule it, and the joint opinion of Justice Kennedy, Justice O’Connor and Justice Souter, at great length went through those factors.
2. 2022-07-08 at 5:48 PM UTC

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   DrugSmuggler African Astronaut
   And then, a couple of weeks ago, Kavanaugh voted with the five other Republicans on the Court to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
   
   If you have a problem with any of this—unelected judges selected by presidents who got fewer votes and confirmed by senators who represent a minority of citizens making policy without regard for legal precedent or their own previous statements under oath—you don't seem to have much recourse.…
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   • Bradley
3. 2022-07-08 at 5:49 PM UTC

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   DrugSmuggler African Astronaut
   The reason Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and others worked so hard to seize control of the judiciary was precisely because so many other institutions have ceased to function properly. Even if you do succeed in electing representatives to make policy through the legislature—after this same Court savaged the Voting Rights Act and unleashed an avalanche of money in our elections—the courts can throw out whatever they choose.
4. 2022-07-08 at 5:50 PM UTC

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   DrugSmuggler African Astronaut
   Do public figures who make the rules we all have to live by get to do whatever they want at all times without any social repercussions? Do they have some right to privacy in public spaces, despite choosing to wield huge power over others in a democratic republic?
5. 2022-07-08 at 5:51 PM UTC

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   Twinkie the kid Tuskegee Airman
   I'm sure complaining about it will help a lot
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6. 2022-07-08 at 5:54 PM UTC

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   DrugSmuggler African Astronaut
   On Wednesday night, D.C. protesters targeting the conservative Supreme Court justices who signed onto the Dobbs decision overturning the constitutional right to abortion got a tip that Justice BRETT KAVANAUGH was dining at Morton’s downtown D.C. location. Protesters soon showed up out front, called the manager to tell him to kick Kavanaugh out and later tweeted that the justice was forced to exit through the rear of the restaurant. 😪
   
   You cannot protest at the steps of the Supreme Court, as they've walled that shit off.
   
   You can't protest at the justices' houses, and there's some merit to the idea that private residences—where spouses and children are in the mix—should be off-limits.
   
   But you can't protest in neutral public venues, either, even if you're on a city street outside a restaurant.
   
   https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a40556040/brett-kavanaugh-protesters-dinner-steakhouse-supreme-court/
7. 2022-07-08 at 5:57 PM UTC

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   DrugSmuggler African Astronaut

   Originally posted by Twinkie the kid I'm sure complaining about it will help a lot

   
   Simply citing an article you Twinkie
   
   Perhaps if more people had the balls to actually step up we wouldn’t be sitting here watching SCOTUS impose their religious values on all us citizens
8. 2022-07-08 at 7:46 PM UTC

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   Bradley Black Hole
   so are you gonna do something or just whine on a forum with an audience of 15 members?
9. 2022-07-08 at 9:59 PM UTC

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   DrugSmuggler African Astronaut

   Originally posted by Bradley so are you gonna do something or just whine on a forum with an audience of 15 members?

   
   Probably just whine thanks 😑
10. 2022-07-08 at 11:12 PM UTC

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    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    complaining that the system gives states equal representation instead of quotas based on population while flooding their 'safe' states with legal and illegal immigrants
    
    SOMETHING J'EWISH IS GOING ON HERE
11. 2022-07-09 at 12:44 AM UTC

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    DrugSmuggler African Astronaut

    Originally posted by aldra complaining that the system gives states equal representation instead of quotas based on population while flooding their 'safe' states with legal and illegal immigrants
    
    SOMETHING J'EWISH IS GOING ON HERE

    
    
12. 2022-07-09 at 6:36 AM UTC

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    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition