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5/sixteen/2022

Non Such a Smooth Start for New White House Press Secretary

[guest post past JVW]

Hey, nosotros've all probably had a crude starting time twenty-four hour period on the task at some betoken, but this is non a promising offset for Karine Jean-Pierre:

She'due south going to either accept to piece of work harder to commit these canned answers to memory, or else she is going to take to read her prepared responses more slowly and carefully to avoid stumbling over and then many words. And of course nosotros won't fifty-fifty bother to say much about how empty and fatuous her respond is: more economic ignorance from Team Biden.

But, hey: she was able to promote her intersectionality bona fides — this sort of affair being just about the just Biden Assistants "achievement" to speak of thus far — so I gauge she'll have (most) of the White House Printing Corps eating out of her manus.

– JVW

Subsequently The Buffalo Set on, Information technology Takes A *Former* House GOP Leader To Demand Leaders Clean Their Own Foul House

[guest mail by Dana]

After the horrific attack in a predominantly Blackness neighborhood in Buffalo where a alone gunman opened burn in a grocery store and eleven of the xiii shot were Black, a manifesto alleged to be from the shooter revealed the mindset of hate backside the attack:

A 180-page manifesto allegedly fabricated by Gendron and circulated widely online seemingly outlines the gunman's racist, anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic beliefs. Among them was a desire to bulldoze all people not of European descent from the U.Due south., as well as a theory that minorities are replacing the U.Due south.'s white population. The document seemed to draw inspiration from the gunman who killed 51 people at ii mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.

Another certificate circulating online that appeared to have been written by Gendron sketched out a to-exercise list for the assault, including cleaning the gun and testing the livestream.

CNN besides notes that in their review of the certificate, the author "attributes the net for about of his beliefs and describes himself every bit a fascist, a White supremacist and an anti-Semite".

Attorney General Merrick Garland afterwards appear that the attack was existence investigated past the Justice Dept. "as a hate crime and an deed of racially-motivated violent extremism".

The New York Times links "replacement theory" to recent mass shootings involving victim minority groups:

Within a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a history of antisemitic cyberspace posts gunned down 11 worshipers, blaming Jews for assuasive immigrant "invaders" into the United States.

The side by side year, some other white man, angry over what he called "the Hispanic invasion of Texas," opened fire on shoppers at an El Paso Walmart, leaving 23 people dead, and after telling the constabulary he had sought to kill Mexicans.

[I]north Buffalo on Sat, a heavily armed white homo is defendant of killing 10 people after targeting a supermarket on the city's predominantly Blackness east side, writing in a lengthy screed posted online that the shoppers there came from a civilisation that sought to "ethnically replace my own people."

Three shootings, three different targets — but all linked by ane sprawling, always-mutating belief now commonly known as replacement theory. At the extremes of American life, replacement theory — the notion that Western elites, sometimes manipulated by Jews, want to "replace" and disempower white Americans — has become an engine of racist terror, helping inspire a wave of mass shootings in recent years and fueling the 2017 right-wing rally in Charlottesville, Va., that erupted in violence.

The report farther points out how the replacement theory has gone mainstream:

But replacement theory, once confined to the digital fever swamps of Reddit message boards and semi-obscure white nationalist sites, has gone mainstream. In sometimes more muted forms, the fear information technology crystallizes — of a future America in which white people are no longer the numerical bulk — has become a potent force in conservative media and politics, where the theory has been borrowed and remixed to attract audiences, retweets and small-dollar donations.

I don't know the exact number of Republicans who cover the replacement theory or some form of it, only at that place is a tape of those who have espoused the same or very similar views. Anyway, in what has become standard do, it takes a old GOP House leader to have her party to chore and demand the House make clean business firm:

Rep. Adam Kinzinger also pointed out the ongoing problem within the Republican Party:

The replacement theory in the MAGA faction of the Republican Party is not just bars to elected officials, but it is also being pushed past popular pundits with enormous audiences, such as Tucker Carlson. The New York Times documented 400 times that Carlson "has amplified the notion that Democratic politicians and other assorted elites want to force demographic change through immigration". Here is a short compilation of his comments:

Now, I know that the left and all the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term replacement – if you advise the Autonomous Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the third globe. Only they become hysterical because that's what's happening, really. Let's merely say it. That's true.

Anyhow, I'll get out yous with Mitt Romney'south spot-on ascertainment following the attack in Buffalo:

The GOP needs to clean out the rot and needs to practise better. However, given that it remains (at least for the time being) Trump's party, I'1000 not holding my breath.

–Dana

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5/13/2022

Weekend Open Thread

[guest post by Dana]

Allow'south go!

Showtime news detail

Behind the baby formula shortage:

The electric current state of affairs with babe formula, on the other hand, actually does seem quite serious. In detail, a February/March 2022 FDA recall of Abbott Diet formula products made at a problematic Michigan facility has pushed an already-stressed U.S. market into full-on panic style. Not but are supplies badly short in numerous states, but prices have (as they do when supplies are low) spiked, leaving families—peculiarly ones with low incomes or babies that demand special products—in desperate shape.

Unfortunately, the infant formula crisis isn't simply another case of a one-off event causing pandemic-related supply concatenation pressures to eddy over. Instead, U.Due south. policy has exacerbated the nation's infant formula problem by depressing potential supply. First, as my Cato colleague Gabby Beaumont-Smith just documented, the United States maintains high tariff barriers to imports of formula from other nations—all role of our government's longstanding subsidization and protection of the politically powerful U.S. dairy manufacture. Imports of formula from near places, such as the European Wedlock, are subject to a complex organisation of "tariff rate quotas," under which already-high tariffs (usually 17.5 percentage, but it depends on the product) increase even further once a certain quantity threshold is hit.

We fifty-fifty restrict imports of formula from most "costless trade" (scare quotes intended!) agreement partners, including major dairy producing nations similar Canada. In fact, a key provision of the renegotiated NAFTA—the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)—actually tightened restrictions on Canadian babe formula to ensure that new investments in Ontario production capacity by Chinese company Feihe would never threaten the U.Due south. market:

Also, this past Elizabeth Nolan Brown is an center-opening must-read too.

Second news detail

Russia now threatens to retaliate if Finland joins NATO:

Russia has said it will be forced to take "retaliatory steps" over its neighbour Finland's move to join Nato.

A strange ministry statement said the move would seriously damage bilateral relations, as well equally security and stability in northern Europe.

Earlier, Republic of finland's president and PM called for the country to apply for Nato membership "without delay".

Russia had previously warned both Sweden and Finland if they joined NATO. Both countries are expected to denote their decisions regarding Nato this weekend. Turkey'south Erdogan doesn't support either country joining NATO.

Third news item

Pence continues to cutting the cord with Trump:

Former Vice President Mike Pence will headline a get-out-the-vote rally with Gov. Brian Kemp on the eve of Georgia's May 24 chief, marking a new split with Donald Trump as each maneuver for a possible 2024 White House run.

Pence called Kemp "one of the most successful conservative governors in America" in a statement announcing the May 23 rally to help the incumbent stave off a Trump-backed claiming from erstwhile U.S. Sen. David Perdue…

The quondam vice president's visit is role of Kemp'south accept-no-prisoners arroyo to the primary. The governor's directorate don't want to simply defeat Perdue and avoid an unpredictable June runoff; they want to rout him.

Fourth news detail

Yep, we all knew "safe, legal, and rare" was meaningless manipulation:

Fifth news item

Nevertheless more claret on Putin'southward hands:

More 1,000 bodies of civilians have been recovered in areas around Kyiv that were previously occupied by Russian forces, Un human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said Thursday.

What they're proverb: "Some of these people were killed in hostilities, others appear to have been summarily executed," Bachelet added while speaking before a session of the UN Human being Rights Council. "Others withal have died because of stress to their health caused by hostilities and the lack of medical aid."

The scale of unlawful killings, including summary executions, has been "shocking," she said.

Additionally:

U.k.'s ambassador to the United Nations said Th that there were "credible" claims Russian forces accept committed sexual violence against children in Ukraine, as U.N. agencies said Vladimir Putin'southward invasion had driven more than half dozen million people to flee the land. The U.N. refugee agency reported the grim statistic, which, combined with the roughly eight million Ukrainians who accept been displaced within their country, means a third of Ukraine'southward people take been forced from their homes.

…

British Administrator Barbara Woodward, citing the U.N. humanitarian agency, said at least 238 children were believed to exist among the thousands of civilians killed since Russian federation launched its war, with 347 more than injured.

Sixth news item

But of form they tin't agree:

Lawmakers in both parties agree on the need to boost security protections for Supreme Court justices…Merely there's an intensifying debate between the House and Senate over simply how to become there.

…Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is blasting the House for pursuing legislation that would extend protections to the families of both justices and judicial clerks. He prefers his Senate's bipartisan version, which passed unanimously on Monday, that only focuses on expanding security to the immediate families of justices…

Side note: A 2019 police force had already authorized protections for judicial clerks, co-ordinate to [Rep. Greg] Stanton's office.

…House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer voiced back up for the Stanton bill, arguing "we believe that it is disquisitional to safeguard the families of those who choose to serve their country and their communities equally judicial clerks and staff as well." He said House Democrats would go on negotiating with Republicans on the legislation.

7th news particular

Lousiana:

A Republican lawmaker in Louisiana on Thursday pulled a pecker that would have allowed prosecutors to accuse a person with homicide if they get an ballgame — finer catastrophe the chance information technology would become law this legislative session.

8th news item

Toad venom, you say? Well, okay and so:

Alexander Subbotin is at to the lowest degree the 7th Russian oligarch to dice under foreign circumstances this year.

Subbotin, the billionaire former top manager of Russian oil producer Lukoil, was plant dead on Lord's day in a shaman's home in Mytishchi, a city just northeast of Moscow, Russian news bureau TASS reported.

The billionaire's death is the latest in a grim trend of Russian businessmen being constitute dead in unusual circumstances amid Russian federation's ongoing assault on neighboring Ukraine.

Neb Browder, a financier who was once the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia, previously told Newsweek that people should assume the worst "whatsoever time y'all see a wealthy Russian dying in suspicious circumstances."

He added: "There has been plenty empirical evidence of assassinations organized by the Kremlin or business organisation rivals in Russia, to make it likely that these were murders and not suicides and other explanations that accept been bandied about by the Russian government."

Good and necessary:

In an unprecedented move, the Firm select commission on the Jan. 6 assail on the Capitol has issued subpoenas for 5 Business firm Republicans, including GOP leader Kevin McCarthy.

All five had previously been asked to appear voluntarily and quickly refused. Now, their testimony is being compelled past calendar month's stop, a motility nearly of them chop-chop slammed on Th.

In addition to McCarthy, the panel also subpoenaed GOP Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Mo Brooks of Alabama.

None have said even so if they'll comply with the subpoenas.

Ninth news item

Oof:

President Biden'south approval rating remains underwater and more than than fourscore% of registered voters say the U.Southward. is on the wrong runway, according to a Th poll from Monmouth Academy.

The Thursday poll found that Biden's approval rating is sitting at 38%, with 57% disapproval. Those numbers are down from March when Biden had a 39% approval and 54% disapproval. Monmouth also found that just 18% of Americans say the country is on the right rails.

Biden'southward White House making simulated claims like this doesn't help the state of affairs:

After all, the guy in charge already told u.s. he had taken the vaccine before he took part:

MISCELLANEOUS

Have a great weekend!

–Dana

As Alito Addresses the Home Protests (But Not Really), Governors Ask DoJ to Do Something About Them

Justice Alito spoke to an audience remotely from the Supreme Court and was asked, basically, and then how y'all doin'?

"I think information technology would but exist actually helpful for all of united states of america to hear, personally, are you all doing okay in these very challenging times?" the questioner asked.

. . . .

"This is a field of study I told myself I wasn't going to talk about today regarding, you lot know — given all the circumstances," Alito replied.

After a pause, he added: "The court right now, we had our conference this morning, we're doing our work. We're taking new cases, we're headed toward the end of the term, which is ever a frenetic time as we go our opinions out."

The court gathered Th for the showtime time since the draft opinion was disclosed to Politico and the court'southward chief justice, John G. Roberts Jr., opened a leak investigation.

After detailing the schedule for getting the court'south work done past the end of June or early July, Alito skipped the usual boilerplate that justices tend to utilise almost disagreeing about the law merely remaining respectful and friendly.

Instead, he concluded: "And so that's where we are."

The assumption in the Court has always been, I assume, that Dobbs will exist the last opinion issued on the last twenty-four hour period of the Courtroom'southward operations this year, likely at the terminate of June (perhaps at the outset of July). I incertitude they're going to rush it out, giving the dissent a gamble to say that its arguments weren't even considered.

This creates a fraught time in the interim. Glenn Youngkin and Larry Hogan accept both asked the Justice Department to enforce a police force that prevents people from picketing outside the justices' homes:

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin revealed on "Your Earth" Wednesday that he and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan sent a letter of the alphabet to Attorney General Merrick Garland urging him to prosecute those demonstrating exterior the homes of Supreme Courtroom justices over an predictable ruling that could overturn Roe five. Wade.

Co-ordinate to a copy of the letter obtained by Play tricks News, Youngkin and Hogan chosen on Garland to "provide appropriate resources to safeguard the justices and enforce the police as it is written." Both Republican governors offered their respective states' assistance to secure the justices' homes, but said they need Garland and the Department of Justice to "to take the lead."

"At that place is simply too much at pale," the final line of the 2-folio letter reads.

In that location sure is. I remain very worried nearly the volatile situation these home protests are causing, and the potential for deadly violence. The Justice Department needs to act.

5/12/2022

Biden's Disinformation Director: Hey, Verified Twitter Users Should Edit Other People's Tweets!

[guest post by Dana]

Because that blue check indiciates trustworthiness, cognition, and expertise or something:

Nina Jankowicz — whose appointment as director of the new Disinformation Governance Board in the Department of Homeland Security has stoked concerns about government censorship — told participants in a recent Zoom chat that she is "verified" by Twitter earlier calculation that "in that location are a lot of people who shouldn't be verified, who aren't legit" because "they're non trustworthy."

She then adds: "Verified people can essentially first to 'edit' Twitter [in] the aforementioned sort of way that Wikipedia is so they can add together context to certain tweets."

Jankowicz then offered upward a hypothetical.

"If President [Donald] Trump were nonetheless on Twitter and tweeted a merits about voter fraud, someone could add context from one of the sixty lawsuits that went through the courtroom or something that an election official said…and so that people have a fuller picture rather than just an individual merits on a tweet," she said.

Doesn't the Director of Disinformation know that the Twitter comment section already exists where any user can respond to a specific tweet with their ain thoughts? This but sounds like a government official is suggesting that a individual company'due south levers of power exist in control of the government and a select group of pre-approved, trustworthy blue-checked individuals. How is this not absolutely ridiculous? And what happens when the other side of the alley takes the White House and installs their ain "trustworthy" editors? Would Jankowicz be okay with, oh, I don't know…Trump Jr. editing ane of her tweets??

I'll leave you with a tiny list of some notable, random blueish-checks on Twitter. How'd you like them to edit your tweets, or anyone else's?

Leonardo DiCaprio
RudyGiuliani
Mike Cernovich
Britney Spears
Hillary Clinton
Marjorie Taylor Dark-green
Brian Stelter
Whoopi Goldberg
Donald Trump Jr.

–Dana

What the Marshal of the Supreme Courtroom Should Practise

CNN:

The Supreme Court is set to meet behind closed doors on Th for the first fourth dimension since the amazing leak of a draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

The justices plan to discuss pending petitions and outstanding cases — but they're as well probable to grapple with the aftermath of that remarkable breach of the court's confidential operations. While the draft opinion calling for the reversal of a nearly-50-year-old landmark precedent stunned the country, the leak itself stunned the court.

Chief Justice John Roberts chop-chop ordered the align of the court — Col. Gail A. Curley — to begin an internal investigation, only sources familiar with how the court operates say the enquiry could lead to uncomfortable privacy issues, trigger further tension and erode trust every bit the justices work furiously to resolve cases concerning some of the most important social issues of the solar day regarding abortion, gun rights, religious liberty and the surround. Curley serves as the court's chief security officer and manages the Supreme Court Police Strength.

"Everything depends," one source familiar with the court's inner workings said, "on how much authority the chief justice gives the align."

Here'southward what ought to happen.

one. Keep in heed that Josh Gerstein's name appears on the byline of the initial leak. Exercise whatever of the clerks take a pre-existing relationship with him? (The answer is yeah, but I will leave information technology at that, as I don't think discussing named suspects is a skillful idea at this point.)

2. Present all the clerks (and other employees with access to the typhoon, just I recollect it'southward a clerk) with a statement to sign under penalty of perjury affirming they were non involved in the leak. Permit's see how confident they are that they have covered their tracks. Anyone who refuses to sign is gone yesterday. Former Supreme Court clerk Sarah Isgur says the clerks are employees of the Court, not the justices, although they are traditionally treated as employees of the justices for whom they work. Main Justice Roberts has the ability to insist on a sworn argument, I recollect.

I have said all along I think it'southward a leak from the left. More and more people seem to exist coming around to my position. I call back nosotros'll find out. If it's someone from the right, I think their future in constabulary is done. If it's someone from the left, south/he will be a folk hero(ine) and who knows how soft their landing will be?

But I think we'll discover out.

five/11/2022

Elon Musk Says He Will Reverse Twitter Ban on Former President Trump

[guest mail service by Dana]

New owner, new policy:

On Tuesday, Twitter'due south incoming possessor, Elon Musk, announced he would "reverse the permanent ban" on Trump. At a conference hosted by the Financial Times in London, he called the decision "a mistake considering information technology alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a vocalism." In general, Musk, a self-described "costless-speech absolutist," stated he was against the concept of permanent bans in full general considering they "just fundamentally undermine trust in Twitter." He laid out the concept for a censorship protocol that would be extremely difficult to enforce on problem users who, for example, threaten a nuclear exchange online: "If there are tweets that are wrong and bad, those should be either deleted or made invisible, and a suspension — a temporary suspension — is appropriate, simply not a permanent ban."

The lifting of the ban on Trump could happen but in time for the runup to the 2024 presidential ballot. And while Trump has already said that he wouldn't return to Twitter if allowed, we all know that a massive platform with a gigantic built-in audience in which to promote himself would be nearly impossible for Trump to resist. Bigly.

–Dana

5/10/2022

Senate To Vote On Abortion Legislation Tomorrow

[guest mail service past Dana]

Chuck Schumer believes that forcing a vote on farthermost ballgame legislation-a right to ballgame in all 50 states through the 9th month of pregnancy-will be a expert thing for Democrats:

The U.Southward. Senate will vote on legislation to codify abortion rights into police on Wednesday in reaction to the leaked draft conclusion indicating the Supreme Court is poised to overturn its landmark 1973 Roe five. Wade ruling, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Lord's day.

"Every American will see how every senator stands," Schumer said during a news conference with land leaders in New York. Republicans "can't duck it anymore. Republicans accept tried to duck it."

…

Schumer called the typhoon decision an "abomination," noting that a bulk of Americans want to preserve the right to have an abortion and women's health care.

Interestingly, Americans, including Democrats and Republicans, are not settled on the "through the ninth calendar month," nor on a number of issues surrounding abortion. Recently, a Pew Inquiry poll (done earlier the leak of the Supreme Court typhoon) revealed the conflict Americans have about abortion and limits therein. Despite the attempt of politicians, abortion is more complicated for Americans than the sort of through-the-ninth-month-or-zip demand of Schumer and Democrats. While they play politics with the consequence, I'thousand guessing that most people arrive at their decision regarding abortion by actually wrestling with the question of when life begins rather than willfully ignoring information technology. And at that place are other issues that demand a full examination and struggle of conscience by the individual: Practice we want rape and incest victims to be forced to acquit a resulting pregnancy to term? Given that it has been recognized that babies can feel hurting inside the womb certainly during the heart and end stages of pregnancy, should that science exist ignored? Also, shouldn't it brand a compelling difference on whether to abort when we know that babies can survive outside of the womb at 24 weeks?

Nearly ane-in-five U.South. adults (19%) say that abortion should exist legal in all cases, with no exceptions. Fewer (viii%) say abortion should be illegal in every example, without exception. Past contrast, 71% either say it should be more often than not legal or more often than not illegal, or say there are exceptions to their coating back up for, or opposition to, legal abortion.

As in the by, more Americans say ballgame should be legal in all or near circumstances (61%) than illegal in all or virtually circumstances (37%). Only in many ways, the public's attitudes are contingent upon such circumstances as when an abortion takes identify during a woman's pregnancy, whether the pregnancy endangers a adult female's life and whether a baby would have severe wellness problems.

There is bear witness that many people are cross-pressured on this outcome. For example, more than than half of Americans who generally support ballgame rights – by saying it should be legal in "most" or "all" cases – also say the timing of an abortion (i.e., how far along the pregnancy is) should be a factor in determining its legality (56%).

…

At the same time, the survey shows that large numbers of Americans favor certain restrictions on admission to abortions. For case, 7-in-ten say doctors should exist required to notify a parent or legal guardian of minors seeking abortions. And virtually of those who say abortion should be legal in some cases and illegal in others say that how long a woman has been pregnant should be a gene in determining whether ballgame is legal or illegal (56% among all U.S. adults).

The survey data shows that every bit pregnancy progresses, opposition to legal abortion grows and back up for legal abortion declines…

At 14 weeks, the share saying abortion should be legal declines to 34%, while 27% say illegal and 22% say "it depends."

When asked about the legality of ballgame at 24 weeks of pregnancy (described as a point when a healthy fetus could survive exterior the woman's torso, with medical attention), Americans are about twice every bit probable to say ballgame should exist illegal every bit to say it should be legal at this time point (43% vs. 22%), with 18% saying "it depends."

Nevertheless, in a follow-upwardly question, 44% of those who initially say ballgame should be illegal at this late stage go on to say that, in cases where the woman's life is threatened or the baby will be born with severe disabilities, abortion should be legal at 24 weeks. An boosted 48% reply the follow-up question by saying "it depends," and 7% reiterate that abortion should be illegal at this phase of pregnancy even if the adult female's life is in danger or the babe faces astringent disabilities.

A couple of things. Commencement, given that Schumer wants to constitute a right to ballgame through the 9th calendar month of pregnancy, how is that an accurate representation of Americans' view of abortion? Clearly, the stage of pregnancy matters when discussing legal ballgame. The farther along with the pregnancy, the less support for an abortion. But and then again, we've always known that "condom, legal, and rare" was little more than than a manipulative attempt to gratify those genuinely conflicted about abortion.

Anyhow, for what information technology'south worth, information technology'south good to take on record the electric current President of the United States (and de facto leader of the Democratic Party) say the tranquillity role out loud:

"I mean, and then the thought that we're going to make a judgment that is going to say no one tin make a judgment to choose to abort a kid based upon a decision by the Supreme Courts, I think goes style overboard."

–Dana

five/ix/2022

Twitter: Calling for the Assassination of Supreme Courtroom Justices Does Non Violate Our Terms of Service

I reported the following tweet to Twitter, because it explicitly called for Supreme Courtroom justices to be assassinated:

The cartoon in question besides chosen for the bump-off of justices, albeit with a tiny fig leaf of deniability:

The response I got from Twitter regarding the explicit call for assassination: sorry, doesn't violate our terms of service!

The email included a helpful list of cloth that would violate the terms of service. Information technology includes a prohibition on, not only threats, celebrations of violence, and promoting terrorism or tearing extremism, just besides wishing harm on someone:

This is a full joke. I run into a lot of people maxim "Elon Musk will fix this!" but his proposed standard is to allow anything that passes Offset Subpoena muster, and this probably would. That said, plain the people doing the moderation are useless and the Elon Musk standard already prevails, unless yous misgender someone. And so Elon actually wouldn't hurt much.

Meanwhile, people are protesting exterior the homes of Justices Kavanaugh and Roberts in an effort to influence their votes, which is illegal under a statute that is likely constitutional.

This is a dangerous environment and it is why the Court needs to get the abortion upshot out of the courts and into the legislatures. Public influence campaigns are appropriate for legislators. Not for judges. They are supposed to interpret the law. Flow.

I plan to accept much more to say about this.

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