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JCfromNC's avatar

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New York Governor Kathy Hochul has patiently explained to him that this is what their shield law is for and that she will, under no circumstances, be sending Carpenter to Louisiana.

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Next step -- Landry takes a page from PAB's book and sends some guys in masks and a plain white van to snatch Carpenter off the street and spirit her down to stand for her kangaroo court.

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Lynn's avatar

Women of Texas - get the hell out of Gilead…before the republicans there kill you.

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Viole Falusche's avatar

Having masked doctors who aren't identified seems -- somehow less threatening than masked, unbadged "law enforcement officers" who don't identify themselves. But, What about Jeebus? I hear them cry.

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

Jebus can see through their masks. Just like he can hear your silent prayers, much to Nancy Mace's dismay.

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Michael's avatar

Jack Vance demon prince III?

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

"The thing is, it’s very likely that this will ultimately go to the super conservative Supreme Court, which has, in fact, lately found that Texas can do anything it wants."

SCOTUS doesn't give two fucks about the Constitution, why should anyone else?

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

After all, Harlan Crow lives in TX.

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Lynn's avatar

Anything Texas wants and anything TFG wants.

Corrupted, bought off, religious zealots who will go down as THE worst Supreme Court in history.

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coco lurks from home's avatar

I'm starting to think the ultimate goal of SCOTUS is to piss off blue states enough that they start just telling SCOTUS to fuck off. Because what they really want is to break the union.

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

They've already done that by favoring Texas (and every other red state, obvsly).

The days of a non-political court are over, and they won't be coming back unless there's a reform with enforceable teeth.

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

"Paxton claims is “unconstitutional.” Unfortunately, he has yet to find the part of the Constitution that says that Texas can tell New York what to do."

Right?! Well done, Robyn. I also don't see anywhere in the constitution that says Texas can send troops to IlliFuckingnois!

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SunMoonStars's avatar

The blue states will be our only hope. Ds as a whole are not doing enough which makes them part of the problem and little on the solution side.

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Queen Méabh's avatar

And conservative men are complaining that women don't want to date them. This is one reason why.

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SunMoonStars's avatar

You mean even conservative women won't date them because there isn't a chance in hell any liberal would touch them with a 10' pole except to knock them in the head then the twig and berries.

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Stulexington's avatar

Oh no, conservative women will date them ... but have you met conservative women?

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SunMoonStars's avatar

Yeah and we don't mesh well so I leave them to themselves. They deserve each other.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Please, legitimate medical organizations and blue state Attorneys General, please file a lawsuit against the organizations of Senator Joshua Hawley's wife Erin Hawley for spreading falsehoods about Mifepristone and Misoprostal:

"Hawley, who currently serves as senior counsel and vice president of the Center for Life and regulatory practice at the [Alliance Defending Freedom]ADF, is today at the forefront of the next major abortion case to reach the Supreme Court. The case, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, seeks to further restrict access to abortion. Hawley, who serves as the head counsel in the case, argued on behalf of anti-abortion doctors at the Supreme Court on March 26 that the abortion pill, which was approved more than two decades ago, was not properly approved for pregnancy termination by the FDA and is, therefore, a danger to women. If the Court sides with Hawley’s team, it could potentially limit access to the abortion pill nationwide." --Yale News article regarding Erin Hawley, Yale Law School Class of 2005.

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Sherry's avatar

I find this delicious and delightful. Go CA.

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Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

The shooter turned himself in to his father. Where do Bongo and Kash go to get their apology from the libs mocking their incompetence?

By Hugh Hewit

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Schmannity's avatar

FoxNews?

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SunMoonStars's avatar

You mean Fux.

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Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

I call it Fixed News but yeah.

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Schmannity's avatar

California bans Texas pit smoked meats, imposes criminal and civil penalties for sale and distribution thereof

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Rags's avatar

and texas oil...and natural gas..

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jaspersdad's avatar

Trump : "One thing I say is we have to have quick trials. I called it quick trial. 'Cause in China they do have quick trials, you know? ... They should have a trial the following day."

Irony is dead.

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Stanta Knows's avatar

Says the guy who delays trials for himself at every turn.

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TimeIsLikeAClockInMyHeart⏰'s avatar

Says the guy who voted by mail and is suspending vote by mail for everyone else? You don't say. "Rules for thee, not for me!"

And if I had a dollar for every time I've thought of typing or actually typed out The Rules this year I'd have a few extra hundred dollars, I think. There's almost nothing said or done on the right that it doesn't explain.

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Hate to say, Thomas Jefferson believed the same in the days before technology.

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VaselineHabits's avatar

I guess it depends on "quick" because I don't think we should be sentencing people in a month, but it's batshit it takes YEARS to even get to court

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Oh, I understand THAT!

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memzilla's avatar

Sure, send it to SCROTUS, and let them 'splain why Article 10 doesn't apply.

LOOO-SEEEE! You got some 'splainin' to do!

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VwllssWndr's avatar

"Defendant weighs less than a duck. We find in favor of Texas."

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Less than $250. That's not going to get him much juice with Chump.

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Rooster Cogburn's avatar

'THE FEC IS PART OF THE TRANS ANTIFA WOKE MOB PLOT!"

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Sounds like he accidentally got infected with Woke.

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ciaobella's avatar

Huh, ya think? At least we have an anchor of calm reason sitting in the Oval Office. Oh wait, y’all voted for fucking chaos and hate

After Kirk Killing, Americans Agree on One Thing: Something Is Seriously Wrong

In interviews from across the country, people expressed fear and wariness, and said that the country seemed to be spinning out of control.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/us/politics/charlie-kirk-voters-politics-violence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

"Spinning out of control" -- Is that the same as saying the government is NOT in good hands?

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TimeIsLikeAClockInMyHeart⏰'s avatar

They're just catching on to what we've known for years now - what I saw as far back as 2008 and have felt brewing since 2012, and I don't consider myself entirely well-read at all, but I did take note of all the signs, and never forgot them as things got worse and worse. We've been a democracy at least 17 years longer than the RWNJs wanted us to, for them it was all over with just one glance over at Obama. They've been all AH, HELL NO ever since.

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VwllssWndr's avatar

Sure, but the right-wingers think the problem is that people like us are allowed to walk around free.

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Sherry's avatar

They’re not wrong. While the extreme right wants everyone kung fu fighting the rest of the populace Isn’t so keen on the idea. Oh one would hope.

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Rooster Cogburn's avatar

Gosh, I wonder how that happened?

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Until a few days ago, they were convinced that all the guns were pointed in one direction, and it wasn't at them.

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SunMoonStars's avatar

Don't get me fucking started on that.

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

I've felt like that since W at least, with a few periods of calm.

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ciaobella's avatar

I actually think that the 9/11 attacks succeeded in breaking America

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VaselineHabits's avatar

Covid may have finished the job

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Rags's avatar

Jan 6 marches in, flying flags and carrying sticks

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Rooster Cogburn's avatar

And Shrub shrugged off warnings, knowing that they could use it as cover for the Imperial March of Petro

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Yup.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

"The thing is, it’s very likely that this will ultimately go to the super conservative Supreme Court, which has, in fact, lately found that Texas can do anything it wants." With one major exception: Article IV (state powers) of the Constitution specifically forbids states from doing one thing, namely, challenging the official actions of another state. The Supreme Court has "original jurisdiction" (not by appeal from lower courts) over suits between states, which usually involve questions about surveying the borders or interpreting "compacts" about water rights etc. When a state tries to sue about the official actions of another state, the Court does not accept the filing. In Nebraska v. Colorado, where Nebraska did not like Colorado legalizing marijuana, Alito and Thomas dissented from the order that the suit not be placed on the docket at all, saying that the Court should have taken the case and ruled against Nebraska on the merits. They took the same position, without getting any other Justices to agree with them, when the Court round-filed Texas v. Pennsylvania, when Texas tried to question Pennsylvania's handling of the 2020 vote (their filing was also full of laughable factual errors about what had actually happened, but the Court did not go there, just refusing to accept the filing as a suit by a state against official actions of another state).

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

But, this is about 'bortion. That's different.

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tempusfugit's avatar

A) No.

B) this Nazi theofascist SCROTUS is heading for mass civil disobedience of its fascist decrees at record speed.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

But it’s also about the Justices’ ability to decide what cases they want to get into. The “original jurisdiction” is a problem for them because if any state can file their case against what other states are doing, they could be swamped with cases they didn’t want to be involved with at all.

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tempusfugit's avatar

AND WOULD BE, thank fuckin dog.

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Lady Tavestock's avatar

Abortion is different though because it's an opportunity to oppress women by eliminating their bodily autonomy. As determined by medieval scholars in England.

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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

SCOTUS will rule that California is not a state.

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tempusfugit's avatar

At which point, if it has not already happened (should have ten years ago), CA and all other blue states start massive civil disobedience and stop paying taxes.

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Demme Fatale's avatar

Bring it!

(I'd love to see all those red states get along without us!)

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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

Ummm... Residents of territories and protectorates still have to pay federal taxes and they don't get to have any representation in congress.

The only way to make it work would be for California to sign a mutual defense pact with China and then declare independence.

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Demme Fatale's avatar

No taxes.

I want total independence.

It was the first thing I researched when Trump became president.

(Too bad those organizations are run by crazies!)

So tired of seeing CA vilified by red states that are dependent on us.

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