Ta, Dok. Yes, I expected to be saying ta, Liz about this one. I am furious (again). I am sure that beneath this decision is corporate money saying it's okay to mine for e.g. uranium on tribal lands and poison their water, soil, and air. Actually, furious only begins to describe how I feel about this. I have friends who are First Nations within several states in the U.S. and they have fucking suffered enough.
Leo (VP of Federalist Society) has been plotting for years to take over SCOTUS. He's a poisonous spider; full of corrosive venom for our democracy and ensnaring the unwary in his sticky webs of deceit, hatred, fanatacism and lies.
As I understand it, he came from a western appeals court that handled a lot of Native American issues and is actually good on that one, tiny subset of law.
Yeah, since corporations are people too, they have the gawd-given right to pollute! And the braindead base thinks this is wonderful! They have no clue that they will breathing the same air as everyone else. As a matter of fact, the moron 6 on SCOTUS haven't thought about that either. Thus, gives claim to the fact (once again) that these Federalist Society fascists are anything BUT 'pro-life.'
As much as I agree, after 40 years of GOP gerrymandering, Jim Crowing, purging voting rolls, limiting/eliminating early/mail-in balloting, closing polling stations in blue precincts, franchise-reducing voter ID laws, etc., Democrats no long have any powers at their disposal to throw out the bums--politically, electorally, legislatively, or judicially. The GOP controls all the levers of power, especially the ultimate one (in 'Constitutional' terms), the USSC.
...the worst, most terrible things that the United States has done have almost never happened through an assault on American institutions; they’ve always happened through American institutions and practices....All the elements of the American experience that liberals and conservatives have so cherished as bulwarks of American freedom have also been sources and instruments of political fear. In all the cases I looked at, coercion, intimidation, repression and violence were leveraged through these mechanisms, not in spite of them.
IOW, the Republic is dead; Christo-Fascism has replaced neo-liberal economics as the philosophical paradigm that defines the "nation", and we're on our own.
(Narrator's voice:) It actually wasn't a possibility, but white folks could not help centering themselves, and the impact on them, in all issues, completely bigfooting over the actual larger meaning of this ruling.
Biden is going to have to make a decision soon and announce it. Either he’s willing to let this rump group of morons set us back centuries, or he isn’t.
The only good thing that could ever come out of this Court session is if AOC and Elizabeth Warren finally convince Manchin and Sinema to kill the filibuster and add six or more Justices who can then, in cases brought expressly for that purpose, overrule these overrulings of precedents. And then go on to reimpose the Voting Rights Act, the Medicaid requirement in the ACA, etc, etc. The door has been opened, I hope Dems can walk through it this time.
Ta, Dok. Yes, I expected to be saying ta, Liz about this one. I am furious (again). I am sure that beneath this decision is corporate money saying it's okay to mine for e.g. uranium on tribal lands and poison their water, soil, and air. Actually, furious only begins to describe how I feel about this. I have friends who are First Nations within several states in the U.S. and they have fucking suffered enough.
Leo (VP of Federalist Society) has been plotting for years to take over SCOTUS. He's a poisonous spider; full of corrosive venom for our democracy and ensnaring the unwary in his sticky webs of deceit, hatred, fanatacism and lies.
As I understand it, he came from a western appeals court that handled a lot of Native American issues and is actually good on that one, tiny subset of law.
Yeah, since corporations are people too, they have the gawd-given right to pollute! And the braindead base thinks this is wonderful! They have no clue that they will breathing the same air as everyone else. As a matter of fact, the moron 6 on SCOTUS haven't thought about that either. Thus, gives claim to the fact (once again) that these Federalist Society fascists are anything BUT 'pro-life.'
As much as I agree, after 40 years of GOP gerrymandering, Jim Crowing, purging voting rolls, limiting/eliminating early/mail-in balloting, closing polling stations in blue precincts, franchise-reducing voter ID laws, etc., Democrats no long have any powers at their disposal to throw out the bums--politically, electorally, legislatively, or judicially. The GOP controls all the levers of power, especially the ultimate one (in 'Constitutional' terms), the USSC.
https://www.theguardian.com...
...the worst, most terrible things that the United States has done have almost never happened through an assault on American institutions; they’ve always happened through American institutions and practices....All the elements of the American experience that liberals and conservatives have so cherished as bulwarks of American freedom have also been sources and instruments of political fear. In all the cases I looked at, coercion, intimidation, repression and violence were leveraged through these mechanisms, not in spite of them.
IOW, the Republic is dead; Christo-Fascism has replaced neo-liberal economics as the philosophical paradigm that defines the "nation", and we're on our own.
Thanks, we white folks can be an infuriating bunch. Thanks for continuing to put up with us!
Lol, I won't lie, you people are a handful.
(Narrator's voice:) It actually wasn't a possibility, but white folks could not help centering themselves, and the impact on them, in all issues, completely bigfooting over the actual larger meaning of this ruling.
Don't we still have the Hyde Amendment which bans any federal funding for abortion?
Biden is going to have to make a decision soon and announce it. Either he’s willing to let this rump group of morons set us back centuries, or he isn’t.
Can you name the “people” you are referencing? Because I can’t find anyone on google who actually said this.
Can you name names? “Good White Sisters” is a bit broad…
The only good thing that could ever come out of this Court session is if AOC and Elizabeth Warren finally convince Manchin and Sinema to kill the filibuster and add six or more Justices who can then, in cases brought expressly for that purpose, overrule these overrulings of precedents. And then go on to reimpose the Voting Rights Act, the Medicaid requirement in the ACA, etc, etc. The door has been opened, I hope Dems can walk through it this time.
Fucking thank you. Way to many ostensible allies don't really consider tribes as fully sovereign nations.
Just go ahead and read down the thread. You'll see multiple people mention it.
No. It doesn't.