Or else: no more "little blue pills, mailed to you in a plain brown package" so no one will know about your shameful problem Down There. Goose? Meet Gander.
One should never talk icky stuff like blood, periods, miscarriages, and toxic pregnancies in front of the men of the Supreme Court. They're delicate like that.
Comstock was such a worthless pile of insane shit, his name is now a word: Comstockery. the insane going after words & pictures some crackpot scold thinks is obscene & will hurt adults.
Clarence Thomas seems to long for the time when his kind was not allowed in town after dark, had to use separate water fountains, could not married white women and how to kowtow to the most miserable white people on the face of the earth. The dissonance is astonishing.
"pressing whether the 1873 federal law should apply to abortion drugs sent through the mail today."
You've got it -- Mr. Associate Justice, the adults in the room today are talking about a legal substance that is at present approved for sale as safe and effective in the United States. A better question would be, what is the federal government's specific interest in prohibiting the mailing of these legal items between private parties in the United States? And can that interest overcome clear, wide and long-held views in this country on the severe limits the Constitution places on state actors to restrict foundational individual civil liberties to freely associate, maintain privacy, employ the postal secrecy afforded by American law, and be in interstate commerce for the buying and selling of legal goods? We think not. Extremely not. We're not aware of any good person who agrees with the premise insinuated in your question.
can anyone answer me, I really want to know if you are in Alabama if it is legal to have a donkey sleep in your bathtub before 7 PM. and if so, for how long? does the clock start over a Midnight or Noon?
Alito and Thomas both seem to pine for a time when “men were men”, women couldn’t go anywhere without a chaperone and everyone knew their place. A time before modern conveniences (or inconveniences, am I right? 😉) when all vices were kept behind closed doors. Never mind that their strict adherence to the heyday of woefully obsolete and outdated rules and strict “originalism” memorializes a time where both Thomas and Alito, a thorn in the nation’s side of Italian descent, would have been pretty uncomfortable. I’ll never understand these people. What they are sentimentalizing in the name of obstinate reading comprehension would be pretty fucking awful to go back to! Even, especially, for them! Do they think they would somehow be the exception? I cannot, for the life of me, understand this mindset, and I’m pretty grateful for that, honestly. They want to cut their own noses off, go ahead. Leave the rest of us out of it.
While this may be a bit of an annoyance, as far as I can tell, the act only applies to United States Mail:
"Is declared to be nonmailable matter and <b>shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier</b>.
<b>Whoever knowingly uses the mails for the mailing, carriage in the mails, or delivery </b>of anything declared by this section or section 3001(e) of title 39 to be nonmailable, <b>or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, or knowingly takes any such thing from the mails for the purpose of circulating or disposing thereof, or of aiding in the circulation or disposition thereof</b>, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both . . . "
I would assume if you send your porn and pills via UPS or FedEx or Amazon or pigeon, there is no violation of the act. Anyone an expert on this?
Edited to add:
Will someone please get Substack to allow at least basic formatting in comments?
Enforcing the Comstock Act will be virtually impossible. The Postal Service is still greatly underfunded and if they think that our postal delivery person has time to "inspect" envelopes, then they need to have another think.
I read Amy Sohn's book The Man Who Hated Women" and these brave ladies also provided help for "accidents" too. THAT was what was getting to good old man Comstock as well. Before this abortion was NOT considered a crime. IIRC this qasshole (typo and it stays!) made that happen.
Or else: no more "little blue pills, mailed to you in a plain brown package" so no one will know about your shameful problem Down There. Goose? Meet Gander.
One should never talk icky stuff like blood, periods, miscarriages, and toxic pregnancies in front of the men of the Supreme Court. They're delicate like that.
Comstock was such a worthless pile of insane shit, his name is now a word: Comstockery. the insane going after words & pictures some crackpot scold thinks is obscene & will hurt adults.
Ta, Robyn. Yes, let us repeal the Comstock Act.
Okay, you can get rid of the Comstock Act, but just leave me Title 21 - FOOD AND DRUGS
CHAPTER 7 - PRACTICE OF PHARMACY AND SALE OF POISONS IN CONSULAR DISTRICTS IN CHINA.
Clarence Thomas seems to long for the time when his kind was not allowed in town after dark, had to use separate water fountains, could not married white women and how to kowtow to the most miserable white people on the face of the earth. The dissonance is astonishing.
"pressing whether the 1873 federal law should apply to abortion drugs sent through the mail today."
You've got it -- Mr. Associate Justice, the adults in the room today are talking about a legal substance that is at present approved for sale as safe and effective in the United States. A better question would be, what is the federal government's specific interest in prohibiting the mailing of these legal items between private parties in the United States? And can that interest overcome clear, wide and long-held views in this country on the severe limits the Constitution places on state actors to restrict foundational individual civil liberties to freely associate, maintain privacy, employ the postal secrecy afforded by American law, and be in interstate commerce for the buying and selling of legal goods? We think not. Extremely not. We're not aware of any good person who agrees with the premise insinuated in your question.
can anyone answer me, I really want to know if you are in Alabama if it is legal to have a donkey sleep in your bathtub before 7 PM. and if so, for how long? does the clock start over a Midnight or Noon?
Alito and Thomas both seem to pine for a time when “men were men”, women couldn’t go anywhere without a chaperone and everyone knew their place. A time before modern conveniences (or inconveniences, am I right? 😉) when all vices were kept behind closed doors. Never mind that their strict adherence to the heyday of woefully obsolete and outdated rules and strict “originalism” memorializes a time where both Thomas and Alito, a thorn in the nation’s side of Italian descent, would have been pretty uncomfortable. I’ll never understand these people. What they are sentimentalizing in the name of obstinate reading comprehension would be pretty fucking awful to go back to! Even, especially, for them! Do they think they would somehow be the exception? I cannot, for the life of me, understand this mindset, and I’m pretty grateful for that, honestly. They want to cut their own noses off, go ahead. Leave the rest of us out of it.
When in public, I prefer to tie the onion to my belt, as was the fashion at one time, rather than eating it publicly.
The fact that anyone can watch porn on the internet makes the Comstock Act ridiculously outdated.
I'm holding out hope for a 7-2 vote.
While this may be a bit of an annoyance, as far as I can tell, the act only applies to United States Mail:
"Is declared to be nonmailable matter and <b>shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier</b>.
<b>Whoever knowingly uses the mails for the mailing, carriage in the mails, or delivery </b>of anything declared by this section or section 3001(e) of title 39 to be nonmailable, <b>or knowingly causes to be delivered by mail according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, or knowingly takes any such thing from the mails for the purpose of circulating or disposing thereof, or of aiding in the circulation or disposition thereof</b>, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both . . . "
I would assume if you send your porn and pills via UPS or FedEx or Amazon or pigeon, there is no violation of the act. Anyone an expert on this?
Edited to add:
Will someone please get Substack to allow at least basic formatting in comments?
In fairness to Comstock, the steam powered dildos of the 1870s were a huge safety risk.
No True Originalist would propose that this applies to any article, etc., produced since the date the law went into effect.
Enforcing the Comstock Act will be virtually impossible. The Postal Service is still greatly underfunded and if they think that our postal delivery person has time to "inspect" envelopes, then they need to have another think.
I read Amy Sohn's book The Man Who Hated Women" and these brave ladies also provided help for "accidents" too. THAT was what was getting to good old man Comstock as well. Before this abortion was NOT considered a crime. IIRC this qasshole (typo and it stays!) made that happen.