McConnell, Trump, and their millions of supporters have ruined this country and put us on a trajectory that I don't know we can turn around. This SCOTUS is going to set us back decades. If they over turned Roe, what else will they now deem they have the right to overturn?
I'm just heartbroken. Even thought it seemed like it was coming, seeing the actual news headline made me just cry. It's real and I don't know what we're supposed to do.
Post by seeyalater52 on Jun 24, 2022 9:39:04 GMT -5
I’d also like to give a special honorable mention fuck you shoutout to our little friend Roberts for his absurd little concurring opinion that leaves him just enough plausible deniability that I truly think he feels his hands are clean. Fuck your legacy, dude.
Post by mcppalmbeach on Jun 24, 2022 9:39:06 GMT -5
I feel sick and heartbroken. Shocked that I live in a country that supports gun rights over women’s rights. Shocked that federal access to an abortion is no longer guaranteed. Shocked. Fuck, man.
I can't. What are they going to come for next? Why are religious extremists allowed to make these decisions? This is not a theocracy. The majority of people support choice. What the actual FUCK.
The Court today declines to disturb substantive due process jurisprudence generally or the doctrine’s application in other, specific contexts. Cases like Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U. S. 479 (1965) (right of married persons to obtain contraceptives)*; Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U. S. 558 (2003) (right to engage in private, consensual sexual acts); and Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U. S. 644 (2015) (right to same-sex marriage), are not at issue. The Court’s abortion cases are unique, see ante, at 31–32, 66, 71–72, and no party has asked us to decide “whether our entire Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence must be preserved or revised,” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 813 (opinion of THOMAS, J.). Thus, I agree that “[n]othing in [the Court’s] opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” Ante, at 66.
For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is “demonstrably erroneous,” Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U. S. ___, ___ (2020) (THOMAS, J., concurring in judgment) (slip op., at 7), we have a duty to “correct the error” established in those precedents, Gamble v. United States, 587 U. S. ___, ___ (2019) (THOMAS, J., concurring) (slip op., at 9). After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.
The anger in me is unbearable. Everyone that called us hysterical for screaming about this, all those who sat on their high horse because a candidate didn’t fit perfectly into their unicorn box, all those who unapologetically threw so much hate on the one candidate who could avoid this…..I hate them all. I will never ever stop talking about that and never ever stop blaming them.
I'm just heartbroken. Even thought it seemed like it was coming, seeing the actual news headline made me just cry. It's real and I don't know what we're supposed to do.
I cried when the leak came out and I cried when I got my news notification today, despite the rumors yesterday that the decision would come out today.
Knowing doesn't make it any easier when it happens.
The Court today declines to disturb substantive due process jurisprudence generally or the doctrine’s application in other, specific contexts. Cases like Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U. S. 479 (1965) (right of married persons to obtain contraceptives)*; Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U. S. 558 (2003) (right to engage in private, consensual sexual acts); and Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U. S. 644 (2015) (right to same-sex marriage), are not at issue. The Court’s abortion cases are unique, see ante, at 31–32, 66, 71–72, and no party has asked us to decide “whether our entire Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence must be preserved or revised,” McDonald, 561 U. S., at 813 (opinion of THOMAS, J.). Thus, I agree that “[n]othing in [the Court’s] opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” Ante, at 66.
For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is “demonstrably erroneous,” Ramos v. Louisiana, 590 U. S. ___, ___ (2020) (THOMAS, J., concurring in judgment) (slip op., at 7), we have a duty to “correct the error” established in those precedents, Gamble v. United States, 587 U. S. ___, ___ (2019) (THOMAS, J., concurring) (slip op., at 9). After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated.
We knew it was coming but it’s so blatant. The court also essentially ended the tiers of scrutiny with their ruling in Bruen. I’m truly scared about what happens next.