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  • @Dkarma@lemmy.world
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    74 months ago

    Ignoring the 9th and 14th amendments outright took down roe.

    This court is illegitimate…end of story.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Exactly the kind of accident that Leonard Leo intended to happen at his Federalist Society’s annual conference — a three-day gathering of the conservative tribe and a strategy session for right-wing lawyers, officials and judges that drew both big names and those who had lower profiles but were no less ambitious.

    Most of those bans had not been challenged by abortion rights lawyers — who feared they might be upheld by the Supreme Court — creating a new national standard, leaving them in effect in states where Republicans controlled the legislatures, like South Carolina, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

    had won five major cases at the Supreme Court, including ensuring the right to pray at government meetings and securing an exception for Christian colleges from the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to pay for insurance coverage for contraception.

    In the fall of 2017, a few months after Tseytlin’s presentation at A.D.F.’s Ritz-Carlton summit, Jameson Taylor, a conservative Christian lobbyist, started what he called his annual “intelligence gathering” on what anti-abortion legislation he wanted to push in the next session of the Mississippi Legislature.

    Fitch’s team found Stewart’s name tucked into a pile of résumés from the Republican Attorneys General Association, a group that had received more than $13 million from Leo’s network of organizations and whose executive director used to work for the Federalist Society.

    Stewart had clerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain, a pugnacious voice for right-wing judicial thought on the liberal Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for Clarence Thomas, parlaying his conservative credentials into a post on Trump’s transition team, assessing the legality of various potential policies.


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