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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
I saw a suggestion that Kavanagh and Gorsuch recuse themselves given their senate confirmation testimony. That would allow them to back the fuck out of this insanity without having to join a position they don't want to take.
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I'd love that. It's one of many results that could gift us a reprieve from a total fucking nightmare. Can you imagine what legislatures will devolve into if abortion is given to state govts?
State govt has many smart capable people within it. But it's also equally filled with idiots and craven opportunists. Even dumber and more coarse than most of the idiots we have in Congress.
Every state bill will be held up by an opponent using an abortion rider of some sort. Nothing will get done. Lunatics will put out bills criminalizing morning after pills, we'll see endless pandering to the extremes on this issue, and all the necessary boring policies that keep govt running will grind to a halt. Shitshow doesn't do it justice. Think a demolition derby of clown cars, with all the jesters in them on meth and armed to the teeth.
BUT... I don't see how a huge fucking mess is avoided even if this shitrag opinion ultimately finds its appropriate home in the shredder. If Roberts succeeds and
Roe is upheld, the right will cry that it was fixed. The Court will be delegitimized to them, and these people are suicide bombers. The divisions of the past decade or so will explode from fissures into a goddamn canyon. To these crazy fuckers, this won't be a culture war anymore. It'll be a fucking holy war, a crusade.
And if that sounds nuts, well, read what GGG wrote a few posts ago. I had never heard of Integralism before. Catholic Natural Law is bad enough, and it was shocking to hear Alito and Bill Barr, despite seemingly being educated, adhere to such depraved concepts. But Integralism... Fuck. That's the bleeding edge of batshit crazy. That summons visions of the hyper-papist albino assassin in
The Da Vinci Code.
It's best for all, by miles numbered too high to count, that Roberts succeeds. But I shudder to imagine the five alarm dumpster fire that follows in the wake of such reversal.
"We live in insane times." One would previously say a thing like that as rhetorical hyperbole. It'd mean nothing. But whatever the outcome of this decision and what's coming this fall, and after, to say we live in insane times is no longer an ironic expression. It's a clinical, technical, and inescapable observation.
