Supreme Court (6-3) allows Texas to enforce immigration law (www.nbcnews.com)

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"The court gives a green light to a law that will upend the longstanding federal-state balance of power and sow chaos," liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion. Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson also objected to the decision.

The majority did not explain its reasoning.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

Serious question - What other legal options would the dems have to overturn a federal anti-abortion law?

[-] regul@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

set up abortion clinics on federal land (military bases, VA hospitals, National Parks--fuck it, wherever)

if people complain about the Hyde amendment there are a couple answers:

Allow private abortion providers to set up on these bases
Have the feds set up a charity fund all of whose money comes from private donations that is used to pay for these services

if the states try to block them, federalize their national guard and slam on that accelerator

but I think that anyone with a spine should stop giving so much of a shit about "legal" since the supreme court clearly doesn't

playing by the rules is how you lose

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

I have no idea what the law is on this and how it works. But the GOP could simply close that loophole. Even if the law wasn't really constitutional - it wouldn't matter at all. The law would have been exactly designed to get the imprimatur of at least 5 GOP people in black robes to say it is constitutional. And that's that.

[-] regul@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

Well, here's the thing. Supreme Court can say what it wants, but they're not the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Andrew Jackson figured this out through his intense commitment to being racist.

There will come a time in the not too distant future where a sitting president ignores a Supreme Court ruling. I'd prefer that be in service of good rather than evil.