Roe v. Wade overturned -- this is some BS

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Lies are a subset of deception. I would have thought this was obvious to people who spoke a language or, you know, experienced existence as a human, but apparently not!
I was x years old when I discovered that lies of omission are often much worse than outright falsity.

Among the many reasons, it is the side diversion of them getting to object and quibble over whether they "really" lied and drag the discussion away from the point, accuse the other person of making attacks against their character, etc.
 
In response to complaints by Kavanaugh that demonstrators confronted him at dinner, a columnist observes that there's no Constitutional right to eat dinner either.
Oh, this is embarrassing! The right to congregate and eat dinner is actually not to be found anywhere in the Constitution. I have been studying the Constitution very carefully, including the emanations of the penumbras, and I can see why people might think there was some inherent right to dinner. Eating seems so fundamental: Whether or not you want to have steak inside yourself seems like something you ought to be able to determine on your own behalf. Eating and chewing, alone or in the company of others, feels as though it ought to be up to the person most affected, and protected from abridgment of any kind, even by the states.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ugh-dinner-steakhouse-mortons-protest-satire/
 
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Probably depending on the legislation. I doubt that they'd rule against a nation wide ban.
I think (not to say it matters to what they do) that they would have no more reason to rule against a nation wide permission. Their judgment is, technically, that the Constitution does not address the issue at all.

Ha ha. Yeah, I know. It will when they want it to.
 
Sure. They concealed their true intent.

But I don't agree that the Senators couldn't ask that question directly...
Then you haven't seen any of these hearings where they were asked directly. They never answer. They fall back on the excuse they can't discuss how they might rule on cases before them.

But I've told you that 3 times now and you just ignore that inconvenient fact.

Supreme Court Nominee Barrett Declines to Answer Questions on Key Court Cases
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday declined to answer a range of questions from senators on how she might rule on legal disputes she would face if confirmed to fill a crucial vacancy on the country’s highest court.

Here's the like hell part:
Barrett, however, said she would not let her personal and religious views determine how she would decide cases.

“I have no agenda,” Barrett said as the Senate Judiciary Committee opened two days of questioning on her lifetime appointment by President Donald Trump to the nine-member court. “I’ll follow the law.”
 
Legal Eagle has posted another YouTube on Roe vs Wade ("What Next?").

Basically, with such inconsistent reasons being given, every unenumerated right from the last century is up for grabs:
 
If you can criminalize residents of your State for what they do in another State where that act is not a Crime, Las Vegas would lose its reason for being.
 
If you can criminalize residents of your State for what they do in another State where that act is not a Crime, Las Vegas would lose its reason for being.

This 100%. I have some sympathy for the right-to-life crowd although abortion is not really a big issue for me. That said, yes, travel to another state for whatever reason must be allowed.
 
This 100%. I have some sympathy for the right-to-life crowd although abortion is not really a big issue for me. That said, yes, travel to another state for whatever reason must be allowed.
So one would think, and so we assume will remain the case, but one cannot entirely predict what craziness will actually happen any more.

Since privacy has been removed from the table, there is, presumably, no right for a woman to conceal her condition except the fifth amendment, which might not not help if other means are used to detect it. And though there are laws concerning interstate commerce and the like, there is actually no Constitutional statement that explicitly allows unrestricted interstate travel. It would be outrageous and ridiculous, but not, it seems, unconstitutional, to control movement across a border. Anti-discrimination laws might make it difficult to apply only to women of fertile age, but probably not impossible. One could, after all, screen everyone, even if the goal is only to catch pregnant women, as we are now screened at airports.

We can, I suppose, presume that travel and return is the issue here, but remember that, as far as I can determine, the Constitution fairly explicitly supports the fugitive slave laws, which apply, not to travel and return, but migration. Slavery itself was abolished, and the laws repealed, but I do not think there ever was a Constitutional challenge to the basic principle that a person deemed criminal in one state could be extradited from another in which they are not.

It's pretty far fetched to suggest that a person from one state could be extradited and prosecuted for moving to another in order to escape repressive laws, but these days, with this court, I think we should never be too complacent about how far the long dong of the law might reach.

This is all ridiculous of course. Ha ha, it will never happen here. It never does. Ha ha.
 
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If you can criminalize residents of your State for what they do in another State where that act is not a Crime, Las Vegas would lose its reason for being.

That why Las Vegas was established as a gambling mecca in the '50s, when gambling was generally illegal, but it hasn't been true for a long time. There are casinos in almost every state.
https://www.casinousa.com/map
 
That just means that abortion is a crime for those who are too poor to get it done in another state. I'd call it discriminatory.
 
That why Las Vegas was established as a gambling mecca in the '50s, when gambling was generally illegal, but it hasn't been true for a long time. There are casinos in almost every state.
https://www.casinousa.com/map

It is still true. Gambling is still prohibited in almost every state. Casinos outside of Nevada are almost always on Indian reservations, where state laws prohibiting gambling don't apply. But as with out-of-state residents visiting Nevada, state laws cannot reach where they do not have sovereignty.
 
It is still true. Gambling is still prohibited in almost every state. Casinos outside of Nevada are almost always on Indian reservations, where state laws prohibiting gambling don't apply. But as with out-of-state residents visiting Nevada, state laws cannot reach where they do not have sovereignty.

which brings up an interesting question: suppose States criminalize citizens getting an abortion outside their State - if that happens on a Reservation, would such a law work?

Note: Some Indian Tribes have made it clear that they don't intend to host abortion clinics, probably because they already suffer a lot of hate and violence.
 
which brings up an interesting question: suppose States criminalize citizens getting an abortion outside their State - if that happens on a Reservation, would such a law work?

Note: Some Indian Tribes have made it clear that they don't intend to host abortion clinics, probably because they already suffer a lot of hate and violence.

Wasn't there a recent SC ruling that pushed back on the notion that reservations weren't constricted by state law? I dimly recall reading something in the last couple of months.
 
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