COURT RULES 5 TO 3 AGAINST TEXAS LAW!!!!

[spanone]

thank you supremes

[Are_grits_groceries]

1. YES!!!!!!!!!! nt

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Just watching the report on NBC.

[sufrommich]

3. I was so afraid that it was going to be a tie.

This is wonderful news.

[lapislzi]

29. Me too. That was my biggest worry.

Now...if the Senate would do its fucking job, we wouldn't have to worry (as much) about this crap. I devoutly hope that President HRC puts up a nominee so odious to the soon-to-be minority GOP Senate that they will have a collective brain aneurysm.

Is it against TOS to hope that Thomas gets pecked to death by rabid zombie chickens?

[longship]

32. I think that Thomas pecked to death by rabid zombie chickens is obligatory here.

Have at it, Hoss!

And don't get me started about numerous and various parasites (or Moray eels) with regards to Justice Thomas.

These are pleasant dreams of mine. Sadly unfulfilled.

[lapislzi]

34. So many parasites, so few judges.

I'm thinking of that nasty one that swims up your no-no part...or the one that gives you elephant feet...or the one...

Forget it. Just dump them in the Amazon rain forest. Something will get them. Alito, Thomas, and Roberts couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.

(No, I'm not from Texas, but I studied it in college).

[longship]

36. I prefer the one that makes them cat women.

You know, the parasite that infects mice to actually run TO the cat so it can be eaten and complete its life cycle in the cat.

Apparently it is a neuro-parasite that also infects humans.

I want to see Roberts, Alito, and Thomas as frumpy cat women, horribly controlled by toxoplasma gondii so the only thing they can do is to collect more cats, thus propagating the species, hopefully solely along partisan lines.

[lapislzi]

40. I declare you the winner.

So much win in that idea that I am in awe of you.

[lark]

56. There's still time.

Don't lose hope. I always said Scalia was one of the worst people in the US and that his absence from SCOTUS would be blessing, and after years and years, it finally happened. Not saying I want him to die, just be gone from SCOTUS in whatever form that takes. Not sure who's the worst justice, though, Alito or Thomas? I'd be even happier with either of them gone.

[Amimnoch]

63. I'm hoping she pickes Barak or Michelle Obama as an appointment.

Either have the credentials, and the exploding right wing heads across the nation would be epic.

[Yavin4]

4. Details please.

What Texas law? Texas has a lot of fucked up laws.

[brooklynite]

6. Law that "regulated" Abortion Clinics to the point that almost none were legal

[Yavin4]

7. Thanks! Great news!!!

Congrats to Wendy Davis. A real hero.

[Ilsa]

27. It was this bill that Wendy Davis filibustered.

She had a urinary catheter and pink supportive sneakers, went on for hours until the deadline passed and the Legislature went out of session. Dumbass Rick Perry had to call a special session to pass this highly restrictive law, requiring clinics have building structure like day surgery centers when most abortions are done by medication.

The court also took issue with changing the requirement of doctors to not just have a referral relationship with a hospital to having admitting privileges. They saw no need for this change.

[Glimmer of Hope]

5. Woo hoo!!!!

[sufrommich]

8. Wendy Davis on MSNBC right now,she's

fighting back happy tears.

[wryter2000]

14. Fabulous!

Who was #5? Kennedy?

[sufrommich]

17. Yes,MSNBC reporting it was Kennedy.nt

[Rose Siding]

33. Bless her heart! She worked so hard on this for us

[malaise]

58. She should celebrate

[Gabi Hayes]

10. who was the apostate? I can't wait to see the troglodyte call for this:

[Jennylynn]

11. Please post how the court voted when you find out?

5-3 who. As if I couldn't guess but which Righties went Lefty?

[sufrommich]

13. I think it was Kennedy. nt

[Jennylynn]

15. TY!

[Ilsa]

28. Kennedy and Breyer joined fabulous RBG, Sotomayor, and Kagan. nt

[RandySF]

12. Elections have consequences. The Sumpreme Court is relevant.

[NightWatcher]

16. Imagine all the other shit we'll get fixed once the Dem Senate approved Hillary's 2-3 Supremes

We really should send Donald an Edible Arrangement for his help destroying the repukes.

[calimary]

18. This damn Texas law was doomed - Senate obstruction OR NOT!!!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

5-3! Even if scalia had been there, and we know how that Neanderthal would have ruled, it would still have failed.

[rpannier]

19. I'm beginning to wonder about that

I've read in several places that he was an effective advocate among the more conservative members of the Court
That he was often able to sway opinions to his favor
I'm glad he's gone

[calimary]

23. You and me both, my friend!

[Gabi Hayes]

26. got that:

nobody beats the wiz!

[spanone]

55. oooh, i'll never 'unsee' that.

[Scalded Nun]

20. This makes my week. Wonderful news

Now, if there was a way to permanently fix this to remove its status as a perpetually moving target for the haters.

[Starry Messenger]

21. Yes!!!

[Lunabell]

22. Woohoo

Dayum! 2016 and we're still fighting this.

[surrealAmerican]

24. excellent.

good news for once

[LenaBaby61]

25. Yikes....

What's gotten into Anthony Kennedy lately

[Moostache]

39. A looming sense of mortality?

Seems like he may be concerned with more of his legacy in the history books than he place in good standing in the GOP books...about damn time too!

[herding cats]

43. I read yesterday where he was questioning the Texas solicitor general

I assumed then he was going to overturn the ruling. Thank goodness I got one right!

[womanofthehills]

30. Many Texas Women were crossing the border into NM for abortions

When the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, at the beginning of March, the question of having to cross state lines came up during oral arguments. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked some pointed questions about the implications of women being forced to travel to New Mexico, or any other state, to obtain an abortion because of Texas laws. That may not seem like a big deal, but Ginsburg was getting at the question of whether HB2 places an "undue burden" on Texas women,

She started out by asking how many women live more than 100 miles away from a clinic.

When Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller replied that about 25 percent of Texas women are at least that far from a clinic, but said they couldn't be sure since there was a clinic just over the state line in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

Ginsburg observed that this was an "odd" approach since New Mexico definitely doesn't have the same standards that Texas is trying to put in place, according to Slate. “So if your argument is right, then New Mexico is not an available way out for Texas, because Texas says: To protect our women, we need these things. But send them off to New Mexico, and that’s perfectly all right," she said. "Well, if that’s all right for the women in the El Paso area, why isn’t it right for the rest of the women in Texas?”

http://www.houstonpress.com/news/texas-women-increasingly-cross-the-border-into-new-mexico-for-abortions-8260917

[AllyCat]

61. I love RBG!

[bigwillq]

31. Awesome!

K and R

[niyad]

35. about damned time we have some good news on reproductive rights!

so glad scalia is gone.

[malaise]

37. Great news indeed

Rec

[Stinky The Clown]

38. We were in a company meeting when this broke. The room cheered out loud!

[Jitter65]

41. TREXIT!!! May the force be with you!!

[IronLionZion]

42. Kennedy does the right thing again

not bad for a Reagan appointee.

But these types of split votes show the importance of having the 4 Dem appointees. We need more Dem appointees.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

57. Having a 5-4 liberal majority on the court

is the Republican Party's worst nightmare, which is why they are bucking tradition, precedent, and common sense in preventing an Obama nominee to replace Scalia to even come up for a hearing (and getting away with it, so far, though I doubt that they will be able to hold off if HRC wins in November). If the rumors are true about Thomas possibly looking to retire soon as well and HRC wins in November, it will literally be trench warfare to confirm his replacement as well. Hopefully, we just win back the Senate in November, then the Republicans won't be able to delay the process anymore once January rolls around.

[mcar]

44. K&R

[ismnotwasm]

45. K&R

[smirkymonkey]

46. Bravo!

[ohheckyeah]

47. Good news.

Virginia's next. Yay supreme court.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

48. Fantastic news! SO very glad for the women of Texas! n/t

[sarisataka]

49. Good news nt

[Cary]

50. This is why it's so important to win in November

[missingthebigdog]

51. WooHoo!

[spanone]

52. here's the vote breakdown....

[Hekate]

53. KICK

[DonCoquixote]

54. When the bad guys win, the good guys need

to savor and remember their victories, so that we can build upon them for future victories.

That whirring sound you hear is Tony Scalia turning over in his grave.

[perdita9]

59. Hurrah for women's rights!!!!

It's nice to see the Supreme's get one right

[sheshe2]

60. Hot Dayum!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

62. YAAAY!! Kick!