The current Supreme Court is a joke.

[TeamPooka]

The rank hypocrisy of the current court is over the top.
They will not protect businesses like Planned Parenthood that have employees and patients assaulted and killed with a safe zone but the SCOTUS has a bigger one so fuck you citizens.

Also Justice Scalia says female patients have no rights if a right-wing Christian wants to "counsel" or harass them for getting an abortion.

[lostincalifornia]

1. The current SC is a disgrace

[get the red out]

2. I agree

It is disgusting. I am sick of it, and apparently, we are as powerless as if the US were a dictatorship.

[Gordon Alf Shumway]

3. Aren't jokes supposed to be funny?

This bunch makes me want to cry!

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. I heard a snippet ...

about this, last night on my way home. The clip had a women talking about her "RIGHT" to go where she pleases and talk to whomever she pleases ...

I yelled at the car radio: "Lady ... your 'right' to go wherever you would like is not at issue, it's what you are saying while you're doing it."

I wonder if that woman has ever considered that her "right" to talk does not trump other folks' right not to have to listen, or even interact with her?" If not, maybe I should find her and demand MY right to talk with her about whatever I can think of!

{Hmmm ... That ought'a be fun ... a (fairly) big Black guy following this white woman around, insisting on my right to tell her all about the horrors of slavery and how it intersects with the racism of today! How long before I get arrested?}

[King_Klonopin]

7. There is a saying that a teacher told us in a Law class:

"The right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins."

A public sidewalk does not provide license or unfettered permission to say
whatever you want, however you want, to whomever you want.

In other words, keep your fists to yourself !

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. I think ...

every 1st Amendment course student has heard that story ... and it remains as true today, as when I heard it 30 years ago in Law School.

And then, there's Kennedy's(?) line from yesterday, "You, seriously, wish me to write am opinion that one does not have the right to quiet discussion in a public setting?" To which the Solicitor General should have responded: "Yes, your Honor, I still did not have a right to quietly say, 'FIRE' on the sidewalk, or whisper {the N-word} to a Black person. In the former, it would certainly induce panic and the latter, a fight, regardless of how quietly, or politely, or in relation to this case, how 'earnest' I believe my consult" when I utter them."

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Now we know why the Court was shut off from the public.

[ailsagirl]

6. Don't forget Clarence Thomas

Another winner

[davidpdx]

8. They believe it is ok to shoot abortion doctors

The conservatives on the court are just as fucking loony as the people who goes out there and shoots doctors. It must fall under one of those 2nd Amendment remedies that conservatives always tout.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Wonder what SCOTUS thought of Bush's "Free Speech Zones"?

Creating a "buffer zone" around places where violence has been proven to have occurred in the past seems to be a reasonable step towards ensuring a person's safety. If all abortion opponents ever did was engage in "civil discussion" with women attempting to exercise their right to make decisions about their reproductive lives and with providers attempting to provide them with it, then there probably wouldn't be the need for such measures but we know how out of hand the anti-abortion crowd can get. Additionally, we already have restrictions on polling booths and nobody has ever challenged them- and those restrictions have nothing to do with violence, of course.

[Paladin]

11. I'm not laughing. (nt)

[TeamPooka]

12. Because it ain't funny.