i think there’s a decent chance that this supreme court elevates the old idea that the “right” of states to exercise broad police powers trumps the rights of actual human beings to live and exercise their freedoms https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/emtala-abortion-care-argument-options.html
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Questions from Roberts today also focused heavily on corporate conscience rights of hospitals—suggesting they may find a way for companies’ feelings to outweigh women’s lives in the eyes of the law.
"Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
o to be a corporation rather than merely a woman
States' rights is incoherent as a concept.
* blah blah parliament
It's definitely another asterisk
It's what it is and unlikely to change much.
Each time my family & I moved, the set of basic rights we had for employment, healthcare, and social support changed, even though we were still Americans.
This is weird.
States have Powers, People have Rights.
The language is taken directly from the 9th and 10th amendments.
(They should do that anyway and if anyone complains, they can run it through the courts again at the slowest possible pace.)
Unlikely, i know. But lack of hope is the worst thing.
Between the Democratic party's "Ooh, but that would be DIVISIVE!" and the Republicans constant push to remove everyone they disagree with, it's really depressing how little it seems like WE can do.