"Just a reminder that even should ------- lose the election, inevitably a Republican president will win, whether 2028 or 2032 or 2036
At that point, they will enact a nationwide abortion ban, either legislatively or through executive action or through enforcement of the Comstock Act."

According to this article, with the current SC, it could happen without an act of CongressL

It wouldn't take an act of Congress for the fetal-personhood movement to clinch a federal victory, either. If a case were brought to the Supreme Court, a conservative majority might look to state laws treating embryos as people around the country and conclude that America has a "history and tradition" of recognizing fetal rights. If they do, women all across the United States would be in the same position that women in Alabama are in today.

A second Trump turn will certainly seal the deal and sped up the process, but the first Trump term is proving much more costly than most people naively believed would be possible when they voted for him in 2016.

FTA:

The luxury Westchester County residence is not owned by Kennedy and the independent candidate's name does not appear in resident searches, the Post reported, adding neighbors"and even cops" were "shocked" to find out Kennedy was attached to the residence. "No ... he doesn't live here," a local cop told the publication. The address has also appeared on paperwork in presidential nomination petitions filed in New Hampshire, according to the outlet. The New York address was used by Kennedy over a number of years and elections up to 2020--including 2018, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2010 and 2008. The Post named the owner as Barbara Moss, who happens to be the wife of Timothy Haydock, a doctor and a longtime friend of Kennedy's. . . . Kennedy's brother, Doug, told the Post that RFK Jr. has been a frequent visitor to the property and has lived on and off at the address over the years. "He lived with Tim and Barbara. He stayed with them for a number of years," Doug said"claiming his brother still stays at the property when he is in New York.

Copper future potentially exciting
MAR 18, 2017

Copper can currently be found on one popular bullion website that I like to look at, APMEX, but you look under "Other Items" to find it. I expect $10-a-pound copper would promote the metal to having its own header.

"Since Biden took office, copper rounds and bars are selling on precious metals websites like APMEX"

JM Bullion Vs. APMEX Vs. HAA -- Who's The Better Gold Dealer?

Feb 20, 2017,02:00pm EST

JM Bullion and APMEX offer copper products. Copper is a hard asset, though it is not a precious metal and won't always move the same as gold and silver

But it gets worse if you can believe it. Republicans really do hate women. The cruelty is the point and it is hideous. Coming to every state in the union if they have their way. Just read the article to see what I mean.

FTA:

Chemical endangerment of a child. The Alabama law, passed in 2006, was intended to target those who expose children to toxic chemicals, or worse, explosions, while manufacturing methamphetamine in ad-hoc home labs.

In Etowah County, in 2013, the sheriff, the district attorney, and the head of the local child-welfare agency held a press conference to announce they intended to aggressively enforce that 2006 law. Instead of going after the manufacturers of meth, though, they planned to target pregnant women who used virtually any substance they deemed harmful to a developing fetus.

"If a baby is born with a controlled-substance dependency, the mother is going to jail," then-Sheriff Todd Entrekin said at the time. Police weren't required to establish that a child was born with a chemical dependency, though--or even that a fetus experienced any harm--a drug test, a confession, or just an accusation of substance use during pregnancy was enough to arrest women for a first offense that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years. One public defender would later call these "unwinnable cases."

Over the following decade, Etowah County imprisoned hundreds of mothers--some of whom were detained, before trial, for the rest of their pregnancies, inside one of the most brutal and inhumane prisons in the country, denied access to prenatal care and adequate nutrition, they say--in the name of protecting their children from harm.

Etowah County officials didn't come up with this idea themselves. They borrowed it from a district attorney who began testing the limits of the chemical-endangerment law years earlier in a different part of the state. Steve Marshall's theory--which essentially treats the uterus as a home meth lab, and the fetus a living child--was appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court. In 2013, the justices declared the term "child" included embryos at any stage of development, marking the first time a state Supreme Court anywhere in the United States recognized that embryos and fetuses had legal rights before the point of viability.

In the past two decades, Alabama has become the undisputed champion of arresting pregnant women for actions that wouldn't be considered crimes if they weren't pregnant: 649 arrests between 2006 and 2022, almost as many arrests as documented in all other states combined, according to advocacy group Pregnancy Justice, which collected the statistics. Across the U.S., the vast majority of women arrested on these charges were too poor to afford a lawyer, and a quarter of cases were based on the use of a legal substance, like prescription medication.

"Great post, still asking, Does a FEW out of THOUSANDS prove it was "common knowledge" and therefore irrefutable that is the reason Ms. Alito displayed it? Why the Australian link decoding American symbols?"

I included the Aussie link to demonstrate that it was indeed common knowledge that an upside down American flag was one of the symbols of the stop the steal movment.

The hidden meanings behind the far-right hate symbols on display during the US Capitol riot

Groups in and around the Capitol building on 6 January wore many accessories and symbols associated with white supremacists. Here's a look at their disturbing origins.

Upside-down American flag
The US Capitol riot saw several American flags on display, but also a few upside-down flags.

The US Flag Code stipulates that an upside-down American flag can only be used when there is "dire distress and extreme danger to life or property"

We can and we should what? Ask them to give all their opinions on cases that may come before the court up front? Even before they are confirmed? Well then what is the point of having Justices?
#235 | POSTED BY MIRANDA7

For Republicans, the point of having Justices is to legalize Republican policies. Just ask Leonare Leo and his Federalist Society judges. And, no, Democrats don't have a comparable organization that has been grooming federal judges, especially for the SC, for years now.

Trump knew how the three justices he appointed were going to vote when given the chance to overturn Roe. As he has said repeatedly, that's why he appointed them. So, yes, they did lie if only through omission when they testified before the Senate judicial committee.

Both sides want nominees to reassure them during the nomination process. Republicans as much as Democrats. Republicans don't want anymore Kennedy's, O'Connor's or Stevens' on the court appointed by them.

The stop the steal movement actually used an inverted flag prior to the 1/6 insurrection when they were protesting in various states as early as November 2020. Was it used a lot? No, but I saw incidents were it happened in places like Seattle when I did some research earlier today.. I think it was like the 1776 meme. Some Trump supporters used it, most didn't. I agree that Trump supporters and the Alitos weren't the first or last to use it.

@judgeluttig
@judgeluttig

The full quote that I gave to @jodikantor of the New York Times was as follows:

"I have long said that Supreme Court Justices, their spouses, and their families should conduct themselves in all ways and at all times such that they are beyond reproach. The honor of serving the nation on the Supreme Court requires nothing less than this, if the Court is to earn the respect of the American People that is indispensable to the public's acceptance of the Court's judgments. It is the responsibility of the Supreme Court to earn the respect of the American People, not vice versa."

The plan was for Alito and/or Thomas to delay certification long enough for the matter to be turned over to the states:

Mueller, She Wrote
@MuellerSheWrote

Remember when John Eastman admitted his proposals to nullify the 2020 election would lose at SCOTUS 7-2?

The 2 were Thomas (atop the 11th circuit where they filed a lawsuit in Georgia) and Alito (atop the 5th circuit where they filed a lawsuit in Texas).

"According to Justice Alito, things escalated and the neighbor put up a sign personally addressing Mrs. Alito and blaming her for the Jan 6th attacks," Bream continued. "Justice Alito says he and his wife were walking in the neighborhood and there were words between Mrs. Alito and a male at the home with the sign. Alito says the man engaged in vulgar language, 'including the c-word'. Following that exchange, Mrs. Alito was distraught and hung the flag upside down 'for a short time'. Justice Alito says some neighbors on his street are 'very political' and acknowledged it was a very heated time in January 2021."

Why did Mrs. Alito fly the American flag upside down after the argument with her neighbor? It doesn't seem like something most people would do at that point. The flag is just a symptom anyhow. The real problem is that stop the steal pushers like Powell and Cheesbro believed they had the support of Thomas and Alito and were counting on it.

Mr. Alito can speak for himself, and he did, in an email to the NYT, I think. He didn't mention "children waiting at the bus stop in Jan 21". Shannon Bream isn't miquoting him, because she didn't quote him. Did she misrepresent what he said? Possibly. It was roughly paraphrased. It was a series of rapid fire tweets, not an article. Apparently Shannon is a friend of the family and yes, there is bias here on her part. I think she was trying to help him out, but it is an important distinction they are her words, not necessarily his. He didn't say anything about "children waiting at the bus stop in Jan 21" in his email.
Nevertheless, it is a bit irrelevant, kids were expected to return to school soon. Many people would be upset about a sign that said F&*K Biden near a children's busstop, regardless of whether school is in session.
#115 | POSTED BY MIRANDA7

You have no evidence that Bream composed a series of rapid fire tweets. She could have spent 30 minutes composing the tweets in paragraph form before posting them:

"I spoke directly with Justice #Alito about the flag story in the NYT. In addition to what's in the story, he told me a neighbor on their street had a 'F--- Trump' sign that was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus in Jan 21. Mrs. Alito brought this up with the neighbor," posted Shannon Bream on X.

"According to Justice Alito, things escalated and the neighbor put up a sign personally addressing Mrs. Alito and blaming her for the Jan 6th attacks," Bream continued. "Justice Alito says he and his wife were walking in the neighborhood and there were words between Mrs. Alito and a male at the home with the sign. Alito says the man engaged in vulgar language, 'including the c-word'. Following that exchange, Mrs. Alito was distraught and hung the flag upside down 'for a short time'. Justice Alito says some neighbors on his street are 'very political' and acknowledges it was a very heated time in January 2021."

Supporting Roe, which had been the law of the land for decades, is vastly different from supporting DJT's big lie about the election being stolen. Just saying.

*Ethical standards for this SC

Ethical norms for judges have always existed. Ethical standards had this SC had to be codified into rules because a few members of that court have been acting so unethically.

To hear the coup plotters tell it, Thomas and Alito were both in on the plan to stop the steal:

Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski

Since we now know Alito was flying his flag upside down at the time, let's review one of the plans the coup plotters had involving him.

Sep 25, 2021
This new interview by Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give Alito time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn't anticipate Pelosi reconvening Congress that day.

The only signs I see around town are Trump. I havent seen a Joe Biden sign since last election. Honestly who would ever have the guts to put a Biden sign in their yard?
#68 | POSTED BY ROBSON

Someone gave me a Biden/Harris 2020 T-shirt that I have never worn. Why? For the same reason I wouldn't put a Biden/Harris bumper sticker on my car or one of their signs in my yard--too many Trump supporters are too unhinged. Even non-Trump voting Republicans don't trust them to remain civil.

"And if Mr. Alito hung it, that is his LEGAL right to do so so"

Legally perhaps, but ethically not so much:

"Judicial experts said in interviews that the flag was a clear violation of ethics rules, which seek to avoid even the appearance of bias, and could sow doubt about Justice Alito's impartiality in cases related to the election and the Capitol riot."

*but it is laughably ironic in this case

The tweet was paraphrased, Alito was not quoted. There is a difference between someone saying, "The sign was 50 feet from a school bus stop" and "The sign was 50 feet from where children await the school bus in Jan 21". Frankly, the second version sounds too wierd to be verbatim. Did he actually say "Jan"? Does Jan 21 refer to when the kids were waiting for buses or when the argument took place? We're they simply referring to the regular bus stop (where kids await the bus when school is open)? Were they aware )at the time of the spat) that schools had not yet reopened?
Sounds like a petty distinction but it's also petty to call a man a liar based on a second hand paraphrasal of a second hand conversation.
#78 | POSTED BY MIRANDA7

The tweet is from Shannon Bream, the Fox News reporter who interviewed Alito so he could address the NYT article, and you think she is misquoting him or misrepresenting what he said? I know accusing the media for some kind of bias is your go-to schtick, but it laughably ironic in this case.

David Corn
@DavidCornDC

It was only a heated time for people pushing Trump's Big Lie and trying to subvert the constitutional order and defy the public's will. The rest of us wanted a normal and peaceful transfer of power. Now what camp were the Alitos in?