First comment that comes to my mind --- what took them so long?

On Jan 6, they left pipe bombs in front of both Democrat and Republican headquarters.

I believe that experts agreed that the bombs were placed to mobilize the DC police away from the Capitol. No one anywhere has ever posited that the bombs were not linked to the tactical plans of insurrectionists to overwhelm the Capitol police and to inhibit any potential response there.

America deserves better leadership. Democrats deserve better leadership.

Abraham Lincoln was both pro-slavery and for shipping slaves back to Africa. Yet, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and led the United States through a Civil War against the renegade South.

Seasons change, people change. It's called the human condition. I'll always support someone who alters their course once they learn better where their old one led.

Those politically opposing Biden (such as you) are far worse by exponential degrees. Perhaps your call should go to them, not to the one who saw the error of his ways and altered them towards the arc of justice and liberty for all. Today Joe fights the good fight. And you? You criticize from the cesspool of your own open hatred and bigotry.

There is no doubt whom is the better man and upon which side of history he's on. 81 million Americans came to the same conclusion about 18 months ago.

Biden delivered the remarks after he and first lady Jill Biden met privately with families of the victims in Saturday's mass shooting, which police are investigating as a racially-motivated hate crime.

Biden called the weekend shooting that left 10 dead an act of "domestic terrorism."

"What happened here is simple and straightforward: Terrorism. Terrorism. Domestic terrorism," Biden said. "Violence inflicted in the service of hate and the vicious thirst for power that defines one group of people being inherently inferior to any other group."

Which puts most of the GOP firmly on the wrong side of the issue, and many of their most vocal candidates and elected officials find no fault in being placed there. Quite the opposite, many are openly proud of their bigotry and opposition to equality for all Americans.

"The main deficiency of our military-political position is that, in a way, we are in full geopolitical isolation and that, however much we would hate to admit this, virtually the entire world is against us," he said. "And it's that situation we need to escape."

But Russia has continued to cover up or minimise its losses during a disastrous three-month campaign in Ukraine.

A month after the sinking of the Moskva, the Russian government has only confirmed the death of one crew member and said another 27 were missing. But the families of crew members say that the death toll could be as high as 200, and many have not received any confirmation about what happened to their husbands, brothers, and sons.

On Monday, the Ukrainian government also released new data claiming that Russia's 1st Guards Tank Army lost a staggering 131 tanks in just the first three weeks of the war, one of the bloodiest periods of combat for the Russian army.

Although Alito gives an exhaustive legal history of abortion, he utterly fails to consider the health of women today who seek abortion. Unintended pregnancy and abortion are universal phenomena. Worldwide, around 120 million unintended pregnancies occur annually. Of these, three-fifths end in abortion. And of these, some 55% are estimated to be safe - that is, completed using a medically recommended method and performed by a trained provider. This leaves 33 million women undergoing unsafe abortions, their lives put at risk because laws restrict access to safe abortion services.

That a Court is about to force through a health policy supported by only 39% of Americans is dysfunctional. Indeed, if the Court denies women the right to safe abortion, it will be a judicial endorsement of state control over women - a breathtaking setback for the health and rights of women, one that will have global reverberations.

His spokesman Joe Calvello told CNN that the lieutenant governor was on his way to an event on Friday at a college in Millersville, which is near Lancaster, when his wife, Gisele, urged him to get checked out at a hospital. "I wasn't feeling well, so I went to the hospital to get checked out," Fetterman said in the statement. "I didn't want to go - I didn't think I had to - but Gisele insisted, and as usual, she was right."

"I had a stroke that was caused by a clot from my heart being in an A-fib rhythm for too long," he said, adding, "I'm feeling much better, and the doctors tell me I didn't suffer any cognitive damage. I'm well on my way to a full recovery."

He continued: "Our campaign isn't slowing down one bit, and we are still on track to win this primary on Tuesday, and flip this Senate seat in November."

Beyond the ruling classes in England and America, there is also evidence of abortion among Indigenous American peoples and the enslaved, according to John Riddle in "Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West." Enslaved Black people likely brought this knowledge with them from Africa. A drink made of a certain type of cotton root native to Africa was used to induce abortion throughout the South.

Unlike many antiabortion activists today, most religious and legal scholars at the time did not think "ensoulment" began at the moment of conception but at the time of "quickening" - when a pregnant person can feel fetal movement, generally between 16 and 22 weeks.

England passed its first law officially banning post-quickening abortion in 1800. The United States didn't follow until 1821, when the Connecticut legislature banned giving a noxious substance to a woman "quick with child."

This is one reason critics of originalism say the historical understanding doesn't, or at least shouldn't, matter. The legal scholars Alito quoted lived in a world where women were property, babies could be "monsters" and abortion was dangerous.

When the SCOTUS appears to overturn a half century's legal right of women to control their own body's autonomy based on the specious and mendacious assertions contained in the leaked majority opinion, the very spirit and point of constitutional law vis-a-vis stare decisis and unenumerated rights will be turned upon its head in open service of a religious agenda that gives primacy to one specific faith's view at the expense of many other opposing religion's commands and dictates upon the same subject.

Thank you Laura, I stand corrected.

They fit under the LIBERTY section of "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness"

That would be the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. Those words are not part of the U.S. Constitution.

But seeing as how the DOI preceded and set the foundational rationales and driving principles behind the formation of the United States, the words have always been spiritually tied to the Constitution with its defined Bill of Rights.

These issues should have been resolved legistlatively.

They were. See the 9th Amendment and it's language on unenumerated rights. Your own personal autonomy and equality should never be up for a vote from people who aren't you.

Which is to say that the pro-democracy argument against Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to have an abortion falters on a few key realities. The first relates to democratic government, or the lack thereof, in the states. The second relates to the expansion of state power inherent in any effective law against abortion. And the third concerns the intimate relationship between bodily autonomy and political equality.

[T]here are a number of states - home to tens of millions of Americans - where voters may not actually have the power to elect lawmakers to protect the abortion rights they say they want. If states and state legislatures are supposed to be the places where democracy happens - and that itself is debatable - then these facts are a real challenge for the pro-democracy case against Roe.

Next is the matter of the abortion bans themselves. Republican-led states have already introduced bills that would criminalize patients as well. But even if that weren't the case, there's simply no way to enforce an abortion ban without the state intruding deeply into women's lives.

Democracy rests, on paper at least, on the idea of political equality - that all citizens have equal standing and equal say when it comes to representation and political decision-making.

But equal standing is undermined and eroded when the state can effectively seize your person for its own ends - that is, when it can force you to give birth. And the erosion of political equality has social consequences; it leads to disregard and disrespect, to treating the people in question as a subordinate class.

It's not just the Supreme Court, it's also every state where Republicans have gerrymandered the state's legislature to the point there is no longer a democracy of the voting majority, it's authoritarian rule by the voting minority - of Republicans.

So even though Democrats cast far more ballots in states like Wisconsin, they still lose to GOP minorities where 45% of the total vote translates to 55-65% of the seats. In other words, even in these GOP dominated states, the majority of voters' expressed desires on this issue are completely ignored by their elected representatives who enshrine and codify their own personally-held views instead.

James Madison anticipated and wrote about such schemes long ago in Federalist 10:

It's not just the Supreme Court, it's also every state where Republicans have gerrymandered the state's legislature to the point there is no longer a democracy of the majority, it's authoritarian rule by the minority - of Republicans.

So even though Democrats cast far more ballots in states like Wisconsin, they still lose to GOP minorities where 45% of the total vote translates to 55-60% of the seats. In other words, even in these GOP dominated states, the majority of voters' expressed desires on this issue are completely ignored by their elected representatives who enshrine and codify their own personally-held views instead.

James Madison anticipated and wrote about such schemes long ago in Federalist 10:

It's breathtakingly ignorant to not understand that anti-discrimination laws based on how individuals are perceived by those choosing to discriminate against them would obviously include personal information or realities of those same individuals that have nothing at all to do with their qualifications and abilities to perform the actual work they're applying for.

Basically to my ears, Alito is openly saying that Congress would not have passed anti discrimination laws if they knew the laws would be applied to LBGTQ persons as well. So Alito is saying by proxy, that unless specific laws are passed to illegalize specific itemized discriminatory conduct, Americans suffering from said discrimination should have no legal recourse before the courts.

This man is an affront to human evolution and the very spirit of our Constitution as a living document, instead of a chain forever tying citizens to our less enlightened and experienced past. I guess liberty is just a nebulous concept in Alito's feverish mind unless a legislative majority deems it so, regardless of Constitution's charge that unenumerated rights are retained by citizens even when not mentioned in the document itself.

Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.

John Donne

We just need to face reality: Samuel Alito is the equivalent of Robert Bork ... fully hyped up on Red Bull.

What is WS?

You mean our goy genius can't figure it out by the content and context of the sentence itself?

Color me not surprised. It's an abbreviation for Wisconsin, even if it isn't the one used by the USPS.

Any MAGAidiots want to explain how Brandon is destroying the economy and blowing up the deficits? And before pointing out that April is indeed the deadline month for normal tax payments, also note the word R-E-C-O-R-D in front of the total government revenue. Every year has an April but none of them have had an April like 2022.

Can we say it altogether now? Thanks Brandon.

Now resume kvitching about every other global economic malady affecting U.S. citizens. It's what you do when you have no actual answers for addressing said issues other than blaming the POTUS as though he's omnipotent.

Unreal. A miscarriage is not an abortion. People know what a miscarriage is.