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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, June 13, 2024

Yay?

 Legitimately good news that the Assembly of Religious Experts have allowed mifepristone to remain effectively legal. The ruling was exclusively one of standing, rather than the right to access the drug. On some level, the 9-0 ruling suggests that even Alito and Thomas are beginning to feel the pressure that their partisan and corrupt behavior has brought to bear on the Court.

So, good news! The leading manner to terminate an early pregnancy is still legal. However, you have to wonder what happens when a challenge that does have standing comes before them. 

What's more, this was always a bullshit case. Ridiculous on the merits and the law. And yet there has to be an unclinching among advocates for reproductive rights this morning. Remember, that was what it was like with Trump in the White House. What fresh hell is going to be visited upon us today? What flavor of outrage is on the menu? Living in Trumpistan was a constant clinching, and I get (a little) those who thought we had moved irrevocably beyond that with Biden's election. 

But we haven't. Until we beat Trump one last time and send him off to prison, we have to live on the edge a little bit longer.

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