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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

via Indigenous Action:

The "Supreme" Court establishes the supremacy of the coloniser's laws over our lands. From the Marshall Trilogy to every single decision regarding sacred sites, we should not ignore that this court is inherently anti-Indigenous. Powerful words in this post from @blackpowderpress:
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RBG fought for some of the equalities and protections under the law that seem like they should be a minimum baseline, as long as we have to exist under this system. But the system is set up to prevent individuals with good intentions from being able to do much to change the systemic problems we all face. Many people on the left looked to RBG and the courts in general for some sort of justice, hoping that some legitimate branch of the US government could offer a last line of defense against the ascent of the far right. Yet if our hopes for some way to counter their power all rested on one person, that only underscores the fact that this system never truly served us in the first place. Rather than seeking a defender among those who hold power through the "legitimate" channels, we have to challenge that legitimacy and that power itself.
If we want to live in a better world, this system of courts and laws and power concentrated in the hands of a few people has no place in our future. In truth, it never served most of us in the first place. If ever there was a time to get organized to rise up, that time is now.
For those who idolized RBG, for those who want Biden in power because you didn't want Trump replacing RGB, for those who recognize that the system is an undesirable and centralized and coercive hierarchy, let's come together and defend each other, creating networks of resistance and support so powerful that even without an advocate on the toxic institution of the Supreme Court, we need never fear the tyranny of the far right or the government itself.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote (edited )

It's been interesting watching people care about this person as a US liberal reproductive rights hero in the same week that nobody gave a shit about the revealing of forced sterilisations of migrants at ICE detention centres.

White liberal feminism strikes again.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

I responded in this meta post since it's dedicated to this issue. Your thoughts and input are welcome.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

Thanks for raising this. I'll respond as soon as I can, it may take a while.

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NeoliberalismKills wrote

Roe v. Wade is probably dead. Anyone got any resources for mutual aid abortion services?

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celebratedrecluse wrote

This is a good thing to support regardless, clinics and services have been regulated de facto out of existence in most of the places where an end to roe v wade will matter.

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NeoliberalismKills wrote

Republicans will absolutely do their best to jam someone through. Owning the Supreme Court also affords a second avenue for power if the peasants vote for the wrong rapist.

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NeoliberalismKills wrote

I'm not sure how a delay would play in the media. Dems like to pretend to be reasonable. Being reasonable means holding hearings. Hearings can only buy so much time.

The fact that one death can hold so much power should be the real debate in the US but it'll never actually be the conversation.

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NoPotatoes wrote

They can't delay without some republican defectors, and one of the traditional defectors (Romney) is not going to pass up an anti-abortion justice. The Mormons might literally kill him.

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Basil wrote

Personally I doubt it. there's no way republicans can repeal it without losing support. The presumptive nominee for the new position has even said that it's very unlikely that it will be repealed, it's just a matter of whether the funding for it will be public or private.

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NeoliberalismKills wrote

I imagine they'll pick at the edges like the states have. Not a full blown repeal but maybe a 12 week ban is deemed constitutional because Texas brought a case. That sort of thing.

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86944 wrote

ahh fuck. 2020 is really a wham episode.

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