Or one can do some basic reasoning and work out Team A keeps the current partial abortion access, expands health care partially and expanded voting rights partially. Versus team B who wants to erase any partial progress in these issues. Less than what you want is better than none of what you want. It’s pretty…

How is this not the lead story? I mean, I enjoy the coverage of the Met gala as much as the next person, but I haven’t felt this sinking feeling in my stomach since Trump was elected — and I’m Canadian. 

And it’s only going to get worse. The SCOTUS can either stick to their own alleged logic (and roll back civil rights entirely) or openly enshrine special pleading in legal practice (in which case no ethical or legal logic is binding, and can at most be a rationalization for whatever decision a judge decides to make…

Sure, blame the victim. 

It starts with Roe and Casey. They’ll return abortion to the states and create a patchwork quilt of laws that will result in chaos and a body count of desperate women who will be forced to turn to back-alley providers. The next time they have power, they’ll push for national abortion bans, or bans at 6 weeks or 15…

Lol this is why democrats lose every time. Even when republicans gut you, y’all’s first instinct is to blame each other instead of rallying against the fuckers who just shanked your freedoms. Y’all are going to do this both sides bullshit and inertia yourself into losing congress in November too. Obergefell is next.…

Then you are stupid. There is literally nothing the Democrats could’ve done that wouldn’t have resulted in this as it is not about actual Constitutionality, but about the religious beliefs of these 5 justices. Any law would’ve been overturned.  This has been the plan.

The only thing Congress could’ve done would never have happened — you’d need 3/4 of the states for that, and never, in the 50 years of Roe, has that been possible.

And the thing is:  They got this with an uncooperative Roberts.  The decision is basically supposed to be 5-4.

Huh? Any rights codified by Congress can be taken away by Congress. Therefore, if Democrats had tried to push through a bill establishing abortion rights, it undermines the idea from Roe and Casey that abortion rights are inherent within the constitution, and basically would have given credence to conservative…

next stop Gilead. update: there are already barricades placed around the Supreme Court building.

Are they complaining?  Or is someone from the ACLU answering questions under oath?

As someone in the non-profit industry, those “formal pledges” have exactly as much legal weight as pinkie promises. You don’t send someone to collections for not donating to charity.

I know it might look terrible to some that she didn’t write the op-ed herself but...I’ve worked in PR for years and I’ve ghost-written countless op-eds. Not everyone is good at getting their point across in an effective way, and that’s where PR people like me step in. The “author” would take my draft, make whatever…

It’s publicity. It will help get eyes on Penn’s documentary. As with most celebrities and their causes, it all comes down to how much exposure they will get and making a buck.

Holy shit. Not a Depp fan, and I don’t care about how much Heard has or has not rendered over for a promised charitable donation, but this is bad for the ACLU more so than it is for Heard. They ghost-wrote a personal victim essay, and controlled the timing of its release to both take advantage of Heard’s fame and…

In the 18th century and until about 1880, abortions were allowed under common law and widely practiced. They were illegal only after “quickening,” the highly subjective term used to describe when pregnant women could feel the fetus moving according to historian Leslie Reagan, whose 1996 book on abortion history in the…

Jezebel is investigating whether any “goofy” games on a major cruise ship involve wearing lingerie and heavy drinking and will update pending our findings

Women are to be mocked. Men who wear dresses “but for real, not as a prank or game on a cruise” are to be savagely beaten to death.