Patrick is referring to pre-Roe abortion bans and laws criminalizing abortion from the 1920s and as far back as the 1850s—you know, before the political realignment spurred by the New Deal era.

But the thing is she’s not a child anymore. She’s like 40 or 41. As a non-celebrity, even I know that if she asked the restaurant manager to kick the video person out of the restaurant, it would have happened immediately. This is like an NBA player reacting to a heckler going over the line by sticking his fingers in…

But the thing is she’s not a child anymore. She’s like 40 or 41. As a non-celebrity, even I know that if she asked the restaurant manager to kick the video person out of the restaurant, it would have happened immediately. This is like an NBA player reacting to a heckler going over the line by sticking his fingers in…

I assume it means they are contemplating identifying and publicly exposing the shooter. However, if they identify the wrong person as the shooter, it’s slander. Even if they get the shooter right, if they present it in a way painting the shooter as being in the wrong, it could potentially also be slander if the only…

If he refuses to voluntarily get up and get off the plane, then the police need to physically remove him from the plane. That’s why they have to remove everyone else first - because they have to prepare for the possibility of a violent altercation. I have no doubt he got off the plane without being manhandled once…

The big takeaway for me is that we need an audit of every former President’s and V.P.’s files in their offices/residences back through however many decades it takes for such documents in question to no longer be top secret (i.e. many things that were confidential, secret, or even top secret in 1977 may well be a…

Exactly. That’s like saying the people who did sit ins at segregated diners were plants. No kidding? Were they not still running the risk of having their skulls bashed in? Then how is that less heroic? Idiot.

The fact that they had her, with her feet bloody from being shot, handcuffed to a gurney shows that the police were treating her as a suspect as well.  So I can understand her not being overly trusting of the police at that moment.

There’s a difference in the level of celebrity as well. Pete first dated celebrity women who almost certainly have their own dedicated paparazzi who follow them everywhere. I don’t think the same is true of any of the celebs Hader dated. If Hader had dated the women Pete dated, it would have been public knowledge just…

“The word of God says [...] do my profits no harm.”
Don’t think I ever heard of that passage in the bible... not a lot of talk about profits or interest or investment at all as I recall...

I really don’t like her veiled threat... if she doesn’t keep her committee assignments, she’ll stop canvassing with the Democrats. It reveals a lot about her. She could have switched to Independent and said she would continue to canvass with Democrats. That would have been all it took to keep her committee…

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I have more respect for Manchin. He actually tries to follow what his constituents want. The problem is that his constituents lean heavily red. He just barely gets elected there. It’s not like there’s a more progressive person who could win his seat, and he’s caucusing with Democrats, without which we wouldn’t have a…

This bit wasn’t the filibuster. It was an attempt at a unanimous consent, which can be blocked if someone voices an objection. At that point, it has to go to a normal vote. At that point, a filibuster is a factor. And, as you indicate, the Senate’s terrible filibuster rule enables Senators to anonymously state an…

This bit wasn’t the filibuster. It was an attempt at a unanimous consent, which can be blocked if someone voices an objection. At that point, it has to go to a normal vote. At that point, a filibuster is a factor. And, as you indicate, the Senate’s terrible filibuster rule enables Senators to anonymously state an…

It’s a conservative thing. It’s like when talking about Constitutional rights for gay people they almost invariably need to link it to pedophilia and beastiality. The idea that neither of those examples involves consenting adult human beings is always beside the point (for conservatives). And this is something the…

Everyone dunking on it or the wording: what in the wording of the 13th Amendment prevents a State from setting the punishment for a crime to be slavery for life and then selling that enslaved person to a cotton farmer? The only difference between that and pre-Civil War slavery is that it would not be inherited by the…

I think the primary can be explained by the fact that there had not been a leak of Roe v. Wade being overturned when those primaries were being decided. Once it was gone, and the horror stories started flying, everyone who had decided they could vote for a GOP person who was anti-abortion as long as they were in favor…

“lol....You’re so... *pedantic”
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“In almost all of these highly anticipated races, including Rep. Val Deming’s race against Florida Senator Marco Rubio, Democrats were trying to rest wrest power away from Republicans.”