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Conservative activists have spent years pushing a fringe legal theory that could ban abortion nationwide. A pair of newly appointed White Ho

Susan Rinkunas at Balls and Strikes:

As a journalist who covers reproductive rights, I’ve spent the first six months of Donald Trump’s second term waiting for the other shoe to drop on abortion. Sure, the president has pardoned nearly two dozen people who blockaded abortion clinics and signed a bill to kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid, but the administration has much more power to restrict abortion access than it’s wielded so far.  Trump’s picks for two relatively low-profile roles may signal where his administration is headed next: In recent months, he’s appointed a pair of anti-abortion zealots to work at the influential Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. OLC provides legal advice to the president and the entire executive branch, meaning its responsibilities include drafting legal opinions for the attorney general, reviewing executive orders and presidential proclamations, and assessing the constitutionality of pending legislation.  In December 2022, shortly after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the OLC under President Joe Biden notably published an opinion that abortion opponents hate. OLC opinions are considered binding across administrations, and this one said that sending abortion medications through the mail and common carriers like FedEx does not violate an 1873 law known as the Comstock Act, as long as the sender doesn’t know that the drugs will be used illegally. The Comstock Act is an anti-vice and sexual morality statute that bans the mailing of abortifacients, among other “indecent” items. But it never targeted legal abortion, and, for nearly a century, courts have interpreted it to include a medical exception. 

Anti-abortion activists, however, view Comstock as something of a skeleton key that could ban abortion pills and even prohibit all abortions nationwide. Project 2025, a conservative playbook spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, has called for the rescission of that Biden-era memo to once again permit Comstock prosecutions of what the right deems to be illegal abortions. Trump’s two recent OLC appointees are in a position where they’ll be able to do exactly that.

Trump Regime is finding a way to bring back the largely dormant Comstock Act to life, something out of the Project 2025 playbook.

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Republican Judges Have a New Plan to Kill Social Security and Medicare

Far-right judges are crafting a theory that would empower courts to strike down trillions of dollars in federal spending.

From the February 9, 2023 analysis:

What does this skirmish over a small financial agency [the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau] have to do with hundreds of billions of dollars in annual entitlement spending? The answer: everything. In her concurrence, [Judge Edith] Jones took pains to clarify that her reasoning was not limited to the CFPB. Jones announced that all “appropriations to the executive must be temporally bound.” If Congress does not put a “time limit” on funding, it gives the executive branch too much discretion over spending. Under the Constitution, she claimed, the executive must “come ‘cap in hand’ to the legislature at regular intervals” to ensure that it remains “dependent” and “accountable.” Judge [Cory] Wilson approvingly cited this idea in his own opinion formally invalidating the CFPB, highlighting the “egregious” nature of the agency’s “perpetual funding feature.”

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Does this principle derive from the Constitution? Of course not. The appropriations clause at question simply states that all money drawn from the treasury must be “in consequence of appropriations made by law.” There is no textual requirement that Congress reauthorize appropriations periodically. In fact, Article 1 of the Constitution suggests the exact opposite: It bars Congress from appropriating money to the Army “for a longer term than two years,” implying that other kinds of long-term appropriations are permissible. If they weren’t, then why would Army appropriations need an explicit time limit?

[soulmusicsongs]

I Don’t Care No More - Edith Jones and Leon Childs Combo (You Lay So Easy On My Mind / I Don't Care No More, 1973)

[the-cosmic-empire]

The Lennon & Stanley family album. Various photos of John’s relatives. 

Polly Lennon, John’s paternal grandmother

John’s aunts, Mater, Harrie and Mimi with Cynthia. c. 1964?

John with cousin David (baby) and cousin Leila. 

Bobby Dykins (Twitchy) with John’s sister, Jackie

John in Edinburgh (furthest left, couldn’t you tell?!) with Mater and Bert, and his Cousins Leila, Michael and David.

Alf Lennon (middle front)

John (furthest right) with his cousins, Stanley Parkes and Leila. 

John’s aunt Edith - Alf’s sister, and her daughter, John’s cousin, Sandra Jones.

John’s grandmother, Polly with John’s uncle Charlie, Alf’s brother at Edith’s wedding. 

Cousin Leila, Aunt Harrie, Julia (John’s mother) and Aunt Nanny (Anne)

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Appeals Court Upholds Texas Voter ID Law

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Appeals Court Upholds Texas Voter ID Law

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned a lower court on Friday to allow a Texas voter ID law to remain in place in a case that could be a major breakthrough for conservative anti-voter fraud efforts. Judge Edith Jones’s 17-page opinion for the court reverses a district......

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Appeals Court Upholds Texas Voter ID Law

Appeals Court Upholds Texas Voter ID Law

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned a lower court on Friday to allow a Texas voter ID law to remain in place in a case that could be a major breakthrough for conservative anti-voter fraud efforts.

Judge Edith Jones’s 17-page opinion for the court reversesa district court injunction that blocked the law, known as SB 5, from gong into effect. The law at issue, SB 5, was…

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I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

Anna Leathe neé Summers, The Reef

[cvanjones]

On the occasion of April 1 I would like to quote my mother,"He's nothing but an old fool."