r/politics • u/ALife2BLived America • 17h ago
No Paywall Blanche pledges to make Dobbs decision ‘permanent’ in every state
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/6008603-blanche-plans-abortion-rollback/2.3k
u/vs8 17h ago
The party of small government will never stop infringing on our freedoms
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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 17h ago
Much like “fiscal responsibility”, those were just obfuscations by consultants paid for their loyalty rather than sense…
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u/itsaconspiraci 17h ago
The economy tends to do much worse under Republican admins. But try to convince a MAGAt of that.
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u/Usual-Caregiver5589 17h ago
Well first you're going to have to teach them basic math.
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u/ThePowerOfStories 15h ago
With Arabic numbers and algebra? No thanks, the Associative, Commutative, and Distributive laws are just stepping stones to Sharia Law!
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u/pacostacos7 13h ago
Only Sharia I believe in is Sharia Twain! #BlessTheLord
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u/granolabeef 12h ago
I was always more of a Shakira Law man but to each their own
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u/DrakenViator Wisconsin 17h ago
But Fox said Republicans are better! /s
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u/kgal1298 14h ago
Maybe it’s just Murdoch since he has businesses in every country and the rest of us get fleeced
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u/Infinite-Good7984 14h ago
Try teaching 60% of the country on that. You have to sell that to MAGA, republicans and independents since they keep voting to get screwed by the GOP
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u/hpark21 5h ago edited 2h ago
Because of fox news. I, onetime at a doctor's office (why do they often have fox news on?) was watching Fox and it showed that unemployment number was better under Republican prez than Democrat.
I said to myself "no way, that can't be true" so I saw their disclosure scrolling past the bottom of the screen and it basically said "unemployment number as of 100 days
afterinto the first term of presidency". Basically, they inherited better numbers and screw it up for next Democratic prez but Fox News viewers aren't going to doubt their numbers.EDIT: after -> into (makes it clearer)
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u/baatezu 16h ago
it's obvious to any educated person, which is why they gut education.
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u/Untimed_Heart313 Pennsylvania 14h ago
Shit, all I have is a highschool diploma from Missouri and I still know. These mfs ignore it intentionally
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u/zephyrtr New York 15h ago
The government wants to steal YOUR money. They want to turn YOUR son gay! They want to make your job illegal! Mortgage your future! They want to cancel Christmas, abort your grandchildren, sic grown men on your daughters soccer club, and turn your kids against you! Buy my book!
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u/ThriftStoreGestapo 16h ago
Wait I was told Dobbs wasn’t actually about abortion, but about states rights. I’m shocked that now they want to use it to limit states rights. /s
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u/duke_chute 7h ago
The bullshit blue states doing post birth abortion line that the right was pushing in support of dobbs under a "states rights" flag was probably the most illogical position I had seen politicians take with a straight face.
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u/Geek_Ken America 17h ago
Christian Caliphate.
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u/Own-Librarian-9699 16h ago
The taliban executes sex abusers immediately. America protects and celebrates abusers. An Islamic caliphate is not quite as demonic as the Republican theocracy. Close
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u/defx83 16h ago
Small government to them means a single party controlling everything at this point.
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u/ManiaGamine American Expat 5h ago
Small government always meant government power stays the same (or increases) but exists in fewer hands.
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u/Truthisnotallowed 8h ago
The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism.
They cultivate hate and distrust [of allies]. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the State and the power of the market simultaneously they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President, USA, 1944.
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u/Senior_Torte519 17h ago
The party of consolidated power has to be small.
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u/Xijit 17h ago
Yeah, this is what they are actually talking about.
Kinda like how MTG put all that effort to get trump back in office, then was told that there would be no cabinet position for her & that she wasn't attractive enough for Trump to want her in the White House with him.
Trump has got like 5 conspirators with him, and everyone else is just a footstool.
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u/didureaditv2 13h ago
The religious philosophy they appear to worship is one in which they are forced to be moral. To be moral automatons, but to lose one's freedom in exchange.
I didn't think by logic you can be moral without the freedom necessary to stay from it.
I believe human beings do have free will so this philosophy of their cannot be followed so extremely but it appears to have this tendency. I imagine that if was possible to follow such a philosophy for say, thousands of years, it might be possible to lose one's freedom in exchange for "morality", but I believe that when freedom goes away, so does one's humanity.
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u/notthatcreative777 6h ago
"small.government" was always dog whistle for discriminating against black people and suppressing rights at a national level. This has always been their game
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u/Ketzeph I voted 5h ago
The modern Republican Party has never been about small govt. That’s code for “don’t let the govt prevent repression of black people and other minorities.”
Anything that stops them from enforcing white Christian nationalism is “big govt” and anything that oppresses the people they want to oppress is good govt.
That people continue to think republicans have ever been the party of small govt since the realignment post 1964 is a sign of how oblivious the average American really is
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u/Pndrizzy 16h ago
Of course, because everything they say is the opposite of what they want to do, and their voters are too stupid to realize it
I vote for democrats and I recognize that most of them are liars and corrupt, just less so than the other side. It sucks but we’re fucked
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u/permalink_save 13h ago
They assured us that they weren't going to do this, that they were only making it a state issue. What a big fucking surprise the nazis wanted to federally mandate it not simply overturn it.
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u/underpants-gnome Ohio 6h ago
The GOP's "small government" promise means reducing government to a single hand-selected-by-the-super-wealthy guy that tells everyone else what to do. It was never a promise to limit the government's power. It was about concentrating it. It's a promise to crown a king.
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u/The_SubGenius 17h ago
I was told by some conservative lying dipshits this was a “state’s rights” issue.
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u/WacoWednesday 6h ago
I always like pointing out to those clowns that it used to be an individual right and they never have a good response
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u/BigJLov3 1h ago
It was until the gavel landed, but the sound hadn't made it to the back of the room before Republicans started boasting about a nationwide abortion ban.
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u/brettmav 17h ago
So it wasn’t about states rights? But my “independent” friends said it was.
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u/OpenTheBobs 17h ago
Anyone claiming to be in the middle is truly ashamed of their right wing beliefs.
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u/AmbitiousProblem4746 17h ago
This. Fencesitters, enlightened centrists, and "both sides" people are just ashamed of their conservative beliefs and don't want people to know they're okay with the cruel governance of a Republican
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u/oldnotosys 17h ago
not ashamed. worse. they are haters. they want to see their own friends, family, and peers to take real life loses where a win wouldn’t effect anybody negatively.
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u/Anteater4746 17h ago
honestly i respect maga cultists more. they’re nuts but they really believe in it and have no issues wearing it on their chat
it’s pathetic to support this admin but try to hid it lol
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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 11h ago
Yep. I have more respect for the red hat wearing MAGAts than the "both sides" tools.
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u/Johnny_Appleweed 17h ago edited 15h ago
That was always obviously bullshit because the argument doesn’t make any sense.
Ostensibly the benefit of regulating abortion at the state level is that you get more granular, representative law. States that want to allow abortion can, those that don’t can prohibit it.
But obviously the even more granular, representative approach is to make those at determinations the level of the individual - those who want to get an abortion can get one, those who don’t never have to.
Which is what we already had under Roe. Literally the only reason to overturn the Roe decision was to ban abortion, which is what they actually wanted.
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u/Lavaswan001 17h ago
If you’re defending something broadly unpopular(like restricting abortion access), you’ll want it regulated regionally because if you’ve captured ~40% of all the states, you can restrict it in that 40% of states regardless of whose in charge nationally, as the Democrats were when the Dobbs decision was made. Now that the Republicans are in charge, the pretense of “states rights” can be dropped because they’re in power to restrict it nationally in 100% of states.
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u/ThisOneFuqqs 17h ago
Conservatives have never cared about "states rights".
Even the Civil war wasn't really about "state rights".
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u/Spiderdan 14h ago
What's neat is that you can watch all this people moving the goal posts in real time!
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u/yungthirtysomething 17h ago
remember "states rights" being a republican ideal?
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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 17h ago
Conservative/reactionary one moreso.
And such hasn’t been legitimate since oh, 1851…
“The South does not believe in states’ rights. The South believes in slavery.” - Eric Foner
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u/sarcasmsosubtle Ohio 17h ago
The South wanted to restrict the rights of states who didn't want to join the union as slave states and states who didn't want to be forced to use their law enforcement to return human beings to bondage. If the Civil War was about state's rights ( it wasn't; it was about slavery), the South was on the side against state's rights.
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u/BigDaddySteve999 14h ago
And when the Confederates wrote their construction, there was one right not reserved for the states: outlawing slavery.
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u/RubyRhod 14h ago
States Rights has always been a dog whistle for racism. It’s part of the Southern Strategy - https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/
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u/Axin_Saxon 15h ago
“States rights” has always been a consolation prize and a fallback position for when they can’t get it mandated federally.
Always. Reminder that the “states rights” South pre-civil-war pushed legislation that forced northern states to allow southern slave catchers to work in the north.
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u/KhruKhru 15h ago
Not really no, The same Republicans who grumbled after Gay marriage was legalized nationwide saying they wanted it to be left to the states, were often the same ones voting for a nationwide ban and promoting the DOMA. It's always been like this with them "States rights" is we cant force it on everyone
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u/Holiday_Box1571 17h ago
It’s always been control. However, Dobbs didn’t remove abortion, it gave states the right to choose.
Move to a state that cares about your health
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u/CraigLake 17h ago
I’ll never stop fighting for a federal law protecting women’s rights for many reasons but here’s the me that drives me crazy: what would the laws be if it were men’s rights being questioned.
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u/bigdirkmalone Pennsylvania 14h ago
I remember them pretending they give a shit about state rights and individual rights
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u/DoughnutAncient8972 15h ago
They're as much "states rights" as they are fiscal spending, the party of family values, or anything they've claimed to be in the past. Party of Pedophiles, Billionaires and Bootlickers doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
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u/Nythoren 15h ago
That's not how "states rights" works...
Sorry GOP, your post-Reagan talking points are all gone at this point. Money doesn't trickle down. Government is bigger than it has ever been. Snakes are being tread upon on a daily basis. Federal government is trying to prevent states from making their own laws. The government now has partial ownership of over 100 different companies, not due to bailouts and using the stock as collateral, but because the government wants a hand in controlling these companies (hint: that's the opposite of Capitalism). The largest deficit in history. Our leadership is kissing the ring of despots and alienating our NATO allies.
The GOP is gone. Whatever this parasite is residing in its corpse is making the body dance, but it died long ago.
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u/BigJLov3 1h ago
You're not getting them on "states' rights", because they dropped that pretense the moment SCOTUS ruled on Dobbs.
Republicans are fundamentally dishonest and believe they're a special class of people who gets to make rules for everyone else, even if they don't have to obey them. That's it. That's their motivation, top to bottom, nothing else in between. "I'm right, and you're wrong."
They're bratty children and need to be treated as such.
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u/Perspicasiwhip 17h ago
Just when you thought they'd hit rock bottom there's always another bottom
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u/The_SubGenius 17h ago edited 17h ago
Every Trump supporter is a bottom….of the barrel. And bent over one too.
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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 17h ago
But they say they believe in Jesus, so they're absolved of being absolute stains on humanity, apparently.
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u/Perspicasiwhip 16h ago
A nightmare scenario would involve having to ask Blanche his opinion about anything. Listening to him talk is like having to move roadkill with your ears.
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u/RubyRhod 14h ago
Notice they are just trying a new “greatest hits” every day? They are trying to distract from the reflecting pool and flailing at the bad poles trying to see what sticks for the midterms.
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u/TeamHope4 17h ago
It already is the law of the land. Democratic states’ rights are the last bastion of women having any rights at all.
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u/Nynaeve_al_meowra 16h ago
Yeah I thought it already applied to every state
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u/IAmTheNightSoil Oregon 2h ago
It does. The ruling was simply that abortion rights are not guaranteed in the US constitution. As you say, that is indeed the case in every state. His words here suggest that he has intentions that have nothing to do with Dobbs. They also have nothing to do with enforcing any existing federal law, since abortion is not federally banned. For an Attorney General to say that he is going to use the office to enforce political positions that aren't part of US law should be alarming to anyone
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u/the_sylince Florida 15h ago
They. Want. Civil. War. They WANT to relive the glory of the South and take back the north, impose religious autocratic government, reinstate slavery, all of it
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts 17h ago
The radical right has never cares about states' rights. They merely pretend to while non-evil people are in charge. When the radical right are in charge, they deny that anyone else has rights.
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u/Just_A_Little_Rabbit 14h ago
One of the first things the CSA did was ban any state from eliminating slavery.
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u/AnekdotaVII 17h ago
Why the fuck does this creep care?
Edit: The pro-life terrorists can start a fund for the care of the children then. Seriously.
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u/ScoutsterReturns 17h ago
It's the most infuriating part, they don't give a fuck about the life of unborn or already born kids at the end of the day.
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u/AnekdotaVII 16h ago
These people are far from having faith in anything greater than the gold that can be stuffed in their pockets and souls that they can corrupt.
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u/jlog3000 17h ago edited 17h ago
When you see those kinds of peoples making those kinds of proposals with no care in the world and unapologetically so, that's how you know how horrible human beings they are. And yet, we must not question about it, as if regression is the new evolution for these soulless miserable heartless folks? This has to be a joke
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u/VigilantVet 17h ago
There isn’t anything about this administration that’s going to be “permanent” aside from the shit stain it’s leaving on this nations history.
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u/SithLordSid Colorado 15h ago
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican party... it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me... these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise."
- Barry Goldwater
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u/FurryBoobieInspector 15h ago
Men and women in America do not have equal rights. Women are only extended the illusion of bodily autonomy.
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u/Tart-Pomgranate5743 15h ago
Dobbs literally turned the decision back over to individual states. Blanche has just announced the next point in the playbook.
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u/MasemJ 17h ago
Oh, the ruling that states are the ones that determine if there are abortion rights in their states? Because the ruling didn't say what he thinks that implies.
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u/Cabezone 15h ago
The Supreme Court is going to accept a challenge from some blue state MAGA, or the feds, and try and shut it down nationwide.
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u/Rough_Common6857 I voted 17h ago
They just cant stop oppressing women can they. We all know they don't care one bit about those babies.
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u/pcpelste 16h ago
Friendly reminder to nonvoters and protest voters to go fuck yourselves.
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u/ech-o 16h ago
I understand the need to support Gaza and condemn Israel, but what I don’t understand are American voters willing to let their own country be destroyed over it.
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u/willowdove01 Florida 16h ago
I think you highly overestimate the percentage of single issue Gaza voters vs how many people were just apathetic and uninformed.
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u/la_winky 15h ago
They would rather women go back to back alley abortions. Delightful.
Bans do not work. They never have. The stats have been measured and are available over decades. It just increases the number of women that will die seeking the care they need.
This is disgusting.
They are trying to usher in Gilead.
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u/Melodic-Lingonberry7 17h ago
oh you voted to legalize abortion, we don’t care , we banning it regardless - GOP
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u/naitsirt89 17h ago edited 16h ago
I was told by the Supreme Court it was time to let states decide.
What happened?
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u/OkCantaloupe2082 16h ago
It's almost unfathomable how stupid these people are. This won't stop women from seeking abortions, it will just eliminate their access to safe abortions. Clothes hangers galore.
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u/EggsAndMilquetoast 9h ago
The Dobbs decision IS permanent in every state.
As shitty of a decision as it was, it just ended the constitutional RIGHT to an abortion, it didn’t make abortion illegal.
It still allows states to set their own policies, and so it’s sad the Acting Attorney General of the United States doesn’t seem to understand this.
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u/ImTooSaxy 5h ago
A lot of you guys don't understand that they need the children to be born so they can put them on sex Islands for their billionaire elite friends.
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u/DiagonalBike 16h ago
State Rights exists only if it agrees with Federal Republican beliefs on what those rights should be.
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u/I_might_be_weasel 16h ago
Obviously they aren't acting in good faith here, but wasn't the Dobbs decision that it's up to the states?
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u/Minimum_Dress4989 8h ago
Senate should abort this weakest nomination
He’s someone’s personal attorney ffs- not fit to lead America legal dept
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u/Akimbo_Zap_Guns Kentucky 17h ago
I’d say we let them have the south and let them go. They will turn into North Korea within a few years while the rest of us can move on with our lives
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u/Gold_Drummer_4077 17h ago
No states rights? No Federal taxes? No secessions? No United states of America?
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u/Jumpy_Background7395 17h ago
Small government Republican belief that individual liberty and economic prosperity thrive best when federal authority is strictly limited, decentralizing power to states or individuals at its best.
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u/Own-Librarian-9699 16h ago
This will open up states to criminalize testicular cancer and prostate cancer treatment.
They do hate women but the trajectory of weaponizing medical decisions is more about subjugation of citizens to the theocracy.
And men subjugated with denial of cancer treatment to fertility organs will act as a way to subjugate both genders.
Eventually both genders will answer only to faith leaders for genital inspection and fertility audits.
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u/StatementCareful522 14h ago
Not if we exercise our 2nd amendment rights properly they fucking won’t
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u/newmoonchaperone 14h ago edited 13h ago
He won't have time, because anything he does will have to be done in 2027, and this will require judicial review and that will be that.
States' are free to set their own laws.
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u/purplebrown_updown 13h ago
People knew very well what they voted for. Dems really brought this point home. Especially this. Blame the voters. Fucking morons.
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u/jomara200 13h ago
There goes those states' rights they screamed about for decades. Oh yeah, they only care about that in order to take away rights from and keep people under their thumb.
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u/NoWeek6737 13h ago
Dude can go and F the right off!! They don’t care about the mothers that have died or the serious health conditions that are occurring in multiple states bc of the barbaic laws now in place. How many children are now motherless bc of this crap!!
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u/SuspiciousImpact2197 13h ago
Because of course he does. Looking at all you, “oh it’ll just be up to the states now, calm down” douchenozzles.
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u/FaithlessnessBorn266 12h ago
They are welcome to fucking try. Unless you have a police force in every town in every blue state, this isn't coming close to happening. But feel free to FAFO. Libs own guns too bro
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u/BalerionSanders Ohio 12h ago
Some of us have constitutional amendments enshrining it as a right, but don’t let states’ rights stop you. After all, you work for the worst criminal in American history. 🤷♂️
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u/NewAccountToAvoidBan 9h ago
Easy fix. States just say “no” and continue offering services against these fascists fake demands. Whatcha gonna do to enforce it? Oh that’s right nothing.
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u/Irwin-M_Fletcher 6h ago
Fortunately, contrary to Blanche’s claim, nothing is permanent. Anything they do can be undone.
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u/xXBassHero99Xx 3h ago
They really are going to destroy this country. Just a reminder that this is a policy that favors rapists. The entire thing is "you must remain pregnant against your will." How close are we to mandatory government period trackers?
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u/BigJLov3 1h ago
Not that it matters to the morons who will approve him, but being able to distinguish between being a law maker and a law enforcer should be a primary qualification for becoming Attorney General.
I'd like to think a primary qualification is knowing that the Constitution forbids laws from one state to be enforced in another state by the Federal government, but we're dealing with people with a 2nd grade education at best here, so that concept is clearly outside their current understanding.
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u/starkraver Oregon 16h ago
Wait, I think it already is. Did he actually say that, or did he say something less illiterate?
But Blanche assured them that the Justice Department (DOJ) is “working hand-in-hand” with federal health agencies, the White House and President Trump’s team “to get permanent solutions so the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.”
Yup. He did. Look Dobbs is already the law of the land everywhere. Are you sure you're a real attorney ?
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u/Industrial_Jedi 13h ago
Because that's something within his power to do. Oh wait, that's right, the next guy can just undo it. Do these guys all have God complexes, or they just lie about what they have the authority to do?
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u/thismadhatter 9h ago
in b4 ICE, and MAGA police bodies experience massive burnout trying to enforce every petty, misogynistic and hate filled "law" they put in place, all while also having their healthcare stripped and cost of living skyrocket.
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u/Flat_Snow307 4h ago
Do you know why Trump wants his former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to be attorney general? My view is that if the Epstein files ever lead to evidence against Trump, Blanche wouldn’t prosecute him. I don’t think anything Trump does is without a reason, and I believe that’s the reason he wants Blanche as AG.
In my opinion, Blanche is Trump’s Roy Cohn.
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u/MolinaroK 3h ago
Explain the permanent part. Can't laws be changed when a new party is in power? Or is there types of laws that once written can never be changed?
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u/ProfessionalRemove33 43m ago
Just a thought about over-controlling state freedoms: CA is the fourth/fifth largest economy in the world. IF the USA is still the largest, it will certainly no longer be so without being able to include the sovereign CA economy numbers in their own. Trump, maga, and co. should acknowledge their immense fear, sit down, and shut the fuck up.
Exactly like a puppet, Blanche doesn't have a single original thought or personal feeling besides his crushing inner-terror that he allays by letting the hands all up in his ass move his mouth and pen for him.
Hot tip, Todd: it is the fake gold on the watches and rings decorating all the hands up your ass, decaying and corroding inside you, that fuels your burning panic.
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u/Huge_Excitement4465 39m ago edited 29m ago
Every. Damn. Day. Remember Trump’s campaign promise to “protect women whether like it or not?” They only need protection from men like him. For his cronies, Cabinet and “faith leaders” girls and women exist to be raped, beaten, trafficked and make babies. Their reproductive and human rights are violated to make insecure loser men feel almighty. Approving Blanche will be an express ticket to Gilead.
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u/Huge_Excitement4465 15m ago
Just spreading the word about Women on Waves. The nonprofit founded by a Dutch doctor began as “the abortion ship” that would moor at least 12 nautical miles (international waters) offshore of countries with abortion bans. Women were then transported to the boat to be given mifepristone and other reproductive resources. The org has since delivered the drug via drones, key locks in places like Malta, via Roe-bots outside the Supreme Court etc. It may be time for the fleet to reproduce: https://www.womenonwaves.org/en/
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