If you are discussing your abortion and you live in a place where abortion is now essentially illegal, please remember to speak only to people you trust and remember to use end-to-end encrypted comms with disappearing messages turned on.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/10/texas-abortion-lawsuit/
@jdavidnet @evacide The answer is probably “when a sufficient number of SCOTUS is replaced” so like 50 years?
The courts or congress will not save us or help us. We need to do that ourselves.
I’ve been giving SCOTUS a lot of thought, and I think we should keep the life long service aspect, but have congress add one every year (or every other year).
This would favor parties adding Judges that are younger and will live longer.
I think this will remove the specialness of a presidential term having more or less possible Judges to add and will give every President 4 judges to pick, and every congress (2 year) two judges.
Pete was well intentioned but his proposal favored a 2 party system, and would create future deadlock.
Making it a yearly obligation wouldn’t require changing the constitution, just US Law. It would also make it a yearly obligation and tradition, and might lower level of bipartisan brinkmanship.
If an average SCOTUS judge serves 40 years, and there are 40 judges, then each judges vote is only 2.5% of the vote, and a presidents influence on the court is only 10% per term.
This should tend judges younger, and closer to the demographic mean age. It might skew judges female as they tend to live longer, and it might depoliticize each judge as the political fallout from drama might exceed the political win to push one through.
Predicting how 9 judges might be possible, but predicting 40 judges is going to be a lot harder.
Also having 40 judges added over 40 years would really average out each years politocal whims. It would drive SCOTUS to being a very slow mover, making congress and the presidency faster at changing law interpretation which is what both democrats and republicans want right now, further depoliticizing SCOTUS.
I recommend using Signal Messenger 🙂 for end to end encryption of messages, calls, and files
@evacide I am haunted by this document from an episode of Crash Course American History.
John Green has to figure out who wrote an unknown document. This one, in the episode on slavery, opens with "Since I have been in the Queen's dominions, I have been well contented, yes well contented for sure... That all are born free and equal. This is a wholesome law, not like the Southern laws which puts man made in the image of God on level with brutes..."
@evacide The hint was in the lede. The Queen's dominions. It's Canada. He's in Canada. He escaped to Canada.
I live in Canada. I think of these women, coming to Canada, evading Southern laws.
So much for life, liberty, and the pursuit of freedom
@evacide Also, to avoid revealing your search history…
1. Use incognito or private mode on your browser and stay logged out — to protect against someone who gets access to your device
2. Turn off server-side search history and delete any compromising searches (e.g. https://myactivity.google.com/product/search/ ) — to protect against someone subpoenaing your data from the server
(To be extra careful, you could also use a paid VPN — to protect against your IP address being revealed in other subpoenable places.)
I’m hoping the #ACLU will take up this case.
@evacide Also if you use a period tracking app, make sure it doesn't share the data. The German app Drip and the Spanish app Euki are both privacy friendly period tracking apps (available in English):
#womenshealth #womensrights #reproductivehealth #menstruation #privacy #dataprivacy
@AimeeMaroux @evacide Better yet, if you have an iPhone then use Apple Health as Apple's privacy policy is airtight and there's nothing to download.
Ask yourself: how are those third-party cycle tracking apps paying their bills? Development and hosting are not free. Remember, if you are not paying, you are what is being sold.
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