your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Dec 22, 2023

YO! 1st WAVE BLOGGERS!

remember when early political bloggers of what y'all now call the #netroots, protested both the appointments of #JohnRoberts and #SamuelAlito to the bench?

i even co-wrote a statement for the #feminist blogger network where we were very clear eyed about Samuel Alito's history of targeting not just women in his decisions but girls and women of color.

this is one of those #ToldyaSo moments i detest saying, but told ya so

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/12/supreme-court-trump-cases-democracy-disaster.html

#SCOTUS #corruption

The Supreme Court Did This to Itself

The Supreme Court is on a collision course with itself, and it’s not clear that the justices even know it.

Slate
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BTW
why does the 14th Amendment address insurrections? it defines

BIRTH RIGHT CITIZENSHIP &
EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW

no coincidence Newt Gingrich says the 14th doesn't apply to #Trump: in theory, Trump forfeited his US citizenship on #Jan06

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4372872-gingrich-suggests-14th-amendment-doesnt-apply-today/?utm_source=press.coop

this is at the heart of the GOP's Reconstruction amendments obsession; and it's why Roberts & Alito were tasked to weaken them beyond repair: #CitizensUnion, #VotingRights, #Abortion.

and now, next up: #insurrection

Gingrich suggests 14th Amendment doesn’t apply today

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) suggested in a Thursday interview that the 14th Amendment should not apply in any modern situations, as he railed against the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to block former President Trump from seeking public office. In a radio interview on “Cats & Cosby,” Gingrich made the case that the 14th Amendment…

The Hill
Dec 22, 2023 at 3:05amWeb
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Dec 22, 2023

last thing

when you see the #GOP as a #neofascist movement that wants all the rights of plantation owners granted to capitalist controlled corporations; then you'll understand why i keep saying the right to an abortion is the right to be free from reproductive slavery.

all the major Roberts Court decisions are meant to dismantle those Reconstruction amendments; just enough to enforce the roll backs based on the 13th's:

"except as a punishment for crime"

not even with the duly convicted part.

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Dec 22, 2023

previously:

https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111621439813172429

#abortion #transgender #healthCare

Show threadDieMadColonizerDec 22, 2023
@blogdiva wait was the question "why does the 14th Amendment addrss Insurrection" a rhetorical question? If not it its a fact that people can know.
Show threadRichie EnamellerDec 22, 2023
@blogdiva @paninid Old Beezlebub Gingrich isn’t dead yet? That’s disappointing.
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Dec 22, 2023
@kroltanz @paninid he's on my list of fascist fuckwads i need to outlive.
Show threadRichie EnamellerDec 22, 2023
@blogdiva @paninid He’s like Kissinger, just another horrible PoS Republican who won’t roll over and die already.
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Dec 22, 2023

Gingrich proves that fash gets super into #history, and remain stuck in the morality of 19th century #ClassicalLiberalism.

Their idea of “a more perfect union” was somewhere between 1820 (Missouri Compromise) to 1859 (vote for secession), until #AmericanWhigs and #RadicalRepublicans ruined everything.

Their idea of a good time is ChatGPT, iPhones, and enslaved people serving sweet tea.

@blogdiva @kroltanz

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Dec 22, 2023

@blogdiva

#American #reactionaries are intent on undermining the #AdministrativeState built on top of constitutional amendments 11 through 26.

They’ve been butt-hurt for literally centuries.

I call it #ConstitutionalDerangementSyndrome.