#tw supreme court

[wackythighjinks]

Yes, this, but also if you’re in the USA, you don’t have to go back to the 70’s for gay panic homophobia. All these were things people said in the 90’s and 00’s and 20-teens too. They’re still things people say, right now, just more quietly, until they can make it more broadly socially acceptable again. The people who said all that shit about gay people are still alive now.

None of this history is old. Obergefell v Hodges, the legal case that guaranteed the right to marriage equality in the USA, was decided in 2015.

This fucking website is eight years older than universal marriage equality in the United States.

And while we are talking about it, you should know that universal marriage equality is directly connected to rising anti-trans rhetoric in the U.S.

Ever wonder why don’t you remember hearing this much seething public brouhaha over trans people before 2016? Well, for one, Obergefell hadn’t happened yet. Before the landmark decision, same sex marriage was still unavailable in fourteen states. Conservatives were incensed by the decision, claiming it violated their religious freedom to hate and legally discriminate against queer people. One man, in a largely forgotten incident, stormed the Court and interrupted proceedings, shouting that they would burn in hell if they supported gay rights.

He wasn’t the only one. The steps outside the capitol had plenty of detractors who opposed queer rights. Here is archival footage of the line of conservative bigots and other anti-queer protestors outside of the Supreme Court (as well as gay rights supporters), just eight years ago as they awaited the Court’s decision.

So it should be no surprise that in the wake of that historic decision, rashes of anti-trans and homophobic laws allowing businesses and individuals to legally discriminate against gay people were passed as part of an overt conservative strategy to combat the rights of queer folk:

"You're seeing an explosion of religious liberty legislation in the wake of Obergefell," says Mat Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel, a conservative law firm and think tank involved in the effort. He calls it "just the tip of the iceberg of what we will see as Obergefell begins to settle on the rest of the country.” [Link]

The fight for queer people was never over with the small recognition of so-called same-sex marriage. Obergefell himself acknowledged this immediately after he won his case, stating: “We will have to continue the fight.” Organizations who supported the Obergefell decision also warned that conservatives would find new ways to discriminate against all of us—a people whose existence they hate and would see eradicated from the earth if they could.

I urge you to remember this the next time you see some TERF-adjacent “centrist” claiming that trans people are asking for too much or are too loud or need to wait their turn. The people who stood outside the Supreme Court less than a decade ago with these signs are just waiting for the chance moment to make all queer people’s existence illegal.

Cowards who are willing to excise trans people from public life in order to cling to whatever small crumbs they’ve been thrown in the last decade are just carving their own epitaphs.

The indoctrination never stops.

Conservatives need a minority target to keep their followers focused/unified on hate. As the followers obsess on hate, their lives/emotions are much easier to manipulate.

Conservatives always vow to restore the country to some distant past that never existed.

It's an endless loop of failure.

[mysharona1987]

[destielmemenews]

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[dhaaruni]

It was the medical examiner, not the doctors at the hospital, who removed Lillian from Crain’s womb. His autopsy didn’t resolve Fails’ lingering questions about what the hospitals missed and why. He called the death “natural” and attributed it to “complications of pregnancy.” He did note, however, that Crain was “repeatedly seeking medical care for a progressive illness” just before she died. Last November, Fails reached out to medical malpractice lawyers to see about getting justice through the courts. A different legal barrier now stood in her way. If Crain had experienced these same delays as an inpatient, Fails would have needed to establish that the hospital violated medical standards. That, she believed, she could do. But because the delays and discharges occurred in an area of the hospital classified as an emergency room, lawyers said that Texas law set a much higher burden of proof: “willful and wanton negligence.” No lawyer has agreed to take the case.

[aspiringbelle]

The system is breaking.

We need real change.

oh good!! last night wasnt bad enough, we get to wake up to scotus decisions this morning!! allowing the criminalization of homelessness, further gutting environmental regulations, and siding with the goddamn insurrectionists.

[billygoat26]

I’m gonna throw a fucking building at someone…

TRUMP SHOULD NOT HAVE PRESIDENTIAL FUCKING IMMUNITY FOR THE SHIT HE DID!!

Oh my fucking god… if he gets re-elected I swear to all that is holy-

I think I’d rather die than have to live with the shit he’s gonna do…

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canada’s top court has ruled that applying mandatory minimum sentences to the offence of child luring is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of Canada found in a six-to-one decision released Friday that such sentences violate the Charter-protected right that guards against “cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.” “The mandatory periods of incarceration apply to such an exceptionally wide scope of conduct that the result is grossly disproportionate punishments in reasonably foreseeable scenarios,” the ruling said.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[rapeculturerealities]

U.S. v. Rahimi: Guns Rights and Domestic Violence Converge in Latest Supreme Court Case — ProPublica

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in a pivotal firearms case that could have profound implications for how police and courts deal with domestic violence.

The question: Should people who are placed under domestic violence protection orders also lose access to their guns?

For many victim advocates, the answer is obvious. Women are five times more likely to be killed in a domestic violence incident when the abuser has access to a gun. Advocates argue that the gun restrictions tied to such orders are among the most powerful tools for domestic violence victims and that without them, more people will die.

[kingxfmischief]

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[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

1-(800)-273-8255

[skitskatdacat63]

Lmfao not my one guy friend saying "at least this will all be over in four years." You think there won't be long term consequences after a Trump presidency?????? God.

[neiptune]

land of the free and home of the brave especially when it comes to making sure this one specific jackass is above the law always <3

[mysharona1987]

Like this woman legitimately looked at Aunt Lydia and thought: Career Goals.

[hmslusitania]

Shout out to the email from the department of education that said very directly that the Supreme Court is full of shit????

[destielmemenews]

"Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion for a 6-3 court. The court’s liberal wing, led by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissented.

Trump had pushed for the ban in response to a 2017 mass shooting that killed 58 people at an outdoor music festival in Las Vegas. Bump stocks allow a shooter to convert a semi-automatic rifle into a weapon that can fire at a rate of hundreds of rounds a minute."

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[dykeboyy]

I'm kind of pissed at how few people are even talking about the fact that race based affirmative action policies were struck down in the US only two days ago. I'm kind of pissed at how few people are even talking about the fact that SCOTUS is now arguing in favor of legacy admissions, which literally existed to limit the number of POC able to be admitted into colleges/universities per year. SCOTUS wants to pretend to make college admissions "not see color," while upholding white supremacist systems that will make it much easier to discriminate against POC and much easier to favor white people when admitting students.

They're basically trying to fully reinstate segregation at this point with their promotion of Jim Crow relics and I haven't seen a single white person fucking talking about it.