#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.

[boneskullravenriver]

US government: "we're banning TikTok, no more China for you."

TikTok users: *hiding a second Chinese app behind their backs trying not to look suspicious* 😁

[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

[kingxfmischief]

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[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.

[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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[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

[hmslusitania]

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

[lavenderpanic]

I cannot possibly put into words how terrifying this is. For a bit of context, there is a law in Texas which says that individuals subject to DV restraining orders cannot own firearms, and there are similar laws in states across the country (including my state). US v. Rahimi challenges this Texas law, and by extension, every law which prohibits abusers from owning firearms. If the Supreme Court decides that this law is in violation of the Second Amendment, then every single law in this country which bans abusers from owning guns will be immediately deemed unconstitutional. Given the ideological split of the current Court (a clean 6-3 split in favor of the right), I'm finding it incredibly hard to have any faith that the law won't be overturned.

I am so exhausted right now, physically and mentally, from my personal life and from the insane influx of terrifying news from every corner of the world. I'm so fucking exhausted. This isn't like a bill, where we could petition our Congresspeople. We can't vote the Supreme Court out like a President. The Supreme Court already dealt such a devastating blow in 2022 with the overturning of Roe, which impacted abuse victims in ways that we will never be able to measure. My heart is so heavy right now, I feel so hopeless for all the people around the country who are going to lose their lives because of a court which we did not elect and cannot remove. Because of a court which puts blind obedience to conservatism over the wellbeing of citizens and the historical intention of the Second Amendment. Anyone who tries to convince you that our government gives a shit about its people is either a liar or living in a fairytale world.

[timeisacephalopod]

It is absolutely wild to me that America is having a groomer panic when the supreme court basically just told Mormons they can diddle children and not report it because "religious freedom" and I'm really starting to wonder when this "religious freedom" stops if not reporting literally the worst crime you can commit is fine under the guise of God. Perhaps these people would be fine with a father murdering his daughter because she had premarital sex and that brought dishonor on the family, or are they against that only because they associate so called "honor killings" with Muslims? Because the way it's going they are ONE stop away from genuinely arguing this with the way they've allowed religion to shit all over everyone else's rights by holding the feelings of Christians above literally everything else, including CSA victims. Religious freedom is not the right to take away everyone else's rights regardless of what a Certain Brand of Christian thinks. Especially when the only religion that gets this freedom in the US (and Canada) is Christianity.

Like don't panic about groomers if you're going to make it legal for Mormons to rape children and do nothing about it, and instead of calling trans people pedos come out and saw what you mean because I'm tired of the political right couching everything they say in coded fucking language so they can hide their actual intentions. If you need to do this much subterfuge to hide your political goals you damn well KNOW your ideas are unpopular and fucked up I wish these people were even a quarter as oppressed as they think they are because then we'd actually start violently and virulently questioning literally everything about everything whenever a republican or a conservative opened their fucking face instead of only doing that to people we don't like while accepting whatever horse shit falls out of the political rights ass no matter how ridiculous or who gets hurt, children they want to "save" so bad included.

[clandestine-rabbit]

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