Overturning Roe is just the start. Unwind Griswold and Loving (why not?) and we’re back to marriages becoming illegal when you cross state lines, and guilty of possession of contraceptives when you step off the plane.The momentum to overturn NYT v. Sullivan is building, but this is an issue where state legislatures can proactively blunt the harm. Pass/improve anti-SLAPP laws, and, most importantly, codify actual malice as NY state did in 2020.
— Jeff Kosseff (@jkosseff) June 4, 2022
We are a radically more mobile society than we were in the ‘60’s when “states rights” started giving way to rights for all. The Susan Sarandon response to this is that we’ll be better in the long run because we’ll take back what was taken from us.
And in the meantime, what price do we make people pay? And how long does it take to change it back?
And how many will place blame, and how few will take responsibility?
The Constitution was always used to protect the freedom of the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us. There was what is turning out to be a brief period from the mid 50's until the conservatives took back over the court where the rest of us found some protections from the wealthy and the power of the state. That is now all ending and we are returning to the previous structure. Nice while it lasted.
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