• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    And we all know the Supreme Court never reverses a decision. That’s why abortion is still legal nationwide.

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        I’m pretty sure the Supreme Court requires neither to reverse a decision. What with other decisions that weren’t Roe taking a lot less than 50 years and what with their not caring about popular opinion.

        Is this the first time you’ve heard of them?

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          Reversing Roe took 50 years because it took that long to get enough conservative judges appointed. It could not have happened sooner.

          In my lifetime, Democratic presidents have only been able to appoint 5 justices to the court compared to 15 for Republican presidents.

          If we want to change the gun rulings, that needs to be reversed, which should only take, oh, another 50 years or so.

          https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/members_text.aspx

          Burger, Warren Earl - Nixon
          Blackmun, Harry A. - Nixon
          Powell, Lewis F., Jr. - Nixon
          Rehnquist, William H. - Nixon
          Stevens, John Paul - Ford
          O’Connor, Sandra Day - Reagan
          Scalia, Antonin - Reagan
          Kennedy, Anthony M. - Reagan
          Souter, David H. - Bush, G. H. W.
          Thomas, Clarence - Bush, G. H. W.
          Ginsburg, Ruth Bader - Clinton
          Breyer, Stephen G. - Clinton
          Roberts, John G., Jr. - Bush, G. W.
          Alito, Samuel A., Jr. - Bush, G. W.
          Sotomayor, Sonia - Obama
          Kagan, Elena - Obama
          Gorsuch, Neil M. - Trump
          Kavanaugh, Brett M. - Trump
          Barrett, Amy Coney - Trump
          Jackson, Ketanji Brown - Biden

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        Took 13 years to undo prohibition, which unlike abortion and gun rights, was based on a clear and direct constitutional amendment with no arguments about “framers intent” or changes to technology/interpretations of rights over time.

        This entire “50 years of cultural shift and overcoming supreme Court decisions” is straight bullshit.

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          We don’t have the same environment now that we did then. We can’t currently get an amendment to do ANYTHING at this point. Everything is too divided.

          290 votes in the House, that couldn’t get 217 to decide their own leadership.

          67 votes in the Senate, that can’t get 60 to over-ride a filibuster.

          38 state ratifications where 25 states can’t admit Joe Biden won the last election.

          It’s untenable, even on topics lots of people can agree on, like, say, term limits for Supreme Court Justices, or barring convicted felons from public office.

          And those should be the uncontroversial topics…