SCOTUS Update
The Supreme Court announced several decisions today, three of which are grabbing headlines.
First and most importantly, they bitch-slapped Dumbo by invalidating his recess appointments. You'll remember that Obama tried an end-run around the Senate a couple of years ago, appointing three people to senior positions within the NLRB without the advice and consent of Congress. SCOTUS says NO!
Second, the justices were again unanimous in declaring cell phones off-limits for warrantless policemen and other law enforcement types. All nine of them agreed: pulling you over for a speeding ticket does not constitute probable cause to browse through the contents of your smartphone. Good for them.
The third decision... well, I just kinda shrug on this one. SCOTUS declared the 35-foot no-protestors buffer zone around abortion clinics in Massachusetts unconstitutional. As I understand it, clinics can still protect themselves from crazies, but they can't "annex" public property like sidewalks and declare them off limits.
Honestly, the core of this issue -- abortion -- is one of those things I really don't give a damn about. First, I'm an atheist; people are animals, nothing more. One more or less is meaningless in the grand scheme of things, especially when it's very likely to end up raised (or not, as the case may be) in a crime-ridden shithole and become a ward of the state or a corpse in few years. Which segues nicely into the fact that every Planned Parenthood clinic I've ever seen is smack in the middle of a ghetto. I guess I'm not seeing the problem.
I get that this is the Right's equivalent of the Left's Gotta-Save-The-World impulse, and that's fine. If some people want to spend their time standing in front of a building shouting down pregnant crack whores, knock yourselves out. I'll be doing something more important, like picking the lint out of my navel.
First and most importantly, they bitch-slapped Dumbo by invalidating his recess appointments. You'll remember that Obama tried an end-run around the Senate a couple of years ago, appointing three people to senior positions within the NLRB without the advice and consent of Congress. SCOTUS says NO!
Second, the justices were again unanimous in declaring cell phones off-limits for warrantless policemen and other law enforcement types. All nine of them agreed: pulling you over for a speeding ticket does not constitute probable cause to browse through the contents of your smartphone. Good for them.
The third decision... well, I just kinda shrug on this one. SCOTUS declared the 35-foot no-protestors buffer zone around abortion clinics in Massachusetts unconstitutional. As I understand it, clinics can still protect themselves from crazies, but they can't "annex" public property like sidewalks and declare them off limits.
Honestly, the core of this issue -- abortion -- is one of those things I really don't give a damn about. First, I'm an atheist; people are animals, nothing more. One more or less is meaningless in the grand scheme of things, especially when it's very likely to end up raised (or not, as the case may be) in a crime-ridden shithole and become a ward of the state or a corpse in few years. Which segues nicely into the fact that every Planned Parenthood clinic I've ever seen is smack in the middle of a ghetto. I guess I'm not seeing the problem.
I get that this is the Right's equivalent of the Left's Gotta-Save-The-World impulse, and that's fine. If some people want to spend their time standing in front of a building shouting down pregnant crack whores, knock yourselves out. I'll be doing something more important, like picking the lint out of my navel.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 14:08
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