How Much More Radical Could the Supreme Court Become? Look to the Fifth Circuit.
Imagine Obamacare is dead and millions of Americans have lost health coverage. Abortion is illegal nationwide, pills to end pregnancies are off the market, and doctors wait until the mother’s death is imminent before attempting lifesaving care. Domestic abusers freely carry guns and... #press
How much more radical could the Supreme Court become? Look to the Fifth Circuit.
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"👉How Much More Radical Could the Supreme Court Become? Look to the Fifth Circuit.
Meet the power-grabbing Trump judges who are forging MAGA justice.👈
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"...This is neither the outer bounds of what this radical court will do, nor the end of its impact on all Americans. It is the beginning...
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals—transformed by appointees of former President Donald #Trump—has...
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...issued decisions greenlighting every one of these eventualities. While some were put on ice by the #SupremeCourt, others remain in effect in #Texas, #Louisiana, and #Mississippi, the three states the circuit covers.
In those states, women have no right to end pregnancies that threaten their health, the enforcement powers of dozens of federal agencies are in doubt, and protest organizers are vulnerable to legal retribution. Other...
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...5th Circuit decisions, from a ruling hamstringing the SEC and similar agencies to one legalizing bump stocks—the device that enabled a lone shooter in Las Vegas to kill 60 people and injure more than 500 in just 10 minutes—are now the law of the land..."
👉I'd say, #TheHandmaidsTale's #RepublicOfGilead appears to me less fictional by the day.👈
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How much more radical could the Supreme Court become? Look to the Fifth Circuit.
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