I’m starting to think so. What does the Dope hivemind think about this?
This was 40 years in the making. No I do not think this was a distraction from the insurrection.
‘Let’s distract folks from the insurrection by declaring women’s bodily autonomy unconstitutional!’
Apparently these folks completely misunderstood the point of Br’er Rabbit in the Briar Patch.
It crossed my mind. If there ever were a time to believe in crazy conspiracy theories about a rogue branch of government doing corrupt things to cover another corrupt branch, now is that time.
But this didn’t come out of the blue. It’s been more than 40 years in the making. It was inevitable once SCOTUS had a comfortable right-wing majority, and a suitable vehicle came before the court. There’s nothing surprising about it happening now.
One could ask why J6 had to schedule their hearings in the middle of this bombshell, and I think the answer similarly was that there was a natural timeline at work. It’s already gone on for quite some time, and needed to show some big findings before the election so that voters could be suitably informed about it.
As government institutions start to fall apart, it’s going to appear as if it was coordinated because so many things are collapsing. Some of those things will be coordinated, but I don’t think this was one of them.
It’s a convenient incidence and may have driven the Supreme Court to review challenges to Row v. Wade now but it isn’t as if reversals of long-standing precedents by the conservatively-stacked court hasn’t been long in the making. It isn’t as if the House Select Committee hearings on the January 6, 2021 insurrection are going to lead to action, anyway, or that most people haven’t already formed an opinion about those events if they care about it at all.
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If so, only coincidentally. McConnel and the Republicans have been moving toward this since forever. It’s the reason why he dickheaded the process with respect to Obama’s pick, Garland.
(And BTW the hearings about the insurrection are not a trial.)
No, end of June is the normal time for the biggest SCOTUS decisions.
No, the SC rules this time of year. If anything, the hearings were scheduled to coincided with the expected court rulings.
I don’t think it was intended but agree it was convenient.
I just want to point out that:
- Roe v Wade was a Republican decision made by a majority Republican court.
- The court never stopped being majority Republican at any point between when Roe v Wade was decided and today - which is to say, it’s been majority Republican for just slightly past a half century.
Dobbs isn’t a Republican win against Democrats. It’s Republicans destroying their own history, legacy, and self-chosen accomplishments.
Which was the right answer, be as it may, the real lesson to take is that the average public can’t even be bothered to look up who decided the case nor who was in the majority, given fifty years to do so, and even here on this website we still have people thinking that the court has been flip flopping between the parties and that Roe was a Democratic effort, foisted on the religious right.
But those Republicans don’t count. Those were appointed by the pre-Dixiecrat invasion of the Party. This is the legacy of the Dixiecrats and not old school Republicans who don’t really exist anymore except for maybe Kissinger.
The people who voted for those people are still voting R today.
It’s worth pointing out to them that they got snowed back then or are being snowed right now and, in either case, they would do well to start double-checking between what their candidates are telling them and what they’re doing.
If you’re voting for 50 years for pro-life and your own candidates are the ones choosing the people who are keeping everything pro-choice, then you should really stop trusting what you’re being told.
Not quite. A lot of the old school Republicans have left the party and if they’re like me, they don’t vote for Republicans at all. Dixiecrats use to be Dem voters.
In states like NJ use to be as likely to elect a Republican as a Democrat before the massive change in the party. I think Reagan is the last Republican to win for President in NJ.
It’s much more likely that the Republicans wanted a blockbuster verdict to distract from the hearings. That would explain why they were upset that the vote was leaked months ago, and the recent actual verdict got far less attention than it would have without the leak. Of course, that assumes that they knew the timing of the hearings many months in advance even though they had no control over them.
But you need to be a right-wing conspiracy freak to think that the timing was deliberate. Everybody in Washington knew that the verdict would be dropped at the end of June months and months ago. The Democrats could have changed the timing of the hearings to avoid the end-of-term crush of announcements that, again, everyone in Washington knew was coming.
It’s like complaining that the World Series will be held in November right when the midterm elections are being held. Doesn’t take a Nostradamus to see that coming.
Agree with the tenor of the thread. The general fact of a long-term effort to tear down democratic progress and cement the rule of a theocratic authoritarian minority does not mean that the occasional coincidental timing of their various efforts should be seen as conspiratorially coordinated.
Perhaps it will be helpful. I’d like to see the final committee hearing close enough to the election to bring home the association that R is the party of sedition, lies, criminality and violence.
I do think it is one in the same, it is part of the insurrection from the enemy within which is continuing though many means at many levels. So it may also serve as a distraction but it has been a strategic goal to control the courts.
No, it wasn’t a distraction, it is just part of the GOP’s radical agenda. They have been establishing an authoritarian regime brick by brick for decades and it’s far enough along now that Americans are starting to notice its shape.
A deliberate distraction? I don’t think so. A most welcome and premeditated outcome long in the making that can be used as a distraction and makes the Libs and the RINOs mad? Yes, obviously.
Kissinger is one of the least bad actors now? My, how times have changed!
I don’t think it was on purpose, but I think the Republicans are real happy about it.