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October 8, 2024

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Texas Hospitals Cannot Be Compelled to Provide Emergency Abortions

In another blow to abortion rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday
Texas doctors cannot be compelled to perform emergency abortions if the
procedure is deemed to violate Texas's abortion ban. The far-right-led
Supreme Court, which overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, rejected the Biden
administration's invocation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor
Act, which requires health providers to intervene if a patient's life is
at risk.

#abortion #court #supreme-court #scotus #us-supreme-court #emergency-abortions #emergency-medical-treatment #texas

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October 8, 2024

Georgia Supreme Court Reinstates 6-Week Abortion Ban

Georgia's Supreme Court reinstated the state's six-week abortion ban
Monday, one week after a lower court struck down the ban, ruling it
unconstitutional. Alice Wang from the Center for Reproductive Rights
said, "This ban has already killed multiple women, as the state's own
maternal mortality review committee found last month. Yet Attorney
General Carr rushed to court to reinstate this ban, ensuring more lives
will be lost."

#abortion #court #supreme-court #georgia #abortion-ban #six-week-abortion-ban

Why is the ACLU Representing the NRA Before the US Supreme Court?

The ACLU has always stood up for free speech – no matter the speaker.

If the bad guys rights can be violated, so can ours.

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/why-is-the-aclu-representing-the-nra-before-the-us-supreme-court

For more than 100 years the American Civil Liberties Union has defended the right to free speech – no matter the speaker, and regardless of whether we agree with their views.

#nra #free-speech #american-civil-liberties-union #aclu #scotus #supreme-court #supreme-court-of-the-united-states

Tom the Dancing Bug

#abortion #human-rights #constitution #person #persons #supreme-court #womens-rights #slavery #fourteenth-amendment #civil-rights #ruben-bolling #tom-the-dancing-bug #scotus

Tom the Dancing Bug

#abortion #human-rights #constitution #person #persons #supreme-court #second-amendment #firearms #right-to-bear-arms #ruben-bolling #tom-the-dancing-bug #scotus

Stella Moris statement on Julian Assange’s Supreme Court appeal

https://assangedefense.org/press-release/stella-moris-statement-on-julian-assanges-supreme-court-appeal/

#stellamoris #julianassange #wikileaks #assange #press-release #statement #supreme-court #appeal #humanrights #extradition #us #uk #freeassange

Supreme Court of the United States: Innocence doesn't matter.

You can't be freed just because you're innocent.

Herrera v. Collins

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1992/91-7328

Question\
\
Was an individual sentenced to death for murder, Leonel Herrera, entitled to federal habeas corpus relief under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when his petition was based on a claim of actual innocence without an accompanying federal constitutional violation?

Conclusion\
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No. In a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the Court held that the rejection of Herrera’s petition did not constitute cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. Chief Justice Rehnquist concluded that evidence of Herrera’s actual innocence was not relevant to his petition for a writ of habeas corpus absent some constitutional violation by the state of Texas.

As long as the proper procedures were followed to punish you, that's justice (according to this decision). Guilt or innocence is irrelevant. It is Constitutional to imprison someone you believe is innocent, as long as the proper procedures are followed.

#scotus #supreme-court #justice #injustice #shame #disgrace #usa #america #texas