The New York Times has quickie profiles of eight potential nominees (how they arrived at these particular eight is not known) to replace O'Connor. To my horror, they are ALL men and almost all white. The fact that they're all conservative is a moot issue. Now we can only hope for some diversity.
We could be royally screwed here. Could we? It may be naive optimism, but I still have a hard time believing that Roe could be overturned. They've upheld it twice already, and the court does not like to take back prior decisions (the whole stare decisis thing). But I just know GW is going to express-lane an activist judge to the bench and so our only hope now is the Democrats' filibustering power, which can be taken away by the republicorn majority if they feel the democrats are being too stubborn.
Vancouver B.C. is looking veeeery good to me right now.
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if things continue down this road to hell, I might be joining you up there!
we'll move in with heather, right?
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