The Kansas Abortion Vote Is Why Republicans Need the Supreme Court

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Conservatives know their pet policies are unpopular. But through gerrymandering, voter suppression, the filibuster, and a federal judiciary packed with conservative ideologues, Republicans aim to ensure they don't actually have to worry about what people want.

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The Kansas Abortion Vote Is Why Republicans Need the Supreme Court
Anti-choice lawmakers in Kansas just learned the hard way that their agenda is far less popular with voters than they imagine.
11:18 AM · Aug 8, 2022

https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/kansas-abortion-vote-supreme-court/

In Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the upscale D.C. steakhouse refugee asserts that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade isn’t a raw exercise of judicial power, but a noble, principled return to democratic ideals. “The Constitution does not take sides on the issue of abortion,” he wrote. “The Court’s decision today restores the people’s authority to address the issue of abortion through the processes of democratic self-government.”

This week, voters in Kansas took part in a little democracy and told Brett Kavanaugh to shove it. By a resounding 59-41 margin, they rejected a ballot initiative that would have amended the state’s constitution to allow for more restrictive abortion laws, including a possible outright ban on abortion. Kansas has not gone for a Democratic presidential nominee since 1964, and Trump won it by 15 points in 2020. But as this vote shows, the struggle for civil rights is more complicated than Electoral College outcomes.

“I don’t believe that [Kansas] is this deep red state. I believe that Kansas is a deeply oppressed state,” says Melissa Stiehler, who worked with Vote Neigh, an organization of young people who opposed the amendment. “The state legislature doesn’t do what is popular to the people of Kansas.”

Well before Dobbs, Kansas lawmakers had passed a number of restrictions on abortion, including a ban on almost all abortions after 20 weeks and the requirement that a pregnant person get a pre-abortion ultrasound. But in 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that further restrictions passed by the state legislature were illegal on the basis that the state constitution protected the right to an abortion. Republican lawmakers and anti-abortion interest groups responded to the decision by proposing a constitutional amendment to overrule it.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Yes the GOP must get white christian minority rule.

It is the only way to install their diabolical agendas.

[wcmagumba]

2. As nauseating as it would be maybe we should infiltrate the RW evangelical churches and try...

to change them from within...?