Will the right-wing Supreme Court attack free speech?

I wouldn’t be shocked if they try to reverse New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. The decision requires public figures to prove malice in defamation lawsuits. Emboldened by their win on abortion, the extremist court will attack other rights.

Clarence Thomas wants to overturn NY Times v Sullivan and allow gov’t to censor social media companies b/c originalism but also wants to disable gov’t from regulating money in elections under first amendment an impossible position under originalism. He’s just a partisan. Period.
— Eric Segall (@espinsegall) October 2, 2022

Don't forget: both Justices Gorsuch and Thomas have also called for a "review" of NYT v. Sullivan, a ruling that bolsters the First Amendment.
Autocracy comes at you quick.
— Michelle Kosinski (@MichLKosinski) June 25, 2022

Justices Gorsuch and Thomas call to revisit landmark First Amendment case New York Times v. Sullivan

She says "the Supreme Court is coming for all the free press cases next" https://t.co/kRvQkyyV1e
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 26, 2022

The potential world where the U.S. Supreme Court overturns NY Times v. Sullivan—leading to rape victims not only being forced to carry pregnancies to term, but also getting sued into financial oblivion for talking about it afterward—seems both likely and not far off.
— Daniel A. Horwitz (@danielahorwitz) June 25, 2022

Pretty soon, top editors at news outlets won't even have to send those mortifying memos shushing their staffs when their rights get obliterated; YOLOSCOTUS is perfectly happy to erode 1A protections, too.

Should we be quiet about that as well? https://t.co/O2S6zUy001
— A Shady Dame From Seville (@SorayaMcDonald) June 26, 2022

Attacks on pro-abortion protestors and journalists

I criticized the Washington Post for going both sides on violence and I was attacked by right-wingers who thought hitting people with cars was fine. Read the replies to my comment.

Here’s violence against abortion supporters today. I am not aware of violence against anti-abortion demonstrators. Don’t both sides this. https://t.co/HsFGodPSzO
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) June 25, 2022

Videos are rolling in of violence against journalists and protestors at abortion protests around the country. I'll try to flag notable ones here. (1/x)
— Tyler Valeska (@tbvaleska) June 25, 2022

Supreme Court sabotages Miranda rights

A terrible decision in a week full of them

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that police officers may not be sued under a federal civil rights law for failing to administer the familiar warning required by the court’s 1966 decision in Miranda v. Arizona. https://t.co/xhVu54ZqN9
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) June 23, 2022

Supreme Court limits the ability to enforce Miranda rights https://t.co/xxUb4GeS5q
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 23, 2022

Ninth anniversary of terrible Shelby County v. Holder decision

Nine years ago, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. This was an awful decision, right up there with this week’s trifecta of Miranda/Roe/guns.

Today marks the 9th anniversary of Shelby County v. Holder, a Supreme Court decision that cut the teeth out of the Voting Rights Act. Today, voting rights, elections, and consequently our democracy, are at risk. It’s time to #RestoreTheVRA #RestoreTheVote https://t.co/CxHwqzQ8aD
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) June 25, 2022

Nine years ago today, the Supreme Court dealt a grave blow to American Democracy with its disastrous ruling in Shelby v. Holder.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) June 25, 2022

Nine years after Shelby v. Holder, the legal decision that gutted Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, we continue to see its effects that discriminate against voters, particularly people of color.

We continue to press back against suppressing these voices.#TheMarchContinues pic.twitter.com/5uAJuxncVm
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) June 25, 2022

#OnThisDay June 25, 2013 SCOTUS in Shelby v. Holder invalidates key aspects of the Voting Rights Act, removing protections that shielded voters from racial discrimination since 1965.

What was Shelby v. Holder?

Glad you asked. #GladYouAsked pic.twitter.com/XIKBEx5BLF
— GET THEE VACCINATED OR GET THEE A TOE TAG. (@JamesMWilliam18) June 25, 2022

More polls related to terrible Supreme Court decisions

A historically unpopular Supreme Court just made a historically unpopular decision… https://t.co/ZggSlVNzvH
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) June 26, 2022

Supreme Court goes against public opinion in rulings on abortion, guns https://t.co/kV4hn7RcZx
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 25, 2022

In 10 of the 26 states that have already banned abortion or are now most likely to do so, more voters favor abortion rights than oppose them, according to a poll that has surveyed nearly a quarter million registered voters since 2016. https://t.co/6Cjb9Q7zGF
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) June 25, 2022

Of Americans living in states with trigger laws to immediately ban abortion after the overturn of Roe, only 45% realized that was the case, according to a May KFF poll. 42% were unsure.https://t.co/DzKq7LDCO4
— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) June 24, 2022

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NBC News Poll: Support for abortion rights has reached a record high, and nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade (@mmurraypolitics @chucktodd) Details: https://t.co/Z3zjwdcQwZ pic.twitter.com/4wHY83pz2H
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) June 24, 2022

The Supreme Court is expected to decide soon on overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that ensured access to abortion during the first several months of pregnancy. Do you support or oppose overturning Roe?

Support 28%
Oppose 61%

(Suffolk U./USA Today, RV, 6/12-15/22)

1/2
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) June 22, 2022

January 6 poll – majority thinks Trump is responsible

Quinnipiac poll:

64% of Americans say the Jan. 6 attack was planned, rather than spontaneous.

58% are following news about the work of the Jan. 6 Committee very or somewhat closely.

59% think Trump bears a lot or some of the responsibility for the Jan. 6 attack.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 23, 2022

According to a new poll from ABC News/Ipsos, 58 percent of US adults support prosecuting Trump for the riot https://t.co/ziiyQwkhkN
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 19, 2022

Interesting crosstab new Quinnipiac poll – whether Americans think Trump committed a crime vs. how closely they're following Jan 6 committee news:

Very closely: 69% yes, 29% no
Somewhat closely: 52% yes, 43% no
Not so closely: 42% yes, 48% no
Not closely at all: 15% yes, 71% no
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 22, 2022

91% of Democrats think Trump should be charged with a crime compared to 19% of Republicans, according to a new @ABC News/Ipsos poll. https://t.co/5IF75RVo1A
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 19, 2022

CBS News poll: Pluralities of Americans say Trump tried to stay in office through illegal means and that the Jan. 6 committee should recommend he be charged with crimes. https://t.co/6PAPAeYaZi pic.twitter.com/f5VBRI1oVx
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 26, 2022

Majority of Republicans: Biden not legitimate winner of 2020 election; people who forced their way into U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, were defending freedom (CBS News) Details: https://t.co/GSfkDQzZRo pic.twitter.com/Eo1dWHNWMG
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) June 26, 2022

Views on Trump’s criminal liability break down predictably along party lines, with 86% of Democrats but only 10% of Republicans saying Trump should be charged with a crime. https://t.co/JBjL669Eug
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) July 3, 2022

I take Thomas seriously when he talks of wanting to eliminate more rights

I take Thomas seriously. There will be more terrible Supreme Court decisions. You know the right-wing extremists want to do this and they don’t care about blowback from the public.

There's no question that the reasoning in Dobbs imperils other constitutional rights such as gay marriage, contraception, and consensual sodomy.

The Court reassures us that "abortion is different," but that difference is irrelevant to the Court's constitutional analysis. 1/
— Randall Eliason (@RDEliason) June 24, 2022

Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurring opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, fomented fears about what other rights could disappear: The same rationale, he said, should also be used to overturn rights to contraception and same-sex marriage. https://t.co/tMsDFDqmAI
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 24, 2022

The Supreme Court's opinion overturning Roe v. Wade could open the door for courts to overturn same-sex marriage, contraception and other rights https://t.co/rOFgArgazN
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 24, 2022

Abortion advocates fear access to birth control could be curtailed https://t.co/w9CByzCPgw
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 25, 2022

If Thomas is correct, wouldn't the Supreme Court's 1967 decision in Loving v. Virginia also have to be reversed, barring him from marrying Ginni?
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) June 25, 2022

LGBTQ community braces for rollback of rights after abortion ruling https://t.co/BBcx7sbn9N
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 24, 2022

"I did not know how much my same sex-marriage depended on a woman's right to choose an abortion."@capehartj reacts to Justice Thomas wanting to revisit and overturn landmark rulings that legalized contraception, same-sex marriage, after the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. pic.twitter.com/nhBuj9IUCW
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 24, 2022

Thomas, J., concurring: "In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell."

I look forward to the takes of those who yelled at people like me for worrying about implications beyond abortion.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 24, 2022

Reinforced by Trump appointments, conservatives take on controversies dear to the right. https://t.co/ylDScVGcG4
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 25, 2022

Right when I started this beat, I asked an antiabortion lawmaker when they’d be done. “Never,” they told me — because abortion is murder, and we can’t stop until there’s no more murder, anywhere.

So I believe them when they say this is just the beginning.https://t.co/gHFXJ3EjqO
— Caroline Kitchener (@CAKitchener) June 26, 2022

Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday praised the end of Roe, but sought to distance himself from Clarence Thomas' opinion suggesting overturning other rights. "These other privacy issues like contraception do not deal with the potential for life," he said. https://t.co/DSpTknuRHf
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 26, 2022

Though the court did not weigh in on cases such as Griswold, Loving, Obergefell or Lawrence, Thomas suggested that the ruling should result in it revisiting & likely overturning those cases.

That's contraception, interracial marriage, marriage equality…https://t.co/AvynTLxdKt
— Chabeli Carrazana (@ChabeliH) June 26, 2022

Should everyone calm down about Justice Clarence Thomas urging the court to jettison the entire line of privacy precedents? Yes — and no, @RuthMarcus writes.https://t.co/dyAxP67oOJ
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) June 26, 2022

Major Supreme Court 2022 decisions

There are seven cases left. I think they will probably restrict the EPA in one of them. Another terrible decision in an awful group.

Take a look at CNN's character-by-character comparison of the final Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade with the draft version leaked last month https://t.co/eVvoaM3Eak
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 25, 2022

What changed from Justice Alito’s draft opinion to final ruling on Roe

update after final rulings 6/30/22

Today marks the end of what is surely one of the worst terms in #SCOTUS history. Guns and prayer and abortion got most of the attention. But that's not all the Court did. Here are just some of the Court's bad decisions:
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— Jason P. Steed (@5thCircAppeals) June 30, 2022

Greil Marcus on Rock Death in the ’70s

This great article was originally published in the Village Voice on December 17, 1979.

Rock Death in the ’70s: A Sweepstakes

List of deaths in rock and roll (1970s)

List of musician deaths by car crash – make sure to look at the death of Steve Peregrine Took in the Marc Bolan entry

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/rock-stars-who-died-in-absolutely-bizarre-ways/vi-AA1JEXWz?ocid=socialshare

I don’t call the gun bill and infrastructure bill bipartisan

That gives too much credit to Republicans. I don’t think the bills are bipartisan when most Republicans in Congress voted against them.

Breaking News: Congress passed a bipartisan gun bill intended to stop dangerous people from accessing firearms, sending it to President Biden and ending nearly three decades of congressional inaction on gun policy. https://t.co/W1xS5UAD5r
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 24, 2022

65-34: Senate votes to break filibuster and advance the bipartisan gun safety bill, clearing the way for a vote on final passage. pic.twitter.com/DkNZl8JtuY
— The Recount (@therecount) June 23, 2022

Infrastructure vote in the House

Infrastructure vote in the Senate

Guns

House: 234 for (including only 14 Republicans) and 193 against (think all were Republicans)

Senate: 65 for (including 15 Republicans) and 34 against (all Republicans)

Infrastructure

House: 228 for (including only 13 Republicans) and 206 against (including 6 Democrats)

Senate: 69 for (including 19 Republicans) and 30 against (all Republicans)