leftfemme.bsky.social
HBTFD! 🇳🇬. Civil rights lawyer. Lover of politics, social justice, and college football. A bit of they, a dash of them. Views are too cool to represent my employer.
👤 Joined on 13 May 2023
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@leftfemme.bsky.socialJan is CBS’s legal correspondent. She gave the puff piece interview to Alito on his book. She’s criticized people who criticize the Court too much / in certain ways. She’s a perfect case study in why some mainstream/legacy media press coverage of SCOTUS is broken, bad, and misleading.
Show Postyeah, it's a media rule of thumb that GOP gains have deep ideological significance whereas Dem gains simply don't require interpretation of any kind, they're understood as fleeting and something of a fluke that will untimately give way to the natural order of things sooner or later
Show PostI know a couple folks are yelling at this guy but he's right. Forty-five (45) states have conscience clauses permitting doctors to refuse to provide abortion care based on religious or moral grounds. Forty-five. (Per the Guttmacher Institute.)
Show PostSCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
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