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A Tweet Or Two: SCOTUS Edition
RT if you agree: Women—not their bosses—should be able to make their own health care decisions. #HobbyLobby #NotMyBossesBusiness
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 30, 2025UPDATE: The White House responds to the Hobby Lobby decision: thkpr.gs/1pEzXOn
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) June 30, 2025****
All of the people who voted in favour of #HobbyLobby have one thing in common and it's not a vagina. #SCOTUS http://t.co/IG8vf93bm3
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Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) June 30, 2025Sick burn from RBG on Court and diversity. http://t.co/NWJFBuYpN1
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Irin Carmon (@irin) June 30, 2025****
Because I play golf and look this good doing it. #SoSueMe pic.twitter.com/XWOh1zMjBW
— Donna NoShock (@NoShock) June 29, 2025
Washington Post: Obama: #SoSueMe
During a trip to Minneapolis on Friday, President Obama spoke more candidly than normal about his frosty relationships with Republicans in Congress. One phrase set off a Twitter meme.
“I might have said during debate, ‘I want to raise the minimum wage, so sue me if I do.’ I didn’t think [GOP] would take me seriously,” Obama said in a speech two days after Speaker John Boehner announced his plan to sue the president over executive actions.
Over the weekend, Obama fans took to Twitter with the hashtag #SoSueMe, defending Obama.
It started with this one:
#SoSueMe pic.twitter.com/xUNltt4RYP
— sfpelosi (@sfpelosi) June 28, 2025
Then this one:
#SoSueMe pic.twitter.com/KV6VEQBYgA
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 29, 2025
"He wants to do what?" #SoSueMe pic.twitter.com/OVESiJ8UhP
— GoBrooklyn (@GoBrooklyn) June 29, 2025
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Apathy and its rewards
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that anti-abortion protestors enjoyed a special status not accorded to the normal run of protestor.
This week, before the conservative majority scurried out of town, it ruled that a) corporations are persons whose owners’ religious convictions must be accommodated, and b) home health workers in Illinois didn’t have to pay union dues if they weren’t directly members of those unions, even though the unions negotiated on their behalf.
Within a week’s span, the Court has done more to upend women’s and labor rights than any similar span in any other Court session for the past few decades.
But this was a predictable outcome of the 2000 election. Once George W. Bush was ensconced in the White House by a slightly less conservative but no less supine Court, the goal of the conservative movement has been to control the one unaccountable branch of the Federal government. Fortunately, with President Obama’s election and re-election, and with Senator Harry Reid’s filibuster reforms, the lower courts are now majority appointed by Democratic presidents. But the Supreme Court has veered so far to the Right—occasional favorable rulings notwithstanding—that it is almost a caricature of the warnings of a runaway Court those on the Left have bruited.
2:50 EDT President Obama Delivers a Statement on Immigration Reform
Also at White House Live
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Later:
4:30 EDT: The President announces the choice of former Proctor & Gamble chief executive Bob McDonald to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs
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5:30 EDT: President Obama Hosts a Reception to Observe LGBT Pride Month
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