SCOTUS Exposed: Roe vs Wade

SCOTUS has the votes to overturn Roe vs Wade. Former President Donald Trump appointed 3 conservative justices to the Supreme Court of the United States which has given the SCOTUS a conservative leaning for the many years to come. Another example how political maneuverings affect the delivery of justice by the highest court in the USA (not uncommon to the USA). A leak of a draft opinion suggests SCOTUS will reverse Roe vs Wade, one of the biggest wedge issues ‘bubbling’ in the US public space; the right of a woman to have an abortion which the Roe vs Wade decision has protected for 50 years after SCOTUS issued a 7 to 2 decision in favour of Norma McCorvey 1973.

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418 thoughts on “SCOTUS Exposed: Roe vs Wade


  1. Obama got all the Right Wing Christians agitated when he introduced gay marriage rights. Check out GP as a testimony to the extremist wingnuts.


  2. 555dubstreet

    The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment freed the Slaves … and it reads and this is coming from my standard memory bank:” All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisprudence thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State in where they reside, no State shall make or enforced any law which would abridged the privileges or immunities of a citizen of the United States.”


  3. 555dubstreet

    On the National Level stupid …. the National Level is the Federal Constitution….all other States have their own individual Constitution Stupid ….do you know that prior to the 14th Amendment that abolished Slavery in the 1860s, States like New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts abolished Slavery in the 1700th?


  4. Perhaps you can take my screen name out of your mouth and engage with other Bu posters.
    I am already conversant with the U.S. Constitution, and have a copy of The United States Constitution: What It Says, What It Means: A Hip Pocket Guide by JusticeLearning.org


  5. Not a phoney at all! I have always been open about my beliefs wrt Christianity and all other religions. I am not tethered to any religion so tightly that I lose common sense. I do not swallow everything that is written in any book that was written by MEN. My active Christian ride was fun but now it’s done. I took comfort and solace from it when I needed an “opium” boost. I am ready now to face reality head on without a crutch. I take many lessons with me. Most religious writings contain wisdom that can serve one well.

    Your shallow self, so lacking in comprehension skills would never pick up on my evolution. I quoted a hymn simply because the words could be easily manipulated and the tune was a perfect fit for my little ditty.

    I repeat, if God cared so much about foetuses He would have made that plain in the commandments.

    As to when a foetus becomes a baby and should be treated as such, for me that is when it has a fully formed nervous system that can transmit pain. When it can suffer like a human it becomes a human. By then it is even RECOGNISABLE as human. Until then, it is a just a mass of cells organised in a particular shape. When the suffering of the mother, physical OR MENTAL necessitates that the mass of cells without feeling needs to go, then it’s a no brainer!

    So funny that we have ALL MEN on this blog, those who know NOTHING of what a woman goes through, championing the cause of blobs!

    It is not an accident that MOST WOMEN, even those in America, even Republicans, favour abortion up to a certain point in pregnancy.

    At some stage a woman should be ruled to have had ample time to make her choice. Her choice must then be taken as having been made and she must live with it.

    We cannot condone the ripping of feeling foetuses from a womb even if they can be saved by an incubator.

    ALL rights have limits!

    P.S. As Cuhdear Bajan stated, ALL cells, eggs and sperm are alive. Who says conception makes them living CREATURES?


  6. 555dubstreet

    I gine school you again: the Abolitionist Movement started in the State of Massachusetts…so slaves from the 15 southern states used to escaped to free up North where Slavery was abolished in the 1700s, until Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, making it a crime to harbored a run away slave.


  7. Mantra Music: Ong Namo by Snatam Kaur

    Ong Namo means, “I bow to the Divine wisdom of All That Is.” Guru Dev Namo means, “I bow to the Divine teacher within.” This mantra helps center the practioner for asana or meditation practice and reinforces the connection to the Divine within and universally.


  8. Donna

    The Free Exercise Clause of the 14th Amendment speaks to that right, and if it is determined that denying the woman the right to an abortion is abridging, her rights, privileges and immunities guaranteed by the 14th Amendment, then there is ground for due process.


  9. Dub,

    Ain’t NOBODY going to Dompey School! Please, don’t wish that on your worst “enemy”! If you cannot stand it with Mary Jane as your companion, HOW THE HELL DO YOU EXPECT THE REST OF US TO COPE WITHOUT HER?????


  10. actually Donna I asked you about your blob..he might want to know…..but my only care is my tax money going to pay for your blob nothing more not religious not political just as a good steward of the public purse. I really dont see this as a large obstacle for women to pardon the pun …overcome…swallow problem solved.


  11. Women on Top
    Reading between the lines.. American men feel emasculated, women are running away from them


  12. Sorry Donna, correction I meant the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment…the Free Exercise Clause deals with right to worship in the First Amendment.


  13. Jeremiah was probably not even a real person.

    But… the Commandments would have been the perfect place to save the foetuses.

    Cavemen always want women to be barefoot and pregnant. It saps their strength and renders them vulnerable. Easily controllable.

    We see you.


  14. Oh rasshole, Dub! Why yuh do muh so???

    Dompey, tek my name out yuh mout! I was scrolling by when I saw my name. That triggers an automatic response to stop.

    Stopping only brings annoyance!

    STEUPSE!


  15. Divided USA Culture War
    we can wait and see how many stupid people are stupid enough to vote for Republican’s Christian Right fascism
    most sensible balanced folks don’t give a fuck about stupid yanks but yanks would say most ‘give a fuck’ instead


  16. Jeremiah was probably not even a real person.
    BUT THE JUSTICES ARE REAL PERSONS THOUGH UH LIE?

    But… the Commandments would have been the perfect place to save the foetuses.
    BUT THE GOOD LORD DIDNT THINK SO , BUT YOU KNOW BETTER THAN HE DOES, CAUSE YOU KNOW EVATING
    SO WHY DONT YOU AMEND THE COMMANDMENTS AND TELL THE SCOTUS WUH TO DO..LOL LOL

    Cavemen always want women to be barefoot and pregnant. It saps their strength and renders them vulnerable. Easily controllable.

    WOMEN CONTROLLING HERE
    WOMEN CONTROLLING THERE
    WOMEN CONTROLLING EVERYWHERE
    AND WHAT IS THE RESULT?

    JILL CONTROLLING JOE AND LOOK WUH HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON
    POOR JOE HE BREAK BUT HE CANT HOLD
    HE GOT ME BREAK…….ING OUT IN LAUGHTER
    AND NUFF NUFF PEOPLE LEAVING HIS FOLD
    LEAVING THE DUMBOCRATIC MOULD ……..COLD COLD

    BARE SPORT IN DE RUM SHOP TOO SWEET
    IM ENJOYING THE HILARITY AND THE HYPOCRISY AND THE RANTING AND RAVING

    I MISS MY CALLING
    I COULD BE DOING ABORTIONS SINCE 79
    A KING HEROD ABORTIONIST MURDERER LOL LOL


  17. My blob became a beautiful baby! He knows everything about our journey together, starting from when he was only a blob.

    How often do I tell him that his really cute face is all that saved him from being thrown out of the window! My cousin says she would have thrown him out. He was a cry baby! But only a blind woman could have thrown that face out. He was adorably cute even as he cried. I framed crying photos and keep them out even now

    My son is logical and not at all afraid of hearing the facts of life.

    And now he laughs and laughs and NEVER cries!


  18. More men are in positions of power than women. It has always been so.

    And what has been the result?

    Steupse!

    Bare shite!


  19. People who believe abortions are unethical can chose not to have abortions for themselves (or their other better half).
    Christian Taliban can fuck off and burn in hell.
    10 years after USA’s illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq they retrospectively changed their mission statement to be about protecting women’s rights.
    But, Republican Christian’s are more akin to fundamentalist Muslims and orthodox Jews with their regressive chauvinism.


  20. Okay so what month did he go from blob to baby and maybe we can agree on a time frame for a woman to make up her mind. You know that 70% of americans are against late term abortion not… no never any abortions just not late term.


  21. Scotuses come and scotuses go! They too shall pass but abortions will continue.

    What they came and found they will die and leave.

    Law or no law.

    However, the women will not be legally denied. This will be fixed before the members of this Scotus die!


  22. Around 23 weeks is the consensus but truly I would cut off just before twenty to be sure. A woman should suspect pregnancy by then. If she is one who has irregular periods she should make use of pregnancy tests on a regular basis. If some form of “flow” is still occurring, as I understand is the case with some women, it cannot possibly be a normal period and the lightness of the flow should be investigated. Pregnancy tests are cheap.


  23. If Dr GP could still recall his glory days when he used to have sex it was probably strictly in the missionary position for a couple of minutes before he spunked his load. He was no Mick Jagger in Bed.

    Star Star (Star Fucker)

    Although followers of God have been instructed to “be fruitful and multiply,” sex isn’t meant solely for procreation. It’s meant to be a joyful, intimate experience between partners. Genesis 2:24 reads, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”

    What Does the Bible Say About Sex?


  24. David,

    It’s early days yet! Give it time to sink in! Let the leaked opinion become reality! Let the extremist state laws go into effect! Let it start affecting lives!

    We will see what happens then.


  25. Donna see we agree, as most people do on a time except for more complicated events like health of mother etc. , Now how would you handle this scenario if a bajan couple .divorce …… because the woman wants to keep the baby but her husband wants her to terminate it….would they still be brother and sister.


  26. RE Scotuses come and scotuses go! They too shall pass but abortions will continue.
    What they came and found they will die and leave.
    Law or no law.
    However, the women will not be legally denied. This will be fixed before the members of this Scotus die!
    SO WHY RANT AND RAVE
    LIKE IF YUH IN A CRAVE
    WHY NOT ROCK AND MOCK
    WHILE YUH SOUP COOKING IN DE CROCK?

    MY BODY MY CHOICE
    TEK YUH MEAT OUT ME ROICE
    GP IS A POET
    BUT HE DIDN’T KNOW IT

    GP COULD BE A HEROD
    PUT IN THE AUVARD
    TEK UP YUH CURETTE
    SCRAPE SCRAPE

    OR YUH COULD TEK DE HORSE PILLS AND GIVE DE WOMAN
    ABORT ABORT ABORT AND GET RICH RICH RICH
    OR ROCK AND MOCK AND STAN POOR LIKE GP


  27. @Donna May 6, 2022 4:23 PM
    @David

    Somehow, I don’t think abortion is as big an election decider as the politicians make it out to be to swing the pendulum one way or the other.

    Sure it is a wedge issue triggering a deep philosophical debate on when life begins, what constitutes viability, morality and various what-if scenarios.

    But at the end of the day, the vast majority of voters will not put abortion at the top of their list of reasons to change their vote regardless of their personal preference.

    What I would like to see is a poll on their number 1 reason to change their vote when they compare Abortion, Economy, Infrastructure, Health, Jobs and the other major voting issues?


  28. THIS IS A SWEET LIKKLE ARTICLE AINT IT
    I’ve thought about the leaked report that suggests the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. There’s no doubt a war is being waged right now in our culture, and the overturning of Roe is a victory for those who recognize the sanctity of life. We should give thanks to God any time civil servants administer justice, and protection for the vulnerable unborn is praiseworthy. Indeed, we should rejoice over this, just like the world rejoiced when the Nazis were defeated.

    The goal of the civil government is to promote justice. Governing officials will give an account for how they ruled. They don’t determine what is just—God does—but they should administer justice in conformity to the general principles of his moral law. Whenever they do this it’s a “win,” but the Christian church should never be satisfied with winning that war. We’re not in a war for the culture, but for hearts. Yes, transformed hearts can affect cultural change—but cultural change without the gospel isn’t the church’s mission.

    The gospel is veiled to those who are perishing, Paul said. “In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God” (2 Cor. 4:4). Cultural conflicts are rooted in deeper spiritual realities (Eph. 6:12), and we should never settle for victories that leave people in spiritual bondage. I’m not saying we should be lackluster about headlines like this most recent one (far from it!); I’m saying that we, the church, should long for more. We don’t merely hope for the restraint of evil in society, but for the repentance of evildoers.

    Pray that the injustice of abortion in the United States will one day be fully abolished. May God have mercy on us, and indeed, he has. I think of the dear sisters in Christ I know who have had abortions, or once promoted the doctrine of “choice,” but who experienced the love and forgiveness of Jesus. Change for them came not through the ministers of the State, but ministers of the gospel. The establishment of just laws is no replacement for the good news that Jesus offers those who have committed injustices. The two are not in opposition, and we should rejoice over the first even while we long and pray for the second. There’s work yet to be done, and hearts which need to be won!

    IT IS CHURCH VS STATE IN THE USA TODAY
    IT IS GOD VS THE DEVIL AND HIS COHORTS
    THE COLONISTS HAVE REVERTED TO HOW THEY WERE BEFORE 17776
    THEY ARE GETTING BACK TO WHERE THEY WERE BEFORE THEY CAME OVER
    I GWINE JUST ROCK AND MOCK THE HERODS MURDER

    DRINK MY COFFEE WITH MY CINAMON ROLLS
    AND ROCK AND MOCK AS SOME GET THIER KNICKERS IN A TWIST
    AS THEY RANT AND RAVE
    I HAVE NEVER BEEAN BRAVE
    TO BE A HEROD
    AND SEND NOBODY LITTLE CHILD TO AN EARLY GRAVE

    I WAS TRAINED TO SAVE LIVES
    NOT TAKE THEM
    WHEN IT COMES TO MURDER
    I TEND TO SHUDDER
    CAUSE WHEN I FINISH MY RACE
    I HAVE GOD TO FACE


  29. “IT IS CHURCH VS STATE IN THE USA TODAY
    IT IS GOD VS THE DEVIL AND HIS COHORTS”

    what has religion got to do with Government and your beliefs of God
    you are free to follow your pages of fantasy stories

    stop bullying women who chose to have abortions
    it is not an easy option for them to terminate


  30. Critical Analyer,
    if there is one thing the average American believes in is the freedom to choose, and that is one of the fundamental reasons the majority of Americans rejected Obama Care, because of the mandates which encroached upon their freedom to choose their own care without interference from government.


  31. If Americans were truly wonderful upstanding Christians instead of big mouth hypocrites they wouldn’t be against undocumented migrants like the Trumpers,
    Europeans killed off native Americans and South America Middle America and North America was their territory although they had no concept of owning land. Trumps immigration policy illegally restricted certain people from certain countries.


  32. 555dubstreet

    Well if government is in no position whatsoever to dictate to a woman, what she ought or ought not to do with her body, then let us decriminalize prostitution in all 50 states then. Listen to you…you sound like a morally bankrupted man or shemale …or whoever you are or pretends to be…


  33. It is difficult to reason and debate with pure nonsense arguments like Dompey’s
    Don’t think about me, I’m alright.

    Decriminalising prostitution makes more sense than criminalising abortions. If a man wants to fuck he should pay for it.


  34. 555dubstreet
    Back to the classroom again because you seems to be very hard headed …. in that document they called the National Constitution, somewhere in the First Amendment, there is a concept called the Free-Exercise-Clause which simply means Freedom to and from Religion.


  35. 555dubstreet

    And I shall give you a much deeper understanding as to why the Free-Exercise Clause were introduced in this document … now prior to the creation of the Constitution and the forming of the United States of America, the Framers of the Constition lived within the 13 Colonies, and in those C 13 Colonies, they were forced to worshipped under the National religion of that specific Colony, so the Framers of the Constitution, vowed to never allowed this to happened again with the creation of the Constitution and the forming of the United States of America.


  36. 555dubstreet

    America is a work in progress with its menagerie of races, cultures, ethnicities and religions, all trying to live in unison despite the polarity or diversity…


  37. There is a big difference to what is written on paper than the reality.
    Right Wing claim USA is a white judeo christian country.
    Left Wing liberals are more open to racial mixing and one world culture.


  38. Meanwhile Republican lawmakers in Louisiana propose a bill to treat abortion as homicide. Louisiana still carries the death penalty, though it is on hold due to the unavailability of the lethal injection. Maybe they will follow the lead of another red state and revert to execution by firing squad.

    I wonder what will happen if one leaves the state to go to say California, have the abortion and return to Louisiana? Could be the fools will pass a law to charge anyway. I hope they do.

    An extremist never knows where to stop. The further they push it the faster they will get the boot!


    • @Donna

      Listened to a discussion last night where legal minds in the US opined those performing abortions out of state maybe charged with aiding and abetting. It is getting very confusing.


  39. Ah yes! The “great state” of South Carolina, reverting to the barbarism of the firing squad. Temporarily blocked by Scotus. We will soon see if they can be prevailed upon by the “too many n****s, gotta kill some” plea
    .
    Far-right extremists are trying so hard to return to the “good old days” when women were at the mercy of men and n*****s simply got no mercy.


  40. Americans might be able to go to Northern and Southern Ireland for Abortions now they have finally changed their laws to allow them.


  41. Oh dear! Republicans are now pushing for a warning to be screened before movies in which an LBGT character will be portrayed.

    There is already a warning for explicit sex and so it is not that. It is simply the portrayal of a character the likes of which exist all over America.

    Meanwhile one study states that 14% of LBGT youths have attempted suicide over the last year.

    Persecution by the far-right lawmakers at the behest of “evangelical Christians” probably taking a toll on their psychological health. Just as they thought they were making progress!


  42. 555dubstreet

    The Good Book says that like begins at the moment of conception and this I must follow, irrespective of what anyone thinks because the fact of the matter is, each and everyone of us have to take a position, one way or the other.


  43. “the fact of the matter is, each and everyone of us have to take a position, one way or the other.”

    your opinion or position should not be forced onto anyone

    personally I am against abortions for my love conceptions.. but freedom of choice is a freedom for women


  44. Your logic deserts you when it comes to religious talk.

    NOW…. If I believe that MAN, not God, wrote the Bible, how does that criticism translate into thinking I know better than God? It could only mean that I think I know better than MAN.

    If this all-wise and all-knowing God had written the Bible, and He cared so much about foetuses, He would have done better than the “I knew you from your mother’s womb” (or some such shite) obscure bit that you have to dig up.

    Why leave clues in different places where “lives” are at stake?

    Makes NO SENSE AT ALL? SO…. I learn the commandment at school but get pregnant before I read your obscure verse. Bam! I have the abortion and come across the obscure verse five years later?

    Blob done burn up in de incinerator!

    Steupse!

    Poor you!


  45. @Dompey May 6, 2022 5:38 PM

    Freedom to choose is what every living being desires, not an American exclusive. The problem is where that freedom to choose clashes with another person’s freedom to choose.

    The problem with freedom to choose with abortion is similar to the vaccine mandate debate where both can be looked at in one of two ways depending on your perspective:

    From the first party point of view as in my body my choice and no other opinions matter

    OR

    A third party point of view where your first party decision deprives another of their life or seriously threatens their quality of life


  46. the burden is unfortunately on the women to bear if having an abortion means she will not go to a hypothetical heaven up above when her soul passes on transitioning to the next stage of her journey which is all an unknown speculative concept anyhow

    it is her decision to make which should not be taken lightly and will affect her in some way

    women should not be forced to beget children unless they wish to beget the deed

    hear the doctor say
    push lady push
    another youth get born
    your daddy love your mummy and make you born


  47. Poor you!
    LOL LOL I HAVE NEVER BEEN POOR LOL LOL THANK GOD
    AND I DONT HAVE TO REASON WID NO LOGIC ON BU
    YOU ARE NO ONE OF CONSEQUENCE
    THEY ARE FEW ON BU WHOM I CONSIDER OF CONSEQUENCE
    WHEN I COME HERE I TRY HARD TO BLEND IN WITH YOU DUMMIES WHO THINK WUNNAH SMART
    ALL WUNNAH CAN DO IS TRY TO TEK DOWN
    BUT YOU CANT TEK DOWN A MAN WHOM GOD HAS BLESSED

    THE LAW AINT REVERSED YET AND ALL WUNNAH RANTING AND RAVING
    SO MUCH EVIL GOING ON IN THE USA BY ANTIOCHUS BIDEN WHO IS BEING LED BY HIS WIFE AND HIS FORMER AND STILL BOSS AND SOME FOLK ALL HYSTERICAL

    YUH REALLY TINK I CARE IF WUNNAH ABORT OR NOT
    I KNOW THAT I HAVE NOT ABORTED NO CHILDREN OR DONE NO ABORTIONS FOR NO BODY OR DONT PLAN TO
    I HEY ROCKING AND MOCKING AND DRINKING MY COFFEE WID CINNAMON AND HAVING MY LIKKKLE CINNAMON ROLLS

    AND BEING ENTERTAINED BY SOME SELF APPOINTED TEACHER AND EXPERT IN CANONICITY TELLING US HOW THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN..

    LOOK LET ME ABORT HEY DO


  48. @David May 6, 2022 6:40 PM

    @Donna

    Listened to a discussion last night where legal minds in the US opined those performing abortions out of state maybe charged with aiding and abetting. It is getting very confusing.

    That discussion sounds like lawyers trying to make easy money from some idiot foolish enough to bring a case. That will never wash because that will be like if I went to St. Vincent and committed murder but Barbados wants to prosecute me in Barbados. Barbados has no jurisdiction to prosecute.


  49. @555dubstreet May 6, 2022 5:47 PM

    If Americans were truly wonderful upstanding Christians instead of big mouth hypocrites they wouldn’t be against undocumented migrants like the Trumpers,
    Europeans killed off native Americans and South America Middle America and North America was their territory although they had no concept of owning land. Trumps immigration policy illegally restricted certain people from certain countries.

    Do you realize undocumented migrants are the modern day slaves where it has become a human trafficking business so businesses can get cheap labor because of the illegality. The days of someone going for a 2 week vacation and disappearing are long gone.

    Just look at what happened to the Haitians who got stranded here because they fell for the pay someone thousands of US dollars per person to migrate to Guyana or Brazil. I can’t understand how the Bajans immigration officials fell for that one and let them in.


  50. 555dubstreet

    I CAN TEACH YOU AMERICAN HISTORY SKIPPA…DON’T TEST ME

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    YOU CAN’T EVEN TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT JEFFREY DALMER OR TED BUNDY CHILDHOOD ABUSE AND YOU TRYING TO TEACH SOMEONE.

    A CASE OF THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND


  51. 555dubstreet

    I read yesterday this story of this 60 year old American White woman, whom had been raped by a prominent Catholic Priest when she was 15, and was impregnated by him, and had to lie to her mother about the identity of the person whom had impregnated her. And because of the time they were living in, and the potential disgraced this pregnancy could have brought on the family at the time, her mother forced her to have an Abortion, which she did, but the sad thing is that her mother died not knowing the truth behind her pregnancy or whom really impregnated her.


  52. So shoot when you ready, you buck teeth Johnie!!

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    YOU SOUND LIKE A REAL STATION HILL BOY.

    I HOPE THAT WHEN YOU WERE PEEPING AT THE YOUNG GIRLS OR YOUNG BOYS MOLESTED BY THE DIRTY POLICE ON THE 2 x 3 ISLAND THAT YOU HAD THE COURAGE TO CONFRONT THEM OF THEIR ABUSE OR IF NOT LOOK IN THE MIRROR TO SEE WHO IS THE REAL BUCK TOOTH JONNIE,


  53. @ David

    “REVIEW OF BARBADOS ECONOMY JANUARY TO MARCH 2022…” = 85 comments.

    “SCOTUS EXPOSED: ROE VS WADE,”……………

    ……… an AMERICAN ISSUE = 388 comments.

    WOW!!!!!

    Then, we question why, in Oistins, Bajans would listen to hours of Connie Francis, rather than Richard Stoute, Wendy Alleyne or Lord Radio.


  54. @David, re “Listened to a discussion last night where legal minds in the US opined those performing abortions out of state maybe charged with aiding and abetting. It is getting very confusing.” … Indeed that has been on the tip of legislative pens in some red states but as sone of the debaters would likely have noted, it’s unlikely such a law in one state would NOT be dismissed by this SAME SCOTUS !

    The conservatives love their ‘textual’ and ‘original’ interpretations of the US Constitution and I believe that Interstate Commerce it’s well entrenched and somewhat sacrosanct in that same constitutional doc . Thus despite this strong charge to overturn the abortion law it would go against the very same principles used there to restrict or intercede on what a person can do legally in NY and what is illegal in Texas, for example.

    After all it’s legal to walk around with a licensed firearm (sometimes openly) in several states and absolutely the same is grounds for arrest in others. So this lay man believes that prosecuting a person for doing an out-of-state abortion or preventing them from travelling for same will require a lot of amazing legal skill to effect.

    That said, I was amused by the “analytical” comparison to committing murder across jurisdictions … that was an interesting comparison 😎🤦‍♂️… MURDER is illegal all over of course and in US (or nations with extradition treaties) killing someone will get you arrested wherever you are – once indicted – and you will be repatriated to the place of the crime …

    And there lies the KICKER to the above. Those legislators want to enact law to make the abortion act one of ‘murder’ thus making it VERY possible to prosecute for that interstate ‘commercial’ activity!

    They must not get their way on that point (of murder) but are working assiduously to reach it, however!

    Lata.


  55. @Artax, re your 9:54 PM a truly loud and hearty LOLROFL 🤣🤣… I too was surprised by the number of comments on this topic and was even more amused when brother @Skinner himself opined on this US subject. He generally NEVER does !

    But the real laff is because much less than 85 comments were on the actual subject matter with most on the normal personal back-n-forth!

    So don’t get too bothered the Bajan material still gets lots more ole talk … but playing Bajan music is another matter tho !🤣


  56. I agree ….it is divisive issue upon on which everyone of us will be forced to take a position, whether we like it or not, because sooner are late, we will arrive at the position that this is a far greater issue than a woman’s right to choose, because we are talking about the preservation of human life.


  57. I suggest that Critical Analyzer read the outrageous Texas law that entitles any Texan to sue a doctor who performs an abortion for damages that they have not suffered since they are not the would have been father.

    The Supreme Court let that stay in effect. Now tell me again what is too stupid to stand!


  58. Artax,

    I could go and type dat de economy bad bad, if that is what you want.

    Matters that affect women’s rights concern me. I make no apologies for commenting on what interests me.


  59. It seems like some people are tunnel vision focused because they seem to focused on one aspect of what concerns them regarding this issue, while ignore the one important part, which has within it potential moral consequences.


  60. I want to know where or when are we going to draw the line in the sand, because it appears as though we are now living in a world where if a 14 years old kid does not like the rules of his or her household, he or she can now petition the court for an Emancipation from his or her parents or guardian?


  61. Donna

    NEVER mentioned anything that would suggest you SHOULDN’T ‘comment on what interests you.’

    However, similarly to how you’re offering suggestions on the way forward relative to the ‘Roe versus Wade’ issue, you could similarly offer suggestions on how the economy could be improved to being ‘good good.’

    After all, perhaps there is the possibility that the ‘powers that be’ may take any alternative policy initiatives we articulate into consideration.
    But, judging by the arrogance the ‘Yanks’ are known to often display, I doubt very much they care anything about what you have to ‘say’ about any ruling by the SCOTUS.

    But, as you correctly ‘said,’ you have a fundamental right to comment on topics that interests you.

    And, although I do not have any intentions of DENYING you…… or anyone…… of that right….. yuh dun know I also have the RIGHT to ‘call things as I see them.’


  62. re So you think that you are a person of consequence to me? Steupse!
    NOT AT ALL
    I HAVE A DECENT WOMAN AS MY WIFE
    AND I DONT COME HERE LOOKING FOR FRIENDS OR TRYING TO INFLUENCE ANYONE
    FOR YEARS NOW I DOES MOSTLY COME TO ROCK AND MOCK
    EVERY NOW AND THEN WHEN I LOOK UP FROM WHAT I AM DOING I DOES PEEP TO SEE WHAT MIRTH I CAN GET AND SAY WUH I GOT TO SAY
    I DOES TRY REAL HARD TO DUMB IT DOWN CAUSE MOST OF WUNNAH AINT TOO BRIGHT
    I DOES REALLY HAVE TO TRY HARD TO BE MEDIOCRE AND COME DOWN TO YOUR EMOTIONAL LEVEL WID YOUR ANGER AND OBVIOUS PSYCHIATRIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES.


  63. de pedantic Dribbler May 6, 2022 10:34 PM #: “@Artax, re your 9:54 PM a truly loud and hearty LOLROFL 🤣…”

    @ dpD

    And, that was the intention.

    Seems as though Google, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, ABC etc have qualified us to become experts on, American politics.


  64. ARTAX
    RE Seems as though Google, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, ABC etc have qualified us to become experts on, American politics.

    ANY ONE WITH BASIC COMMON SENSE KNOW THAT ALL OF THESE AGENCIES ARE MOSTLY ERRONEOUS AND SPURIOUS AND DISHONEST IN THEIR REPORTING AND SO ARE THE POLITICIANS

    THE USA IS LARGELY A FARCE A FACADE A SHAM AND GETTING WORSE EVERY DAY


  65. ARTAX
    BY THE WAY HOW ARE YOU COPING WITH YOUR LOST HOPE YOU ARE BEING COMFORTED BY THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT AS TAUGHT IN 2 Corinthians 1:3-5


  66. That is not what you told WURA last week when you were cussing her and wanting DDD to join in. I paid you no mind as I knew you would soon be linking up with her to cuss me again. She ain’t coming this time neither, it seems.

    You are a very sick person.

    Dearest Darling Donna. We does cuss one another regular but I will always defend her because at least she has a brain and can cogitate.

    Dah was las’ week!

    Oh dear!


  67. Critical Analyzer lives in Barbados. But because his views align with the Chief Hypocrite he does not ask him if he got his “expert” views from watching MSNBC. Critical Analyzer could comment all day and be praised to the highest heavens.

    Oh dear!


  68. @Donna

    I am aware of the heartbeat law and like it or not you must admit it is a brilliant piece of legislation on two fronts. The baby heartbeat detection is a simple way to determine existence of life. But the person who thought about allowing a third party to sue instead of leaving it up to the state’s DA to prosecute was a genius. They used the litigious nature and ambulance chasing lawyers to become their law enforcement arm.

    I wish something like that was in place for election fraud where people with evidence can sue for up to 10,000 in damages for your fraud cancelling out my vote.


  69. The disappearance and then the reappearance of Domkey is now the most pressing though on my mind.

    It is not my business, but I am taxing my brain to figure out his pattern of release and confinement. What institution gives an inmate computer access on their release?


  70. Corrupted SCotUS has taken a leap of faith into fundamentalist religion babble

    they will make / already made a decision based on blind faith of the Book of Hebrews

    with no evidence there is a God


  71. Gimme Shelter / The Rolling Stones
    Ooh, a storm is threatening
    My very life today
    If I don’t get some shelter
    Ooh yeah I’m gonna fade away

    War, children
    It’s just a shot away
    It’s just a shot away
    War, children
    It’s just a shot away
    It’s just a shot away

    Ooh, see the fire is sweepin’
    Our streets today
    Burns like a red coal carpet
    Mad bull lost its way

    War, children
    It’s just a shot away
    It’s just a shot away
    War, children
    It’s just a shot away
    It’s just a shot away

    Rape, murder, it’s just a shot away
    It’s just a shot away
    Rape, murder, yeah, it’s just a shot away
    It’s just a shot away
    Rape, murder, it’s just a shot away
    It’s just a shot away

    Mmm, a flood is threatening
    My very life today
    Gimme, gimme shelter
    Or I’m gonna fade away

    War, children
    It’s just a shot away
    It’s just a shot away
    It’s just a shot away
    It’s just a shot away
    It’s just a shot away

    I tell you love, sister
    It’s just a kiss away
    It’s just a kiss away
    It’s just a kiss away
    It’s just a kiss away
    It’s just a kiss away
    Kiss away, kiss away

    “expressing your view may make a difference”


  72. A thought just came to me- how are these damages to be assessed? People who are run over by a drunk driver have to prove damages in a very real way.

    What will be the basis for these damages? In any proper court the Defendant should end up being awarded COSTS from the Claimant on account of the lawsuit being frivilous and without merit.

    Unless the Claimant is the father who did not give written consent. Of course, he would need DNA to prove his paternity.

    Ooops! Blob dun burn up in the incinerator!


  73. How does one learn anything in life? Often we read books. Often we watch television. Now we have information overload on the internet.

    MSNBC etc. present us with a bird’s eye view. We watch Americans present their views. Real people talking.

    So Donna can listen and talk too.

    Artax wants me to comment on the Barbadian economy and how to make it better. A much more complex matter. I am no expert. I guess I should wait until I am.


  74. Under US Law
    Baby has no Legal Rights
    and is not even a US Citizen
    until after birth and registration


  75. re That is not what you told WURA last week when you were cussing her and wanting DDD to join in.
    YOU ARE MISTAKEN THAT I WANTED YOU TO JOIN IN DDD
    I DONT NEED YOU OR ANY LIKE YOU TO HELP ME MAKE MY POINT. I AM QUITE CAPABLE.
    YOU HAVE DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR DDD. DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR

    I paid you no mind as I knew you would soon be linking up with her to cuss me again. I WILL CUSS YOU WHEN YOU DESERVE IT DDD DUMMY

    I DONT NEED YOU TO PAY ME MIND. I HAVE A LOVELY WIFE TO DO THAT. DDD.

    She ain’t coming this time neither, it seems. NO SHE CANT HER WHITE SLAVE MASTER WONT LET THE BLACK SLAVE TO OPINE ON THIS TOPIC, AND SHE RARELY MAKES SENSE, AND CAN SING ONLY ONE TUNE

    You are a very sick person.
    ACTUALLY GOD HAS BEEN VERY GOOD TO ME HE HAS PROTECTED PRSERVED AND PROVIDED FOR ME AND MY HEALTH IS QUITE GOOD —–BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL

    Dearest Darling Donna. We does cuss one another regular but I will always defend her because at least she has a brain and can cogitate. INDEED EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE. COGITATION ONLY MEANS THAT SOMETIMES YOUR WIRES WORK. IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU ARE NOT MAD AS A HATTER.

    Dah was las’ week! YES IT WAS. EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE AND I AM WILLING TO DEFEND GOD’S CREATURES…EVEN ONE SUCH AS YOU. EVEN ONE OF YOUR ILK THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC DEFECTS THAT ONE CAN DETECT.

    Oh dear! INDEED
    THANKS FOR PROVIDING ME WITH THAT BIT OF MORNING MIRTH DDD
    BU NEVER FAILS


  76. Rape Murder It is just a shot away Love Sisters it is just a kiss away

    @ Dr GP representing the Trump Republicans Wingnuts
    Where is the evidence there is a God up above or down below or in front behind or left of right of you
    Put up or Shut up or act quiet and ignore the question like you always do like a throw a shade crew bitch
    Lisa Fischer – Gimme Shelter- 8 Versions


  77. Just look at what happened to the Haitians who got stranded here because they fell for the pay someone thousands of US dollars per person to migrate to Guyana or Brazil. I can’t understand how the Bajans immigration officials fell for that one and let them in.

    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    BRIBES AND KICKBACKS

    OR YOU PULLING A DOMPEY


  78. Baje…saw an article earlier this week where it’s well known that many are involved in HUMAN TRAFFICKING and just like with the minimum “monthly 3 tons of cocaine” or more and containers of guns passing through the region like clockwork., pretend they are not….it’s all well documented…kinda surprised that there was so much detail..

    “if ya carrying weak weapons you will be RUN OVER…

    “According to the old apologue, if you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will instantly leap out. But if you put it in a pot filled with lukewarm water and gradually heat it, the frog will remain in the water, unable to detect the gradual increase in temperature until it’s too late and boils to death.

    This week, when Politico reported on the leaked Supreme Court draft decision set to overturn 50 years of precedent and relegate Roe v. Wade to the proverbial dustbin of history, the nation woke up finding ourselves in boiling water.

    In truth, it should not come as a surprise.

    Not only were they successful on offense, but Republicans also schooled Democrats on defense, effectively throwing their bodies in front of Democratic choices. Inexplicably, they always seemed to be victorious no matter the electoral makeup or circumstance. In recent years, Mitch McConnell has perfected the art of bringing a bazooka to the gunfight while Chuck Schumer shows up with a squirt gun. Never has our fecklessness been more on display or had more far-reaching consequences than Republicans’ successful blocking of Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court in President Obama’s last year in office — a political loss largely responsible for where we find ourselves today”

    .


  79. Republican Christians are low life Pagans who cheat to win.
    They have no devotion in which they are a holy temple in the presence of God and just follow the mechanics of blind faith.


  80. Supreme Court closing in on leaker even as DHS refuses to investigate
    By
    Christine Favocci
    on
    May 7, 2022

    A draft opinion leaked from Supreme Court revealed that the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion is in jeopardy. However, the real story is how that leak happened — and what that means for the court.

    The Supreme Court could proceed with an investigation to find the source of the leak even without the help of the Department of Justice, NBC News reported. President Joe Biden’s administration is claiming such a betrayal doesn’t violate federal law and therefore leaves the matter to the court’s marshal.

    On Monday, Politico published the draft opinion penned by Justice Samuel Alito that argued for overturning the previous federal position on abortion. This was an unprecedented breach of security at the high court.

    Almost immediately, Chief Justice John Roberts directed the court’s marshal Col. Gail Curley “to launch an investigation into the course of the leak.” The court has upheld that this draft was genuine but has not released any further information about how it got out to the public.

    With nearly 70 people having access to the draft, Curley will likely have to interview all of them. Furthermore, it’s possible she and her law enforcement staff could comb through phone and email records as well as logs from printers and photocopiers, an unnamed former FBI official told NBC News.

    A similar leak happened in 1973 when Roe v. Wade was first decided, though it was to a lesser extent. Before the Supreme Court publicized its decision, a Time magazine article outlined how the court would ultimately rule on the matter.

    The Department of Justice has declined to move on this case, citing a slim allowance for whistleblowers. However, turning over a privileged government document to an unauthorized person is a clear federal law violation.

    Democrats think this will be a win for them as their pro-abortion constituents rage about the coming decision. As per the usual arrangement, Biden’s administration will look the other way on how this happened because it suits their purposes.

    POOR BIDEN HE CHEATED AND HE AND HIS COHORTS STILL SEEKING TO CHEAT
    HE AND HIS COHORTS BROKE BUT HE CANT HOLD


  81. “Administration officials said the Justice Department’s view, at this early stage, is that the leak did not constitute a federal crime,” NBC News reported Thursday. “Accordingly, neither the FBI nor other federal law enforcement organizations are involved in any investigation, the officials said.”

    “Some legal experts said the leak could be considered a technical violation of a federal law that prohibits giving a government document to someone not authorized to receive it. But under long-standing Justice Department practice, such actions are not prosecuted when the material is conveyed to a reporter for the purpose of making it public,” NBC added.

    The outlet also said the DOJ’s stance could change if it thought “the document was obtained through some criminal action, such as trespassing or computer hacking,” the outlet said.

    Former Attorney General William Barr, meanwhile, said it was certainly possible a crime had occurred.

    “It could be obstructing the administration of justice, the due process of justice,” Barr told SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

    “Obstruction means you’re attempting to influence, you know, through some kind of wrongdoing.”

    The draft majority opinion showed that the court had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 ruling that upheld Roe.

    “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito wrote in the leaked draft.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

    “The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions,” he added. “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion.”


  82. You lie, as usual. You said you were leaving her for me to finish off.

    I think that a person who needs to come here every day to rock and mock people who dared to “challenge” his expertise, one who carries such a grudge towards people who failed to “suitably” defer to his opinion, is the one who is mad as hatter.

    What sane person responds to these petty annoyances for soooooo long?

    Every day you come here reciting your BU “trauma”, dropping remarks at David for letting people “disrespect” you and accusing him of taking down your posts. And he does not take down the post that accuses him of taking down the post???????

    Sane people move on!


  83. RE You lie, as usual. You said you were leaving her for me to finish off.
    I CHANGED MY MIND I WILL AND CAN DO M IT MYSELF ONCE ALLOWED

    I think that a person who needs to come here every day to rock and mock people who dared to “challenge” his expertise, one who carries such a grudge towards people who failed to “suitably” defer to his opinion, is the one who is mad as hatter.
    WHAT DID YOU THINK WITH ?
    YOU WANT TO CONTROL IF I SHOULD ROCK AND MOCK NOW. BUT SORRY YOU CANT AND WONT

    What sane person responds to these petty annoyances for soooooo long?
    I DO BECAUSE I CAN
    I LIKE MOCKING AND ROCKING BU MORONS ITS FUN

    Every day you come here reciting your BU “trauma”, ITS NOT TRAUMA….ITS FACTS AND WHAT YOU CALL TRAUMA ISITS SELF ROCKING AND MOCKING
    dropping remarks at David for letting people “disrespect” you and accusing him of taking down your posts. THATS FACTS TOO AND ROCKING AND MOCKING TOO
    And he does not take down the post that accuses him of taking down the post??????? NOT TRUE HE DOES TEK DUNG NUFF OF MY POSTS . IT DOES NOTY BOTHER ME
    IT ONLY DEPRIVES THE READERS OF REAL GOOD STUFF WHICH I REFUSE TO SHARE THAT IS PERTINENT TO PEOPLE’S HEALTH IN BIM .

    WE NOW COUNTING FOR FUN AS WE WATCH TV HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR HIM TO TEK DUNG A POST

    Sane people move on! SO THEN WHY DONT YOU?
    I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO MAHY AS A PATIENT


  84. RE I think that a person who needs to come here every day to rock and mock people who dared to “challenge” his expertise, one who carries such a grudge towards people who failed to “suitably” defer to his opinion, is the one who is mad as hatter.

    IT IS WRITTEN THAT LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE
    I LOVE TO LAUGH

    WHEN JOKERS dare to “challenge” MY expertise IT GIVES ME OPPORTUNITY TO QUICKLY GET INTO POSITION TO ROCK AND MOCK AT THE SOURCE OF THE MIRTH

    people who fail to “suitably” defer to MY ACCURATE STELLAR opinion WHEN I AM NOT JUST FOOLING AROUND WILL BE SUITABLY MOCKED
    IT IS NOT A GRUDGE
    I DONT WORRY WITH THE DJ AS HE/SHE SEEMS TO BE DYSLEXIC OR APHASIC

    YOUR EMOTIONAL RANTS ARE REALLY GOOD FULL TOSSES
    I AM NOT GOING TO GO MAD AT SO CALLED CHALLENGERS AND THOSE people who fail to “suitably” defer to MY ACCURATE STELLAR opinion WHEN I CAN EASILY AND SIMPLY JUST ROCK AND MOCK THEM

    SO SEND ME SOME MIRTH
    WHEN EVER I TAKE A BREAK I LOOK FOR MIRTH ON BU AND I MOCK
    YUH WANT ME TO CRY?WHEN I CAN LAUGH.
    THE WIFE CAN ALWAYS TELL WHEN I GO ON BU
    NO COMEDY ANY WAY IS AS FUNNY


  85. Sucking Trump’s Dick
    Suck something and become the sucking — just suck the air, but forget the air and become the sucking. What does this mean? You are sucking something; you are the sucker
    Examining the content of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion and its implications
    https://text.npr.org/1096545805


  86. When the courts break

    By Garth Patterson

    Rockabye Justice on the treetop, When ill winds blow her scales will rock, When the courts break, her scales will fall, And down will come Justice, sword, scales and all. In the perpetual struggle to defend this ethereal notion of “justice”, the court is the sentinel, the constitution its armour, and principles of natural justice the standard that it bears. In every civilised society, the legal systems that underpin it are built upon a foundation infused with principles of fairness, equality before the law and justice.
    The bodies charged with responsibility for the administration and delivery of justice must, in order to achieve those objectives, adhere to fundamental and immutable tenets that tend to promote respect for, confidence in and obedience to the rule of law and the legal systems that support it. Judges, magistrates, arbitrators, and other decision-making bodies discharge their functions within an institutional framework that is unsustainable without the scrupulous recognition and protection of the rights of every citizen to equal and impartial justice delivered by fair and independent arbiters within a reasonable time.
    The Barbados Constitution enshrines the natural justice precepts of fair hearing and freedom from bias, political or otherwise, and provides that every person who is charged with a criminal offence, or whose civil rights and obligations are being determined, shall be entitled to a fair hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and impartial court or authority established by law.
    Principles of independence, impartiality, and expedition, therefore, are inextricably weaved into the fabric of the judicial robes. Those clothed with authority of a judicial nature must dispense justice in a manner that is above reproach in the view of reasonable, fair-minded and informed persons; and must seek to ensure that justice is not only uniform and transparent but also apparent, swift, consistent, and predictable.
    Malicious intention
    By a leaked draft of what will likely be the lead opinion in the case of
    Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organisation, the United States (US) Supreme Court has signalled its malicious intention to abort its landmark decisions in Roe v Wade, which was decided in 1973, and
    Planned Parenthood v Casey,
    decided in 1992. The court ruled in Roe that the Constitution of the US protects a pregnant woman’s liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.
    The anticipated ruling is momentous not only for its far-reaching effects, principally in reversing women’s constitutional rights that had been affirmed by the court and have held firm for the last 49 years, but also for the foul political stench that heralds it. The Supreme Court is populated by a 6-3 majority of justices who were appointed by Republican presidents (the last three appointed by Donald Trump), all of whom had run their political campaigns on an anti-abortion platform, and who had promised to appoint judges whose principal qualification was a deep commitment to the reversal of Roe.
    If the majority of the Supreme Court have their way, then it will be one of the clearest recorded examples of political interference in the judicial process and will deal a fatal blow to the system of justice in the US, which had already been tottering on the brink of collapse in the wake of a spate of controversial decisions involving police killings of unarmed black people.
    Bias, in any form, is insidious and anathema to the principles that underlie all judicial systems. “Equality before the law” – these words are emblazoned in stone above the entrance to the US Supreme Court. Yet, in one fell swoop, it has declared war on women’s rights, all in the name of advancing the agenda of angry, white, old, male politicians, eager to thrust their grubby fists up women’s reproductive systems with the single-minded goal of delivering their long-promised, deeply political anti-abortion spawn. It has affirmed that women (predominantly black and brown women) are less than equal, at least in the eyes of the law.
    Clear warning
    The anticipated (dreaded) ruling should be a clear warning to judicial systems around the globe that even the most revered and robust court systems can bend or break under the weight of political influence. And when that break occurs, it will open the floodgates of anarchy, because modern civilisation is founded on the concept of the rule of law, whose integrity depends on the existence and proper functioning of a judicial system that is universally accepted as fair and just. When trust in the judicial system is eroded or undermined by extraneous, political influences, then the rule of law will fail, justice will fall and mob rule, self-help and vigilantism will thrive.
    Our court system in Barbados is, unquestionably, vulnerable to such external shocks. Section 81 of our Constitution provides that the “Chief Justice and other Judges of the Supreme Court shall be appointed by the President, by instrument under the Public Seal, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister after consultation with the Leader of the Opposition.”
    The President has no discretion in the matter and, by virtue of section 34G of the Constitution, must act in accordance with the recommendation of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister must consult with the Leader of the Opposition before making the recommendation, but is, constitutionally, under no obligation to follow any advice or suggestion made by him/her. Moreover, as there is currently no Leader of the Opposition, the Prime Minister effectively has the power to direct the President to appoint a Chief Justice and any judges, without reference to any other person.
    The tenure of judges is also the subject of political determination. While judges are appointed until they attain 65 years (70 years in the case of the Chief Justice), their tenure can be extended by up to two years by the President, acting on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. As with the appointment of judges, the Prime Minister is also involved in the process of investigation of the Chief Justice or a judge leading to their removal from office.
    Misbehaviour
    If the Prime Minister advises the President that the question of removing the Chief Justice from office for inability to discharge the functions of his office, for misbehaviour, or for delay of more than six months in delivering a judgment, ought to be investigated, then the President must refer the matter to a tribunal to investigate.
    Similarly, the Chief Justice must consult with the Prime Minister before advising the President to investigate a judge for inability, misbehaviour, or delay. For all practical purposes, therefore, the Prime Minister wields almost unfettered discretion and power in the appointment, extension, or removal of judges, and this translates into significant control.
    With such enormous potential for political influence over the process of appointment, extension or removal of judges, the notion of the independence and impartiality of our judges is illusory. Without immediate reform, then it is only a matter of time before decisions of our courts will be questioned and fidelity to our system of laws will be undermined.
    To her resounding credit, Prime Minister Mia Mottley is alive to this reality and has proclaimed it as one of her goals to shepherd amendments to the Constitution to remove the level of political influence, imagined or real, that may be exerted over the judiciary and, by extension, the judicial process. Given the state of our political landscape, this should be an urgent priority of the current administration.
    Reform of this critical significance should not be left to languish at the feet of the constitutional reform committee, whose broad and ambitious remit to produce a brandnew Constitution will not likely bear fruit any time soon. We ignore the unmistakable warning sent by the imminent reversal of Roe at our own peril.

    Garth Patterson is a Queen’s Counsel.

    Source: Nation

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