re: #126 TarHellion

You assume that she is sane. Look at the rulings by Alito. He wants to revisit gay marriage. She is the Manchurian Candidate conservatives have dreamed of. Smart? Yes. A female? Yes. Utterly devoid of the human condition? Yes.

Willing to advance a 1789 worldview? Duh.

With her as the swing vote, the definition of the 14th Amendment is at risk, let alone the 1st. And forget about the 9th Amendment, which was Madison’s way of saying that maybe a right to privacy should have been construed.

I could see Barrett joining with Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch to overturn Griswold v Connecticut and Gideon v Wainwright.

Forget about Roe v Wade. This court will determine that life begins in the testicles. And that masturbation is punishable by death.

Both the porn industry and the erotic Romance novel industry are concerned she will be the vote to extinguish both.

A number of court cases are moving right now that argue both are not protected I Amendment speech, because laws protecting them are written vaguely and subjectively.

Conservatism has always been against free speech (see the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Comstock Acts, &c).

Should the other court conservatives rule against them, that will throw a chilling effect on all free speech: Is this porn? Should I publish it?

The problem was once defined by Penthouse in free speech arguments that no one wants to be seen as defending the rights of the porn industry, because then a conservative politician can paint you as being “for porn.”