Checkmate? Abortion Rights Amendment Puts Florida In Play

The Florida Supreme Court ruled yesterday one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans can take effect in a month.

But the court also ruled voters can change that in November by passing an abortion rights amendment to the state constitution.

It is tough to imagine a more motivating circumstance for freedom voters: Take away a right but give them the power to restore it.

Biden lost Florida by 360,000 votes in 2020. More than 1 million signed petitions for the abortion rights amendment now going on the ballot, including 800,000 Democrats.

With that math, and considering Republicans have gone down in every election where abortion was on the ballot since the Dobbs decision, the Biden campaign has every reason to take a shot at Florida — a state Republicans have to win to win the Electoral College.

At a minimum the much better funded Biden campaign can force Trump to spend precious money in Florida.

NBC News: JOE BIDEN campaign says it now sees Florida as ‘winnable’ in 2024. In a memo first shared with NBC News, President Joe Biden’s campaign said it believes the issue of abortion will be key in helping make inroads in the Republican-dominated state.

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39 thoughts on “Checkmate? Abortion Rights Amendment Puts Florida In Play”

  1. craig, thanks for some good campaign news for a change, but first let’s send in the clowns:

    Stephen dishes on his conversation with Presidents Biden, Obama and Clinton, former president Trump honored Easter by lashing out at his enemies, and the White House press pool was put on notice for lifting too many souvenirs from the president’s airplane.

  2. Jimmy went to Japan with his family on vacation and was shocked to discover that America is a filthy disgusting country, then he celebrated Easter in the middle of the night with his kids, President Biden and the First Lady hosted the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House, Trump posted 77 times on Truth Social yesterday where he compared himself to Jesus, his daughter-in-law Lara Trump dropped a new album on the same day as Beyonce, our nation’s newscasters can’t believe it’s April, and Cousin Micki gets pranked by Billy Crystal for April Fools’ Day.

  3. Jon Stewart tackles the AI revolution and how its creators are promising a better future while building technology to make human workers obsolete.

  4. no, not those guys but those GOPer clowns in the house and their leader.

    Mike Johnson Of Louisiana Elected Speaker Of The House - Foreign ...

    New York Times:

    Johnson Outlines Plan for Ukraine Aid; House Could Act Within Weeks
    The G.O.P. speaker’s proposed conditions for sending a fresh infusion of military assistance to Kyiv are the strongest sign to date that he plans to defy critics in his own party and push through the aid package.

  7. Pray tell, are there enough voters in Florida below age 75 to carry this amendment? 

  8. https://www.newsweek.com/texas-gop-meeting-death-penalty-women-abortions-1884950

    “Texas GOP Meets Group Suggesting Death Penalty for Women Who Seek Abortions”
     
    “Many of our elected officials were in attendance. Including school board, constables and at least one county commissioner. Not one person pushes back or questions an agenda that advocates women possibly receiving the death penalty for abortion, including pregnant minors.”
     
     
    That might get some traction with voters in Texas, too, but it’s not common knowledge.  Abortion is the third rail on local news; nobody wants to touch it. 

    Not sure who owns copyright on the video, but it should be used in an ad.

  9. Ivy….   maybe not enough under 75 to care about themselves….  but I bet they do have granddaughters.
     
    Wasn’t it Tim Russert who proclaimed the election hung on Florida, Florida…

  10. So it keeps on coming … https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/01/trump-judges-attacks-trials/

    TRUMP RAMPS UP ATTACKS ON JUDGES, SPARKING CONCERNS AS CRIMINAL TRIAL NEARS

    THE JUDGE OVERSEEING THE CRIMINAL TRIAL THAT WILL START APRIL 15 ISSUED AN EXPANDED GAG ORDER LATE MONDAY IN RESPONSE TO SOME OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S RHETORIC

    Former president Donald Trump is ramping up efforts to disparage judges overseeing his criminal and civil cases — reprising a long-standing strategy as a high-profile trial draws near and prompting growing concerns from legal experts and an expanded gag order late Monday.

    The presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s approach, part of a broader election-year attempt to portray the judicial system as weaponized against him, was evident in a slew of attacks over the weekend. Such broadsides, which Trump has often lobbed without evidence for his claims, have raised worries about the safety of judges and threaten to undermine faith in the court system, some legal experts said Monday.

    Trump’s personal attacks against the daughter of the New York judge overseeing a hush money case prompted the judge to expand an existing gag order to include his family and the district attorney’s family.

    On social media over the weekend, Trump wrote that New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing his New York hush money criminal trial that is scheduled to start April 15, “should be immediately sanctioned and recused.” The attack came days after Trump personally attacked Merchan’s daughter, calling her a “Rabid Trump Hater” and suggesting that the judge was “compromised” because of her work for a Democratic-aligned digital marketing company.

    Trump called New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who ordered a nearly half-billion-dollar judgment against Trump, “corrupt” and claimed that his credibility had been “shattered.” And in a lengthy post on Easter Sunday, Trump wrote in all caps: “Happy Easter to all, including crooked and corrupt prosecutors and judges that are doing everything possible to interfere with the presidential election of 2024, and put me in prison.”

    Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg alluded to Trump’s repeated attacks last week in asking Merchan to confirm whether the limited gag order he had imposed on Trump bars the former president from attacking the judge’s family. On Monday, he submitted an additional court filing citing Trump’s most recent public statements and reiterating his request that the judge clarify if the gag order applies to his own family members — and expand it if it doesn’t. The new ruling from Merchan came hours later and alluded to the attacks on his daughter.

    “It is no longer just a mere possibility or a reasonable likelihood that there exists a threat to the integrity of the judicial proceedings,” Merchan wrote. “The threat is very real. Admonitions are not enough, nor is reliance on self-restraint.”

    In their own Monday filing, Susan Necheles and Todd Blanche, Trump’s lawyers, argued that Trump has clear rights protecting his speech as a citizen and candidate.

    “Under these circumstances, President Trump must be permitted to speak on these issues in a manner that is consistent with his position as the leading presidential candidate and his defense, which is not intended to materially interfere with these proceedings or cause harm to anyone,” the filing said.

    Judge Merchan disagreed.  Another “Sit down and shut up” order for Dumbass.

     

  11. Wasn’t it Tim Russert who proclaimed the election hung on Florida, Florida…

     
    Renee, that’s what has me concerned. Just like Texas “ain’t like it was” when I lived there, neither is Florida. 

    (We still have nieces and great-nieces who live, work, and go to school in Florida.)

  13. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/erdogan-vows-make-amends-after-humbling-election-loss-turkey-2024-04-01/
    “President Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Monday to correct any mistakes that led to his party’s defeat in Turkey’s local elections where the opposition capitalised on economic woes and alienated Islamist voters, casting uncertainty over his reform plans.”

    ~Because that’s what authoritarians who’ve held power for two decades do, “correct mistakes.”~
     
     
    “Sunday’s vote marked Erdogan and his AK Party’s (AKP) worst defeat in more than 20 years in power, revitalising the opposition party and strengthening Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu‘s standing as the president’s main rival.”
     
    I like to think that his trip to Mar-El-Ego tainted him.  Everything tRUMPsky touches dies.

  15. The only problem is that the 6 week limit on getting an abortion will be in effect until November.  A lot of women could die before sanity resumes.

     

  16. If the total destruction of the Gaza hospital wasn’t enough, the humanitarian World Kitchen deaths should spell the end of Netanyahu.  

  19. Have to wonder who remembers what Guy Caballero was the parody of?  I am pretty sure few of Gen Z would know.
    I know I learned when rented a couple of childrens VHS videos for my children to watch.  Guess what was in the cases.  Yeah.  That was way back in the beginning of video stores and VHS and Beta were the formats.

  23. He has used the same line about white, suburban women before.  

    Only white nationalists still believe him. 

    White nationalists are not Christians.

    They would deport Jesus.  

    They would let him starve, leave him unhoused, and tell him to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
     

    ps – Melania, Your husband thinks you and your parents are animals. Ivanker, Your daddy thinks your mom was an animal. Oh, what? Oh, just the non-white ones. Gotcha.

  26. He’s vile and disgusting and the officers lined up behind him should be stripped of their badges.

  27. they’re not humans, they’re animals

     
    …as racist as it gets.  At least the tall guy had on offended look, the other meatheads on stage are wondering what they’re having for lunch

  28. They would deport Jesus. 

    They’d try to trap Mary in razor wire to make sure Jesus couldn’t be born here

  29. https://www.yahoo.com/news/largest-fresh-egg-producer-us-204730528.html

    “The largest producer of fresh eggs in the United States said Tuesday that it has stopped production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens there.”
     
    “…approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection, avian influenza, was found at the facility in Parmer County, Texas.”

    “The announcement by Cal-Maine comes a day after state health officials said a person had been diagnosed with bird flu after being in contact with cows presumed to be infected, and that the risk to the public remains low.”
    “The human case marks the first known instance globally of a person catching this version of bird flu from a mammal, federal health officials said.”
     
    PBS did a show about the increase of human illness as we increased farming of animals.

  30. If they think it’s OK to dehumanize immigrants, then it must be OK to dehumanize white nationalists and call them soulless monsters. 

  31. ain’t we all

    i’m just paraphrasing your would-be King, conservatives 🤷‍♂️

  33. Dumbass is supposed to be in Grand Rapids tonight. Not a long drive for me, but I’m staying away from there. Sorry to those who wanted me to pick them up a Bible tonight. I’m sure Pete Hoekstra will be there.

  34. Corey, kudos to your use of Dumbass. Hope I had a hand in that. 

    As a soulless monster, I take offense to being grouped with white nationalists. 

    BTW, Israel’s leadership (Nettypoo) and the brass collectively, is on thin ice. What a load of horseshit.

  35. Author of the Day 
    John Barth 
    THE SOT-WEED FACTOR
    GILES GOAT-BOY (or The Revised New Syllabus)

  36. Looks interesting. Could keep me busy for a while.
     

    A satirical epic set in the 1680s–90s in London and colonial Maryland, the novel tells of a fictionalized Ebenezer Cooke, who is given the title “Poet Laureate of Maryland” by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and commissioned to write a Marylandiad to sing the praises of the colony. He undergoes adventures on his journey to and within Maryland while striving to preserve his virginity. The complicated Tom Jones–like plot is interwoven with numerous digressions and stories-within-stories, and is written in a style patterned on the writing of 18th-century novelists such as Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and Tobias Smollett.

    Sot-weed” is an old term for the tobacco plant. A “factor” is a middleman who buys something to resell it.

     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sot-Weed_Factor_(novel)

  37. Five times in two speeches today Trump referred to suburban “housewives” loving him because “they know I’ll protect them”. With tone-deaf words like that he might as well sign on to what Steve Bannon said today: “He doesn’t need to reach suburban women voters: It’s a waste of time and money. Who says we need to reach them?”

  38. Rep. Lauren Boebert was taken to a Colorado hospital after experiencing severe swelling in one of her legs on Monday, her campaign team said in a statement on Tuesday night. Doctors found a blood clot, and the congresswoman was diagnosed with May-Thurner Syndrome.
    On Tuesday morning, Boebert underwent surgery to remove the clot and insert a stent. Her team says the surgery was successful. Doctors at UCHealth Medical Center in Loveland say she’s expected to make a full recovery and don’t expect any long-term health effects.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/lauren-boebert-hospitalized-underwent-surgery-for-blood-clot-campaign-says/

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