Fifth Avenue Forum

Monday, Florida Highway Patrol took a 22-year-old woman from Georgia into custody after they said she shot at cars on Interstate 10 in Florida's pandhandle.
The woman had recently checked out of a local hotel and told the staff she was going on a shooting spree, directed by “God” in relation to the solar eclipse.

I just watched the clip... I love how Whoopie is just sitting there like "no, no, no, no, no, no... stop, stop, stop." Unfortunately people have to prove how dumb they are.

I just watched the clip... I love how Whoopie is just sitting there like "no, no, no, no, no, no... stop, stop, stop." Unfortunately people have to prove how dumb they are.

Even Whoopie, the supposed voice of reason, is explaining how God actually works instead of just saying that looking for magical reasons with scientifically proven events is dumb as ****.

Arizona SC validates a law from 1864 banning abortion and charging people with crimes for aiding.

This country has gone so far backwards.

Arizona SC validates a law from 1864 banning abortion and charging people with crimes for aiding.

This country has gone so far backwards.

Whole lotta FUD about this on the interwebs, including the "abortion law from 1864!" Stuff. Yes, while the law was originally enacted in 1864, it was recodified in 1901, 1913, 1928, and 1977, which was after Roe v. Wade. All that stuff about "this law was passed before women could even vote" is bullcrap. It was last codified in 1977.

Second, the case was about whether this statute had impliedly been repealed by later Arizona statutes that came out after Roe and that regulated abortion up to the limits set by Roe and its progeny. The case was not about whether abortion is good or bad or whether there might be a right to abortion under the Arizona constitution.

Third, I see people saying "7-0 Republican court!" Yes, all of the judges on the AZ Supreme Court were appointed by republican governors. But Arizona uses a modified Missouri Plan method of judicial selection where the governor has to pick from a slate of potential judges that are selected by a nonpartisan commission (the Arizona Commission on Appellate Court Appointments), which has express has limits on how many members can come from the same party. The governor is not free to pick whoever he or she wants to. Each judge also has to sit for a yes/no retention election two years after being appointed (and then again every six years), and all seven justices on the AZ Supreme Court have been through at least one retention election.