"And if the supremes think a certain way, it matters not what Beagles, myself, and most Americans think, because there is no appeal to a supreme court decision."
Technically correct, but misleading. While there is no formal appeal process for a Supreme Court decision, it is certainly possible for a Supreme Court ruling to be overturned. Indeed, that's what recently happened with Roe v Wade. In this case the court kind of overturned itself, but not exactly because the people currently on the Supreme Court are not the same people who were on it when Roe was originally decided. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court is still the Supreme Court no matter who is currently serving on it.
Another way a Supreme Court decision may be overturned is if Congress passes a whole new law that is slightly different, but substantially the same as the overturned law. The court can also overturn that one if the case ever comes before it, which could start the process all over again. This is what Biden means when he says he wants to "codify" abortion rights at the federal level. Well not exactly, because there never was a federal law either allowing or prohibiting abortion. What Roe did was prohibit the states from prohibiting abortion. Now the states can either allow or prohibit it, which is what they were doing before Roe. Any one of these state laws, and any federal one that might be passed, could conceivably be overturned by the court in the future, but until it is, it would remain in effect.
I get all kinds of stuff on my news app, everything from Fox News to ads for women's underwear. I seldom read Fox, and I can't access the underwear ads because of some kind of blockage in the system. I wouldn't know that except I clicked on one of them by mistake and got a blank page that said, "Not Allowed". Purely in the interest of scientific curiosity, I clicked on several more of them and got the same results. Not that I care, but why do they even allow the ads on the app at all if they're going to deny access to them?
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