The vote was 4-3 to keep the reproductive freedom amendment ON the ballot in Missouri.
These two justices voted against it.
Kelly Broniec
Ginger Gooch
VOTE THEM OUT.
https://twitter.com/piper4missouri/status/1838317173674320135
If the MO Supreme Court justices are not retained, the Missouri Governor chooses replacements from 3 candidates. I am not familiar enough with the process to know whether they would be replaced with justices who are just as bad.
If you live in Missouri, send a message. Fight back. Vote them out.
The rest of us? We should spread the word.
Open thread.
Ishiyama
Even so, the new appointees would have to look over their shoulders at the voters.
lamh47
Lordt…sigh, the 50% WW for Trump is reminding me that 53% of WW number in 2016 that certain folks poo poo others for always referencing…smh
No Nym
WaterGirl, thank you for posting this! This Missourian will disseminate it as much as possible. Piper is actively trying to get Dems to run and take back what was once a very Democratic, pro-union state and has become a laboratory for Gilead. Folks who are Misery-curious should subscribe to her Substack, “The View from Rural Missouri”–or maybe throw BlueMissouri.org a few bucks (Pipers’ organization) in honor of our beloved Ozark Hillbilly.
apocalipstick
A 7- member nominating committee provides the three names. I believe there must be three candidates for each vacancy, so if two justices are voted out, there should be six names. After the appointed justices have served 12 months, they are on the ballot for retention at the next general election.
apocalipstick
@No Nym:
I don’t know that Missouri as a state was ever very pro-union; St. Louis was a union town, and KC to a lesser extent. My dad is a Teamster in southern Mo. and when the plant voted in the union in the early ’60s folks ’round here thought it was the Red Menace come to steal their crops.
WaterGirl
@apocalipstick: That meshes with what I have read, too. What I don’t know is the make-up of the commission, or whether they are all conservative Republicans.
Hoping someone from Missouri will know.
WaterGirl
I wanted to get the word out, but this is an OPEN THREAD so don’t feel like you have to stick to this as a topic.
No Nym
@apocalipstick: I grew up in St. Louis, so maybe my view is skewed. My dad was a pilot who was very pro-union (and from a long line of Republicans), and my stepdad was an industrial mechanic who was, too. People bitched about union dues, but what I remember from my childhood and young adulthood was very pro working class. With few exceptions, all the people we knew professed to be Democrats. My dad even crossed over from Reflexive Republican to Donating Dem in the Clinton era. Change is possible.
apocalipstick
@WaterGirl:
The commission consists of three citizens appointed by the governor, the chief justice of the MSSC, and three lawyers selected by the state bar. After the candidates are put forward the governor has 60 days to make a selection; if he/she does not do so, the commission makes the choice.
apocalipstick
@No Nym:
Yes, St. Louis is a different animal from much of the state. It was always strongly union and pro-Democratic, which is one reason the rest of the state loves to screw with it so much.
zhena gogolia
@lamh47: yeah
WaterGirl
@apocalipstick: So highly likely to be conservatives who might well have made the same choice as these two if they had been in office?
Is that a fair guess?
Either way, maybe having the non-retention as an example might keep them from being as corrupt as they might like to be. After all, they have the US Supreme Court right there, with their “we’re corrupt and fuck you if you don’t like it” neon sign flashing.
apocalipstick
@WaterGirl:
Well, the chief justice was appointed by Bob Holden (D) and one cannot tell about the attorneys, but I’m pretty sure that the three citizens appointed by Mike Parson will be pretty far right.
BTW, the term of a MSSC judge is 12 years, so it’s not a lifetime appointment.
BC in Illinois
@No Nym: @apocalipstick:
From St Louis City Democratic State Rep Peter Meredith and his family: Join the Union!
Rep. Meredith is a member of the Wee Heavies, who also have a version of the song: “Sell Your Labor, Not Your Soul.”
Quicksand
Ginger Gooch. Ginger Gooch.
GregMulka
Thank you. This and the dumpster fire of our new network deployment are why I didn’t vote today.
Michael Bersin
And, the money pours in for and against Missouri’s Amendment 3 (restoring women’s reproductive health and abortion rights) on the November ballot.
Some surprises, and some from the usual suspects:
Campaign Finance: a friend
Campaign Finance: wedge issue
Michael Bersin
In Missouri there is usually a significant number of voters of a certain bent who tend to vote “no” on retention of appellate judges and justices out of an ideology-based spite no matter what the judge’s/justice’s placement on the political spectrum. The statewide “no” vote in these retention votes in 2022 ranged between 32% and 35%.
What would be poetic/funny about the November general election retention vote for the two Missouri Supreme Court Justices is if approximately 20% to 25% of the usual “yes” for retention vote peeled off to “no” because of their crappy opinion(s).
There isn’t enough time between now and election day for their supporters to create PACs to raise and spend money to counter a viral movement to dump them. Besides, their naturally supportive constituency is too busy trying to raise money to defeat Amendment 3.
It won’t take much of a shift. If it actually happened, it would be icing on the cake.
chopper
…Ginger Gooch? seriously?
Shalimar
@Quicksand: sounds like red-headed slut-shaming we should be against.