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10/27/2020 7:08 am  #1


Our Judiciary


If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
 

10/27/2020 7:25 am  #2


Re: Our Judiciary

We're fucked.


I Love my country, I fear the government.
 
 

10/27/2020 4:19 pm  #3


Re: Our Judiciary

The thread is anticipatory not analytical, people are voting based on expectation. This will be a good place to watch.


If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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10/28/2020 12:35 am  #4


Re: Our Judiciary

As I understand it the Constitution says Congress makes the laws, all the laws, only Congress.
If somebody objects to a law the Supremes are there  to decide if it's a valid objection, if it violates something dictated by the Constitution, or clashes with some other law. How the fuck are they allowed to cancel a law because they don't like what it does? Why doesn't it take an act of Congress to rescind a law they passed?


 Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose.
 
 

10/28/2020 1:31 am  #5


Re: Our Judiciary

Define correct, that's where the rub is. I would say do what's legal, but that doesn't quite define it either.


 Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose.
 
 

10/28/2020 6:13 am  #6


Re: Our Judiciary

I think we're into Politics as religion here.


If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis Brandeis
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10/28/2020 11:16 am  #7


Re: Our Judiciary

personally i really don't like that an unelected superlegislature-for-life gets to decide whether or not i have rights


 

10/28/2020 11:47 am  #8


Re: Our Judiciary

I'm not a fan of the stacked court.


I Love my country, I fear the government.
 
 

10/28/2020 5:31 pm  #9


Re: Our Judiciary

griff wrote:

I think we're into Politics as religion here.

More accurately, religion imposed on everyone else by subverting politics.

Most all Supreme Court justices are Catholics.  So the Pope will tell us what to think.


 

 

10/28/2020 5:32 pm  #10


Re: Our Judiciary

fargon wrote:

I'm not a fan of the stacked court.

Isn't that a misogynist comment? 
 

 

10/29/2020 12:00 pm  #11


Re: Our Judiciary

"Stacking" the Supreme Court may be the only solution to the perfect storm of factors that have made it a political tool of the far right.
The worst of those factors, of course, was the opportunity that the worst president in history had to name three justices.
With the shameless collusion of a derelict majority in the Senate, we are stuck with them.
While the lifetime appointment may be in the constitution, the size of the court is not.

 

10/30/2020 9:23 am  #12


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Packing the court works, if you're prepared for 30 years of squabbling.


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10/30/2020 12:10 pm  #13


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As opposed to?


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10/30/2020 12:18 pm  #14


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How many states passed laws making it legal to run over protestors with your car?
Can the squabbling really get much worse than that??


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