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This is what McConnell is talking about when he says the SCOTUS will be his greatest legacy. What the GOP cannot do legislatively they are getting done through an activist Supreme Court completely willing to bin any and all precedent.
If there is a hell I hope Alito roasts in it
Alito has effectively given up being a jurist. He's now little more than a petulant child.
This was kind of inevitable.
The second amendment was nothing to do with self defense or hunting.
It gave the right to every American to own weapons of war in case they need to go to war.
So a huge industry builds up selling weapons of war to private citizens. They pay for lobbyists who pay for politicians.
The politicians select the supreme court who get to work with citizens united and lift any remaining regs on the influence of industry.
So now the cash is really flowing and it's impossible to stop the inevitable stacking of the SC.
Next up, guns and abortion.
It's worth remembering that Biden can extend the supreme court. but then each party will likely just extend it to suit themselves and it will eventually just replace the senate but with lifetime appointments. Edging closer to dictatorship controlled by big business.
Kinda just waffling on now
but it's incredibly sad to watch the whole system sleep walk in to disaster.
The second amendment was nothing to do with self defense or hunting.
It gave the right to every American to own weapons of war in case they need to go to war.
So a huge industry builds up selling weapons of war to private citizens. They pay for lobbyists who pay for politicians.
The politicians select the supreme court who get to work with citizens united and lift any remaining regs on the influence of industry.
So now the cash is really flowing and it's impossible to stop the inevitable stacking of the SC.
Next up, guns and abortion.
It's worth remembering that Biden can extend the supreme court. but then each party will likely just extend it to suit themselves and it will eventually just replace the senate but with lifetime appointments. Edging closer to dictatorship controlled by big business.
Kinda just waffling on now
but it's incredibly sad to watch the whole system sleep walk in to disaster.
Martin Alvito
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Horrid decision. Breyer absolutely annihilates Thomas, if you read it. To greatly oversimplify, what Breyer is saying is that the Tenth Amendment should be read as meaning that the proper place for interpreting what the Second Amendment means is at the state legislature level. This is more or less the same reasoning that Alito is likely to use to overturn Roe - which sets up a run at Griswold, HIPAA and a host of other protections. At best the right is being disingenuous by making a states' rights argument in Dobbs, but not Bruen.
Breyer's take is fundamentally a risks argument. Breyer would hold that states are by nature different, possessing different needs, and that their democratically elected legislatures should therefore determine what risks the governed population is willing to tolerate with respect to guns. (This is how we regulate an awful lot of stuff, by the way.) By contrast, (fertile) women are inherently the same with respect to that particular issue, and therefore they are the people best suited to determine what risks they are willing to run with respect to their own bodies.
It's hard to reasonably dispute either of Breyer's positions while simultaneously holding that you believe in democratic governance and the Constitution. The only rational out on either issue IMO is to claim that abortion is murder, and the science on that is murky indeed. Otherwise, Roe is just a logical extension of Griswold.
Breyer's take is fundamentally a risks argument. Breyer would hold that states are by nature different, possessing different needs, and that their democratically elected legislatures should therefore determine what risks the governed population is willing to tolerate with respect to guns. (This is how we regulate an awful lot of stuff, by the way.) By contrast, (fertile) women are inherently the same with respect to that particular issue, and therefore they are the people best suited to determine what risks they are willing to run with respect to their own bodies.
It's hard to reasonably dispute either of Breyer's positions while simultaneously holding that you believe in democratic governance and the Constitution. The only rational out on either issue IMO is to claim that abortion is murder, and the science on that is murky indeed. Otherwise, Roe is just a logical extension of Griswold.
carolinablue232
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I like these UK reporters over here. The one questioning Cruz was great as well. Leaves them with nothing to say but childish retorts.
Ahem...lol, someone doesn't "know America"
Guess who's back (back back)
Back again...
The solution to active shooters at sports events is to have sniper-nests...????
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