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It seems to be an early memo of something they might do in the future but are not immediately planning.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 17:30 |
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 00:51 |
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hobbesmaster posted:All USAs are generally replaced on day 1. A competent administration would have replacements all ready to go. Except they aren't being replaced, the position is just being left empty because the White House doesn't have people lined up for all the positions.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2017 17:02 |
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Jealous Cow posted:Ok, thanks. That helps! Think of it as a similar concept as "you can fire a black person" but you can't "fire a person for being black."
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2017 19:07 |
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It doesn't.
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# ¿ Apr 5, 2017 13:14 |
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Also now it's gone and when a future Democratic president is putting someone in they can ignore the Republicans and don't have to take the heat for getting rid of the filibuster
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2017 14:51 |
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And now you know ... the rest of the story
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2017 13:24 |
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:It sounds like there is so little in the way of regulation on debt that I could just make up some bullshit debt on a random person and force them to pay me, is that actually true? Yes, in that it happens all the time. No, in that you can't legally do that. Piell fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jul 4, 2017 |
# ¿ Jul 4, 2017 22:00 |
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Azathoth posted:Okay, if we're dealing with hypotheticals here, I have two related, but distinct questions that a layman like me is having a hard time working out: For 2, the Senate can impeach him for literally any reason, so it doesn't matter if he is pardoned.
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2017 18:57 |
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Also Alito's argument is "it's not super common so who cares"Alito posted:"In short, the right that the Court now discovers is likely to appear only rarely, and because the present case is so unique, it is hard to see how it meets our stated criteria for granting review.
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# ¿ May 14, 2018 16:03 |
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Dead Reckoning posted:Nah, it should be someone hardcore into predestination who objects to interfering with God's will that the child should die. The argument that making a cake is speech would certainly be legally stronger if a message-less cake could be made but one with a specific message was refused.
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2018 19:47 |
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The relevant portion of the Colorado law that the complaint was made underquote:24-34-601. Discrimination in places of public accommodation - definition Cut down to the portion that applies it is "place of business engaged in any sales to the public and any place offering services ... including but not limited to any business offering wholesale or retail sales to the public ... It is a discriminatory practice and unlawful for a person, directly or indirectly, to refuse, withhold from, or deny to an individual ... because of ... sexual orientation... the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of a place of public accommodation." The gay couple was denied the full enjoyment of goods and services (depends on what making a cake qualifies as) because of their sexual orientation. It's illegal.
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2018 23:07 |
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FronzelNeekburm posted:It's distinguishable from Masterpiece because he would sell them monkey chow, unlike the baker, who would not sell the gay couple anything. Nah, the baker said he would sell them premade off the shelf cakes.
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 21:37 |
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GreyjoyBastard posted:just so we can get this sorted out in a timely fashion: how should we limit the franchise? Well, it was white men only for a while, we could try minority women only for a while and see how that goes.
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2018 03:11 |
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SickZip posted:No it doesnt. Are you familiar with how many presidential elections are in a 6 year period? Let's say I vote in 2008. I don't vote in 2012. Now I can't vote next time I want to in 2016. Idiot
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2018 02:37 |
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SickZip posted:If you dont vote in 2012, they send you a notice. If you dont answer, youre still eligible to vote in 2016 since they allow 4 years to pass before they decertify. Midterm elections exist
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2018 03:09 |
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qkkl posted:Going back to the nomination process, is there a single individual who has the power to call for a Senate vote on a SCOTUS nominee? I don't fully understand how the actual vote gets called. Grassley can do whatever the gently caress he wants to since he's the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the majority Republican members will support him. (This is the current vote scheduled for Friday, I dont believe the full Senate vote has been scheduled yet)
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2018 19:07 |
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celewign posted:I've got a question: does anyone think it's a little fishy that this lady that was sexually assaulted in the 80s only comes out of the woodwork now that it's convenient for the Dems? I mean, if this guy assaulted her in the 80's why didn't she go to the police in the 80's? gently caress off with your rape apologism and victim blaming
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2018 15:59 |
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torgeaux posted:Flake said he'd vote no if there is no delay. No he didnt, he said he wouldn't be comfortable voting without a delay but didnt say what would happen if his request was denied. Piell fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Sep 28, 2018 |
# ¿ Sep 28, 2018 19:16 |
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Dameius posted:Wouldn't that basically make him just the new Kennedy? And it would mean that the court shifted so far to the right that Roberts now would be the relative middle. Truly a horrifying prospect. He'd be the new Kennedy in terms of being a swing vote, but he'll still be voting to the right of Kennedy.
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# ¿ Oct 11, 2018 12:53 |
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So Hardiman is a good possibility for the next Supreme Court Justice if a spot opens up. He's also crazy. https://twitter.com/DavidLat/status/1063534082829819906
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2018 14:42 |
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Ogmius815 posted:It's not decorum bullshit. The district courts historically haven't been and shouldn't be political. If we get to a point where district judges can't get approved the federal courts will stop functioning (and frankly they barely work as is). It's too late for your decorum bullshit
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# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 18:29 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:I just read that, and yeah it’s bad. Also justice beer wrote a dissent saying that Lousiana’s abortion law should go into effect and force 3 of the 4 clinics in the state to close before they sue for relief. Thankfully Roberts signed on with the liberal justices and abortion isn’t unavailable in LA just yet. I'd just like to make it clear that Robert's decision to grant that stay has absolutely nothing to do with the his opinion on actual merits of the underlying case regarding abortion, and there is no reason to believe that he will side with the liberal justices on the actual case. To be against the stay is literally saying that lower courts can override the Supreme Court at will. The Fifth Circuit literally acknowledged that Whole Women's Health (adjucated by the Supreme Court two years ago) forbids this ruling. It's ridiculously absurd that this wasn't a 9-0 and can only and obviously be a case of the 4 conservative justices who voted against being absolutely legally bankrupt in service of their political agenda.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2019 15:01 |
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Sanguinia posted:The Census has to be finalized for print by June and there's still an injunction in place preventing them from adding the question to the version currently scheduled to be printed, so isn't it possible for this case to drag long enough to make the legal question moot? 6 weeks seems like short turnaround for a SCOTUS decision. The fact that SCOTUS picked it up this way (it was highly unusual before the shitheads took over) is precisely because they want to force it onto the census. If they were going to let it stay off, they would have let it go through the normal court process.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2019 00:34 |
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atelier morgan posted:It doesn't. Dred Scott, Korematsu, Bush v. Gore and Hobby Lobby just off the top of my head. Thomas getting his way would absolutely devastate the current legal system and how laws have worked for more than a century.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2019 03:51 |
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atelier morgan posted:I really don't see how you got the crazy idea that I think Thomas should ever get his way. Thomas and Gorsuch aren't "ignoring precedent when it stands in the way of justice", they're ignoring precedent because it stands in the way of their personal political goals. Thomas just literally argued that poor people shouldn't be provided lawyers, and even if they are then their lawyer can completely and factually be absolutely incompetently and they would have no recourse. Piell fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Mar 1, 2019 |
# ¿ Mar 1, 2019 04:01 |
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https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1108008386002604033?s=20 https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1108009660060262400?s=20 https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1108011244471152640?s=20
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2019 16:12 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:Which is still sufficient to remove Thomas and Kavanaugh for their past behaviors. Republicans won't do it though. They're more likely to get rid off Trump than they are to do it to a Supreme Court Justice.
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# ¿ Mar 24, 2019 22:18 |
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Jealous Cow posted:https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1120316699490889729 It entirely depends if Roberts wants to ignore legality and just rule for Trump because he wants to. Trump has no legal leg to stand on but that hasn't stopped them in the past.
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2019 16:31 |
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:So whats the difference between a "concurrence" and a "concurrence in the judgment" Concurrence: I agree with the majority opinion but want to say more about it Concurrence in the judgement: I agree with the result but not how it was reached.
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# ¿ May 20, 2019 23:37 |
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Masterpiece Cakeshop didnt even hear the description of the cake before they refused. As soon as they heard it was for a gay wedding they said they wouldn't make a cake for it.
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# ¿ Jun 18, 2019 20:10 |
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Dead Reckoning posted:It's not relevant though. The issue is whether people who engage in expressive conduct as their business can be forced to express a message they object to if the potential customer can somehow tie it to membership in a protected class. I think the answer should be a firm "no", for all the reasons I outlined, and I think most people would agree if this case was about the Westboro Baptist Church, rather than a gay couple. That's not true. Masterpiece Cakeshop did not refuse to make a cake with a specific message supporting gay marriage, or a cake with two grooms on it, or a cake with rainbow filling. There wasn't a message they refused to put on the cake, because no message was discussed. They refused to make a cake because the people the cake was for were gay. Masterpiece Cakeshop refused them before any discussion of the cake design was made.
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# ¿ Jun 18, 2019 21:18 |
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Dead Reckoning posted:Like, in general? Sure. There was no loving message discussed for the cake. They refused to make a cake for a wedding as soon as they learned the people getting married were gay. It's discrimination against a protected class, full stop. Stop with your bullshit. Edit: Two people of the same sex getting married is exactly the same event as two people of differing sex getting married, we had a court case about it. Refusing to make the exact same wedding cake for a gay wedding that you would for a straight wedding is discriminatory. "Hello, I would like to custom order a marble cake to celebrate my wedding. Also, I am straight." "Hello, I would like to custom order a marble cake to celebrate my wedding. Also, I am gay." Those are the correct parallels and if you would do the first and not the second you are illegally discriminating. Piell fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Jun 19, 2019 |
# ¿ Jun 19, 2019 02:06 |
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Dead Reckoning posted:Baking might not be speech, but custom cake decorating really obviously is. If a choir is willing to perform Amazing Grace at an all-white picnic, but not at an all-black picnic, because of the picnic attendees' race, do you think they are engaging in impermissible racial discrimination, and if not, how is it different?
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# ¿ Jun 19, 2019 02:57 |
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SCOTUS just ruled that a 40 foot cross is not a religous symbol, on the basis that it's been there for a while
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 15:17 |
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sexpig by night posted:it's actually way better, they 100% agree it's a religious symbol but it 'means something more now' for the monument so even if it is a religious symbol you can't complain. From SCOTUSBlog quote:The outcome turns heavily on the fact that the cross has been around for a long time and seems to establish a general presumption of constitutionality for old monuments of this sort: "The passage of time gives rise to a strong presumption of constitutionality." Old things cant be unconstitutional, I'm a Supreme Court Justice hurf durf
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 15:22 |
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Rigel posted:This 7-2 decision doesn't sound totally crazy to me. Their reasoning is basically "its been there for a very long time, at this point removing it would no longer be neutral, it would now be openly hostile to religion, which also isn't allowed". That's very stupid. A big sign saying "Jesus is the only god" put up by the government doesnt become constitutional just because it's been up for a while
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 15:29 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I wonder if they'll punt on the citizenship question case. I suspect that the revelation of the proof of racist intent upset some planned opinions there. https://twitter.com/JoshMBlackman/status/1143698702831443968 Piell fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jun 26, 2019 |
# ¿ Jun 26, 2019 16:02 |
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Wrt the citizenship case, its pretty clear the Trump admin is doing it because racism. But I feel in a vacuum, any government wanting to know how many people in its boarders are citizens, how many are perm. residents, how many are on temp visas, etc isn't a completely terrible thing. Good thing we have proof that this cow isn't spherical, the guy behind this literally said it was to advantage "Republicans and non-Hispanic whites."
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2019 16:10 |
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First ruling: cops can take blood to test from an unconscious person Thomas goes further and says you can always take blood lol
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2019 15:05 |
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# ¿ May 14, 2024 00:51 |
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Partisan gerrymandering is non-justiciable ie legal "The holding here is that such claims are non-justiciable -- that they are not of the kind that courts can decide. That admits of very few factual exceptions, if any. Essentially, if your claim sounds in partisan gerrymandering, the courts cannot accept it."
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