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Alito chiding Breyer for bringing up mass shootings is hilarious. I wonder if he has the same problem with Thomas recounting the gory details of every crime in his opinions.
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ilkhan posted:So, objectively, they struck down may issue and increased the level of scrutiny on 2A violations. Not far enough, but about what I expected. I sincerely want to know what an opinion that went "far enough" would look like. States can't pass laws containing the word "gun"? This isn't a typical Roberts wishy-washy chipping away at rights kind of decision. It's a full-throated win for the NRA and its ilk.
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Jun 23, 2022 19:53
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Liquid Communism posted:Deeply unlikely. They have the luxury of saying that they believe in those things because they are in the minority. If they had gained the majority in 2016 I have no doubt that Heller, Citizen’s United, and Shelby County, would have been in just as much danger as Roe.
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Jun 25, 2022 17:37
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I assume the outcome of this case would have been the same if the coach had been performing a satanic ritual on the 50-yard line, right?
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Jun 27, 2022 15:08
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Crows Turn Off posted:Do we know who is writing the majority opinion for the EPA case? They try to equally distribute opinions within each argument sitting. The EPA case was heard in the February sitting and it looks like Alito, Roberts, Kagan, and Sotomayor haven’t authored any opinions from that sitting. So it’s a good guess that one of them has it.
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Jun 29, 2022 20:29
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This whole conversation reminds me of a hilarious cert petition from several years back. I went and dug it up and it's even more on-point than I remembered. Some highlights: quote:Will John Robert$ admit that he already Denied Reviewing 10 criminally- proven Writs because each proved to criminal standards that judge$ like him routinely sell their orders to special interests in what are acts of treason against the United States and its 319,000,000 real, flesh-and-blood, non-corporate People? And of course listed in footnote 3: John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Samuel Alito. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2455857/scotus-s226199-8-8-15.pdf So hey, at least someone tried to hold them accountable.
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Jul 7, 2022 04:26
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As bad a decision as Bush v. Gore was, the decision to grant the stay three days earlier was even worse. At least with the main opinion, if you squint hard enough you can kind of see the equal protection violation alleged (as even two of the liberals did). But granting a stay solely because the ongoing counting of legal votes might flip the count to Gore and cause irreparable harm to Bush’s legitimacy was asinine.
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Jul 7, 2022 21:40
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Evil Fluffy posted:Remember how Kennedy kept insisting that he'd totally look at Gerrymandering if people could give evidence of it, and when he received it with the Wisconsin gerrymander we got the totally shocking result of the SCOTUS deciding it was ok and there was nothing they could do about it since it's outside the judiciary's control and if the people don't like it they can just vote out the politicians who have given themselves something like an 11 point advantage in the state? I wouldn't be surprised if Kennedy had ultimately ruled that way, but that decision came after he retired so we have Kavanaugh to thank for it. Though there was a Wisconsin gerrymander case a few years before that one that was kicked back to the lower court for lack of standing. I think that decision was unanimous, which makes me think the liberals went along with it because they didn't trust Kennedy to vote with them if they reached the merits.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:18 year old me voted for Nader because he made fun of both Bush and Gore. But I live in Illinois and my vote did not matter with the electoral college. 18 year old me didn’t vote at all because I didn’t care about politics at that time. But I live in Florida so my vote…oh poo poo. Sorry everyone.
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