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ShadowCatboy posted:And this is where we are now: In an apparent attempt at retaliation against the Supreme Court, the State Legislature passed an administrative law that stripped certain powers from the Judiciary, like its authority to appoint local chief judges and set district court budgets. Brownback also threatened the Justices with other reforms (recall elections, splitting the court in two, lowering the retirement age, and subjecting judges to elections instead of appointments). Even more perverse however, in the sort of warped negotiation pioneered by Marcus Licinius Crassus, the law also stipulates that if it is declared unconstitutional and struck down, the entire state judiciary would be defunded. Basically, “Agree to my terms or we'll let your house burn to the ground.” Now, I may not be some big city lawyer, or even a lawyer at all, but it strikes me that the courts could also find the stipulating clause unconstitutional as well, no? 
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:Some children only learn not to touch the stove after they have burned their hand. It seems like the people of America have to learn in a similar way. So the suffering of the people of Kansas is a necessary sacrifice. That implies the people of America will learn a lasting lesson from Kansas. If not, then the more analogous example is people who are unable to feel pain at all: they burn themselves on hot stoves because they don't recognize the signals that their actions are doing harm. In that sense, the suffering of the people of Kansas isn't a necessary sacrifice, it's pointless cruelty.
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