SCOTUS Thread

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  1. BudKilmer

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  2. Nug

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    Hosea on the highest!
     
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  3. Biship

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    I hope this isn’t our version of the reichstag fire
     
  4. Shawn Hunter

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    Seems to be a bit of a stretch.
     
  5. Bruce Wayne

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    He just means they can be more open in their extremism
     
  6. wes tegg

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    Primarily in the context of the census, and therefore representation in the House of Representatives. There was no real organized abolitionist movement in the U.S. until the late 1820s. Prior to that, it was basically just quakers and evangelicals.
     
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  7. texasraider

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    I’ve heard from many sources that this in fact has happened at least two dozen times
     
  8. lazy bum

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    We’ve treated the Supreme Court like they’re some great council of wise people above us all and above the political machine for far too long. And they’ve projected themselves as such.

    They’re people just like the rest of us and always have been. The sooner we recognize that and stop treating them like infallible sacred cows the better.
     
  9. wes tegg

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    I generally agree with your point, but the court has gotten remarkably worse/more partisan in the last thirty years. And that has been by careful design.
     
  10. NCHusker

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    I'm not convinced Samuel Alito is a person
     
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    It's all up for grabs. This one fucking body of deviant fucktards is about to change the entire country for the worse.

     
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  12. steamengine

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    Too on the nose for it to be Cruz

     
  13. bro

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  14. Name P. Redacted

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    Man, this court is going to deliver some bleak shit. Shame nothing can be done to correct it.
     
  15. herb.burdette

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    It’s going to get worse before it ever gets better, and it could be decades.
     
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  16. Name P. Redacted

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  17. herb.burdette

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    Imagine an alternative timeline where Thurgood Marshall lasts through to the Clinton administration.
     
  18. Shawn Hunter

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    How long until SCOTUS says it's legal to sell votes?
     
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  19. (Z)

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    GOP is looking to blow Pennsylvania. They're very close to putting up the extremist/insurrectionist ticket for GOP/Senate in Mastriano and Barnette.
     
  20. Redav

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    That's the hope with this right wing movent that absolutely insane people win primaries but hopefully can't win a general
     
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  21. (Z)

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    GOP has cost itself numerous Senate seats from this in past: Akin in Missouri, Mourdock in Indiana, O'Donnell in Delaware. They're pretty good at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

    GOP primary voters are unbelievable depraved lunatics.
     
  22. Truman

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    Zero percent any of what they said disqualifies them if they said that stuff during current cycles.
     
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  23. (Z)

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    Idk. Seems pretty obvious there's a limit on what the suburbs will tolerate in a statewide general.
     
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  24. IV

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    My Republican aunt thinking Marsha Blackburn is horrible is about as on the nose for this as it gets
     
  25. ned's head

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    What used to be a bit of a backstop now results in people in Congress who have harassed sandy hook parents
     
  26. (Z)

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    And Pennsylvania ain't Tennessee.
     
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  27. Redav

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    Those are from very red areas
     
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  28. (Z)

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    That's it. GOP voters are extremists, but there's still a portion of floating voters who are only willing to vote for the extremist party if the candidate is packaged properly.
     
  29. VaxRule

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    It’s just a bunch of dumb people that don’t understand how anything works and no longer feel like they should defer to experts on anything.

    That’s the GOP. Not just their voters, it’s the people they put on the Supreme Court too. That’s their party.
     
  30. IV

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    Voting days will never become holidays either because the republicans would get fucking slaughtered
     
  31. Name P. Redacted

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    Akin would beat mcaskill easily if that happened today and not ten years ago.
     
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  32. IV

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    Thats more of a realignment thing isn’t it?
     
  33. Redav

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    Yeah
     
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  34. Montclaire de Haviland

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    I'm a new clown, and you've not been wrong in succinctly pointing out my posting flaws. I've a huge respect for your pointed and reserved shares of legal, and general, perspective. I would love to know if you have a legal podcast rec, beyond maybe suggesting someday you'd endeavor
     
  35. fattus

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    No way! You’re new?
     
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  36. Montclaire de Haviland

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    Back off, I'm taken.

    Whatever, man. Trying to send my respects. He thinks I'm a dolt. So do you. Have fun
     
  37. (Z)

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    Sure, but again, this isn’t 2022 Missouri. Pennsylvania may be trending more red, but it’s not even close to a GOP state.
     
  38. Prospector

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  39. VaxRule

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    Abolish DHS
     
  40. bro

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  41. ned's head

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    You could just drive to the next state, they said

     
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  42. b0ne5

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    My wife is 16 weeks pregnant and we just found out that her body is producing antibodies that could could result in the baby becoming toxic to her. I don’t even want to think about what will happen if it does. And then this is looming over our heads and who knows what it will be like in Arkansas. It’s gut wrenching.
     
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  43. ned's head

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    Man, I'm sorry to hear about that.
     
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  44. BlazingRebel

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    I'm so sorry man hopefully everything works out.
     
  45. dblplay1212

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    Ugh, been there. If you need to talk/vent, dm's are open.
     
  46. Prospector

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  47. Wicket

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    ow fuck man, my wife and I are on nearly the exact same schedule and If wed get that news now Im not sure how we could even deal with it. Hope things will work out well
     
  48. fattus

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    Am I understanding this correctly? If your attorney does not present all evidence in your defense in state court you now can’t claim your 6th amendment rights were violated?
     
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