Didn't we go through this mess and revert and fight it again and again? The Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, women's suffrage, worker's rights/labor laws, Contract law, social security act, the civil rights movement, separation of church and state, women's rights LGBTQI rights?
On the plus side, a lot of bogus patent infringement and birth-control challenges won't be so easily venue shopped (looking at you Kacsmaryk).
What really bugs me is the possibility that enough Justices might very well try some originalist/textualist mishmash and mess up the nice straight-forward citizenship granted by the constitution. They want all the states willing to fuck around to find different ways to limit who is a citizen. Then, when it lands on their bench again, make rule about how the context was slavery and it only applied to the formerly enslaved.
You've got to hand it to people willing to lie, cheat, twist things, and so on, they really can do anything, that is, until they are stopped by new means.
These originalists nutbags are dangerous. Alito is one. They conveniently only refer to the founding fathers when it serves their racist/sexist agenda.
Amy Phoney Barrett muddies the citizenship waters while ignoring the blatant corruption of her peers. She is complicit to this obscene Trump agenda. Is this part of her Catholic upbringing?
Didn't we go through this mess and revert and fight it again and again? The Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, women's suffrage, worker's rights/labor laws, Contract law, social security act, the civil rights movement, separation of church and state, women's rights LGBTQI rights?
On the plus side, a lot of bogus patent infringement and birth-control challenges won't be so easily venue shopped (looking at you Kacsmaryk).
What really bugs me is the possibility that enough Justices might very well try some originalist/textualist mishmash and mess up the nice straight-forward citizenship granted by the constitution. They want all the states willing to fuck around to find different ways to limit who is a citizen. Then, when it lands on their bench again, make rule about how the context was slavery and it only applied to the formerly enslaved.
You've got to hand it to people willing to lie, cheat, twist things, and so on, they really can do anything, that is, until they are stopped by new means.
These originalists nutbags are dangerous. Alito is one. They conveniently only refer to the founding fathers when it serves their racist/sexist agenda.
Oh we're back to 'states rights again'? Are we actually a nation?
Amy Phoney Barrett muddies the citizenship waters while ignoring the blatant corruption of her peers. She is complicit to this obscene Trump agenda. Is this part of her Catholic upbringing?
I was chuckling at the pundits saying she was turning progressive. Please. She is right out of the Handmaids Tale minus the plot twists.