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Jun 15 2020 11:59am

Quote (ThatAlex @ Jun 15 2020 01:55pm)

Gorsuch is a smart cookie. I wonder if he is playing some 23D backgammon with his strict textualism interpretation of the Civil Rights Act in this case so that he can use his own stare decisis to bludgeon down affirmative action in the future. God, I hope so.

I do think it is interesting that textualists like Gorsuch make reference to what lawmakers might have wanted or meant in their opinions. I've maintained textualism and originalism are mutually exclusive ideologies, yet Conservatives judges frequently refer to themselves as both.

Meanwhile, Alito is reeee'ing in his dissent about bathrooms.

You can't be both i agree and that is why so many conservative justices seem schizophrenic, scalia was the worse.

They are like " the words mean this in this case but in this one my ouija board says he meant this".

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Jun 15 2020 12:18pm

Quote (IceMage @ Jun 15 2020 01:00pm)

Well, for someone like yourself, it may not matter. But a very bad judicial outcome on religious liberty from one of Trump's Supreme Court picks certainly matters to voters who justify their support of him based on judges.

This recent example just makes my vote for Hillary make more sense. The culture is going to continue to move left, and it's delusional to expect conservative justices to somehow pull us back on abortion and gay rights. That was an argument I made against Trump at the time.

Liberal judicial ideology is antithetical with a republican mode of government insofar as it subverts the ability of the people to effect change via the legislature. That is the conservative position, that power is vested in the legislature to write laws, and not in a handful of god-kings on the bench.

That's some really shallow social commentary, though.

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Jun 15 2020 12:21pm

Quote (bogie160 @ Jun 15 2020 11:18am)

I don't think it's necessarily that black and white but I tend to agree with you. Legislatures need to take grow a pair.

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Jun 15 2020 12:37pm

The gays have too many rights

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Jun 15 2020 12:47pm

Quote (thundercock @ Jun 15 2020 01:21pm)

I don't think it's necessarily that black and white but I tend to agree with you. Legislatures need to take grow a pair.

Just wait for the boomers to die. We'll go back to people beating each other with cains on the floor of congress. The boomer generation is full of pussies and once they're gone we'll be able to fix most everything.

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Jun 15 2020 01:44pm

Quote (Skinned @ Jun 15 2020 01:49pm)

Its weird because so many people calling themselves good christians vote for a political party run by such godless men in the GOP.

And good Christians don't oppress gay people. That is solely bad christian stuff there.

Alternative is a party that wants my tax money going to kill babies by the millions because it's convenient. Not a hard choice my man.

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Jun 15 2020 03:26pm

Quote (duffman316 @ Jun 15 2020 11:37am)

The gays have too many rights

This isn't even our final form.

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