SCOTUS Happenings

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Always nice these days to read a bit of good news!

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The resolution passed.

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I know. I saw that. So what. It doesn’t do anything. It’s so stupid. When some state stops issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples, then I will get worried. This is just right wing virtue signaling.

Please note: I am not saying Obergefell isn’t in danger. It is. I am just saying that this resolution doesn’t threaten Obergefell at all. And if the Idaho legislature were serious about overturning Obergefell, there are things they could do to trigger that lawsuit. They could pass a new law banning same sex marriages, including a provision prohibiting county clerks from issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples, regardless of Obergefell. This is the model Mississippi followed to trigger the lawsuit that overturned Roe v. Wade. Idaho could do that. That they didn’t is very telling. They’re more interested in waving a Conservative Christian flag, as it were, than in actually doing anything to overturn Obergefell.

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So…today I find myself agreeing with Clarence Thomas, and the world feels a little less real. Broken clocks and all that, I suppose.

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GAAAAAHHH!!

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Interesting that all the women justices dissented. Mother not wanting their children to be exposed to raw sewage discharged into public waterways.

And, true to form, conservative men not giving a fuck what happens to their, or anyone else’s children.

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Barrett has been siding with the three liberal women more and more often. It gives me hope that if we can make it through the next few years, it might not be as hard to swing the Court around to a liberal majority as we feared.

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yup. those guys love to piss in the reservoir for “shits and giggles”.
i am so tired…

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And now we see if Il Douche will respect said decision.

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LOL, no.

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Getting ready for constitutional crisis like

big popcorn

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I’m pretty much doing the opposite. :nauseated_face:

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Fourteenth Amendment, Section 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

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I mean, I feel that way too. But also it’s like watching a car wreck. But also it’s like watching a car wreck where you’re a passenger in the car.

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There’s also literally a law saying the President cannot impound funds authorized by Congress. Regardless, I think @FGD135 is correct. Trump is going to ignore this ruling.

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