Every time I see his corrupt face I hope it made the frontpage because he stepped down, slipped and broke his neck or whatever.
Disappointed once more.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
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I like my corrupt justices like I like my coffee: ground up, boiled, and helping me shit out last night's dinner
It'd be more effective if they had a trace of moral fiber.
The reminds me of the line on, “In Living Color” that got the show banned from our house:
I like my friends like I like my coffee: Black & Bitter!”
Your parents were like, "Homey don't play that"
Coffee, one of the important tools in any fartographer’s satchel.
Maybe personal beliefs shouldn't be imposed on policy that affects different people of different faiths. Wish that was written down somewhere. We could use it as a guideline for how the founding fathers wished the country would be run.
I don't know man, maybe slave owning people who lived 248 years ago didn't have the best ideas, or the be all end all say in how a government should work? Maybe I'm nuts?
But a guy who supposedly is the son of an imaginary guy born of miracle intercourseless birth who makes up arbitrary rules about how to treat others and life life does. We should let him decide about the binary 'nature' of gender. Got it.
Sky daddy?
That's a really broad brush you're painting with. It's almost as if the founding father is were complex human beings with complex issues that they had to compromise a lot on in order to even start the country we live in. I mean they kicked that slavery can down the road, where it landed and started the Civil War.
That really is the problem with a lot of the Constitution and similar founding documents. Some of them were widely popular universally (such as banning the quartering of troops) at the time but have little real bearing on our lives today if any. Others were so divisive that they had no choice but to either leave them out entirely (slavery) or compromise messily (iirc that's why we have the electoral college, but I'm rusty on the details).
But no I mean let's just hold them up as if they were demigods who could make no errors and knew everything. Because that makes fucking sense.
So you agree with me? What's your point? Pretending things are the same as 200 years ago is willfully ignorant. Pretending the constitution is a sacred document like the ten commandments is dumb.
Yeah, they agreed with you. Their point is that they agreed with you. Sometimes people just share their thoughts and aren't trying to start a fight.
Sometimes is hard to read between the booze lol.
In 2019, Texan Zackey Rahimi assaulted his girlfriend and fired his gun at a witness. He was put under a domestic violence restraining order, which he violated by possessing a firearm—an infraction under a 1994 federal laws—which he fired at people on multiple occasions. In his defense, Rahimi argued that the restraining order’s gun ban violated his 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed: there was no 18th century law analogous enough to the statute barring Rahimi from possessing a gun, and therefore under Bruen, that statute must be unconstitutional.
Yo what the FUCK
I can see why Texas is the venue that Republicans go to when they wanna get some crazy shit into precedent on a federal level
The 18th century analogy standard was widely misused. Probably because SCOTUS didn’t make it clear and it’s a strange standard anyway. But yeah, the fifth circuit is a wild one
I mean it’s basically a gateway to bad laws
“If there’s any dispute between how it used to be and how it is now, we want to make it so how it used to be wins”
“Wait isn’t there usually a reason they changed it?”
“I said no questions”
It's like exigent circumstances only exist when it benefits their arguments...
Confused what the complaint is here, they ruled that you can't be a criminal and own a firearm.
We have a bigger issue that abusers are rarely forced to give up their firearms.
Did you read the article? It’s mostly about how Rahimi relates to Bruen and why that makes it so problematic. Nowhere do they condemn the outcome