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"California is prepared to... pay... an estimated $25,000 each." What a joke. Compensation for state forced sterilization should be orders of magnitude greater
by elromulous 5y ago
"California is prepared to... pay... an estimated $25,000 each."
What a joke. Compensation for state forced sterilization should be orders of magnitude greater than that.
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How have these cases not gone to the supreme court? I understand these people might be of little means, but surely some org like the ACLU could represent the case.
- scotusthrow 5y agoThey have gone to SCOTUS and SCOTUS said it was constitutional. This is generally seen as one of their worst decisions and it still technically stands: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell
- rdtwo 5y agoDread Scott and citizens United probably right up there
- elromulous 5y agoLooks like that ruling was made in 1927. This absolutely needs to be overturned. At the risk of godwinning[1] myself, this is literally a Nazi policy. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
- djbebs 5y agoIts the other way around actually. The nqzis were copying América