otsuichi

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by otsuichi 13y ago
I think, looking at the facts of Kentucky vs. King, that's pretty clearly a concise example of the police engaging in unreasonable conduct.
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by otsuichi 13y ago
An interpretation of the word "reasonable" is literally all discussions of the 4th Amendment have ever come down to, you can't pretend like someone with a narrower scope or "reasonableness" is just haggling over sem
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by otsuichi 13y ago
But those companies are both American, aren't they? Regardless, I feel like the ceiling for outrage and/or concern has reached its ceiling, at least among foreign governments who can at least do a semblance of something about it,
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by otsuichi 13y ago
It's not because we have more information, it's that THEY have a lot more information. The amount of our lives that we divulge to or involve the internet has shot up exponentially, certainly since the 1990s but when you think abou
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by otsuichi 13y ago
Not to mention that he was only elected in 2010, well after a lot of this stuff had been implemented and reauthorized time and time again.
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by otsuichi 13y ago
Oh, right. Congress can repass it, but provided the Executive branch respects the function and decision of the judiciary, the Supreme Court does have the final say over congressional acts that have been challenged.
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by otsuichi 13y ago
I've never understood the mentality that leads to homeschooling. When so many people are terrified at becoming parents/at being new parents because they've just been entrusted with a life and they're afraid to screw up,
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by otsuichi 13y ago
A SCOTUS decision IS binding to Congress. They can't pass a law doing something that has been deemed unconstitutional unless they first amend the Constitution to explicitly allow them to do that same thing, which is obviously not going