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by skhunted 2y ago
What other countries do is not something I care about as far as SCOTUS goes. We don’t have parliamentary system that most other countries have and rewriting 40 years of legislation in the U.S. is lot harder to do in than in most other coun
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by skhunted 2y ago
I think the saddest thing is that judges are expected to answer how they would rule on specific cases to be confirmed. That’s the sad part? We have different perceptions reality.
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by skhunted 2y ago
So, if the president is a crook and nominates a crook and the senate is full of crooks and vote yes to have said crook become a judge, then yes really bad stuff can happen. That’s essentially what happened with Kavanaugh, Amy, and Neil mi
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by skhunted 2y ago
While a president has total immunity for exercising “core constitutional powers,” a sitting or former president also has “presumptive immunity” for all official acts. That immunity, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority opinion,
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by skhunted 2y ago
There’s a huge difference between “I think I can get away with this” and “The Supreme Court says I have absolute immunity”.
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by skhunted 2y ago
It’s because European courts aren’t lawless and for the most part, follow what the law really says instead of distorting it for political considerations. This might be the case now but won’t be always true. Any institution has to the capa
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by skhunted 2y ago
Misleading title. The text of the majority opinion makes it clear it is very unlikely any conviction of Trump in the case will likely not be Constituonal. The president therefore may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutiona
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by skhunted 2y ago
Courts do not weigh in on larger policy debates in society. It is entirely naive to think this of SCOTUS decisions in landmark cases. It is naive to think these 9 people are immune to political considerations of their decisions. It’s the
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by skhunted 2y ago
What does Super PAC spending have to do with what the ruling was “about?” The logic used and the wording of the ruling are what are important in SCOTUS decisions. The impact is what matters and the impact was a massive rise in spending b
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by skhunted 2y ago
From the Wikipedia article on usufruct. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote in 1789 that "Earth belongs – in usufruct – to the living." Jefferson's metaphor means that, like a usufructuary, human beings have the right to use the
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by skhunted 2y ago
I’m not assuming it was in bad faith. It is a bad faith argument to say that Citizens was merely about allowing a group of people to make a movie about Hilary Clinton. Do you think he is immune to making bad faith arguments? That he has a
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by skhunted 2y ago
My comment had nothing to do with wether or not the Court is being more or less activist. It was about the consequences of some key rulings.
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You are not engaging in a good fait discussion if you think Citizen's United was just allowing a movie to be made about Hilary Clinton and that it was truly about free speech. It's about the consequences of the rulings and what t
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by skhunted 2y ago
The court is clearly going in the direction of activism in the sense of abandoning major precedents that have been around for many decades. Abortion, fair share union dues, Chevron, Citizens United, gutting the Voting Rights Act (thousands
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by skhunted 2y ago
The lower courts see where the Supreme Court is heading and they will rule accordingly. I could be wrong. In a few years I think you will see that I’m right.
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I’m not a lawyer and don’t pretend to be one. There are examples where the Chevron defense was used badly and examples where used in a beneficial way. As I see it though we have a dysfunctional Congress and Congress is not going to be pass
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by skhunted 2y ago
I think you are missing the big picture. This ruling is setting the stage for a new regulatory regime. The lower courts see where this Supreme Court is going and they are going to overturn any regulatory ruling that has any semblance of a
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by skhunted 2y ago
It takes away power from the legislative and executive branches because it now requires an onerous level of specificity to regulate something. This decision will have lasting negative consequences.
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There has always been judicial review in cases where some affected party felt that administrators of an agency went beyond the mandate. This has been the norm for many decades now. The Supreme court legalized foreign money to use in elect
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by skhunted 2y ago
Wouldn't these establishments that subscribed to the service have passed on their costs to customers? They can only do this if they have the pricing power to do so. If there are a sufficient number of sports bars relative to the num
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by skhunted 2y ago
I think the following is a valid question. At least I hope it isn’t completely stupid. Is there a known set theory of the form ZF+(something) which relatively consistent with ZFC in which additive, isometry invariant measures exist? I gues
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by skhunted 2y ago
In ZF+DC is it true that measures satisfy the desirable properties mentioned by Colin? I think the sticking point is isometry invariance. Are there measures in ZF+DC of R^3 that are finitely (countably?) additive and isometry invariant?
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by skhunted 2y ago
If one doesn’t accept the Axiom of Choice but uses instead Dependent Choice the paradox no longer holds. Is it the case in this situation that the 4 desirable properties hold?
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by skhunted 2y ago
We don’t let children buy guns, drive trucks, or drink liquor. I suppose we are all puritanical retards.
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The vast majority of the people I've interacted with don't think hardcore porn should be viewable by children. Those who disagree and welcome to advocate for changing of the law in this regard. It is indisputable though that age
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You think it is still largely intact but what you do is monitored.
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Communities set some standards of behavior. This has been always been true. While the government doesn’t replace parenting it does enforce standards of conduct. Like requiring parents to feed their kids or preventing businesses from sell
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Providing access to hardcore porn to people regardless of their age is a problem.
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Obviously children viewing hardcore porn on Pornhub’s sites.
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Pornhub could have implemented age verification a long time ago and didn’t. It didn’t suggest such a thing despite knowing underage kids were viewing their content. Now they try to act all reasonable. They aren’t a victim in this. They w

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