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[-] hark@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

The right to not be genocided... apparently negotiable.

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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

Bet you they try to repeal Loving v. Virginia too. They'll "leave it up to the states" I'm sure, so that them and their rich buddies can keep their partners. Looking at you, Mitch.

I am emptied of all faith in their humanity or good sense.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 days ago

Why are all basic civil rights not enshrined in laws, but instead resting on brittle law precedents in the US?

[-] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Because it’s all imaginary and I can’t believe people seek comfort in a piece of paper and the concept of rule of law.

A strongman, such as potentially trump but it could be any authoritarian in any country - will just wipe his ass with the constitution and do whatever the fuck he wants. It’s not like the law is going to stop him. He’s a convicted felon and he’s still going to be president despite that. And the J6 case (the only one with any real merit, IMO) that they had four years to prosecute is now dropped.

Laws don’t matter. Laws don’t protect you. Laws exist to protect the in group and punish the out group.

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Because our legislature is dysfunctional in its very structuring.

The simulation ran out of computational power and this is AI trying to use the last 0.1% of the Neural Processing Unit to continue generating a story...

Clarence Thomas rulling his own marriage illegal? 🤔

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

Privileged people like him will certainly expect there to be workaround and loopholes. He'd just get a marriage cert in a state that allows it. Depend on it.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 15 points 2 days ago

In the abortion ruling, Thomas listed off a whole bunch of civil rights-related rulings he wanted to revisit. Obergefell (gay marriage) was among them. Loving, however, was conspicuously absent, and there's a pretty obvious reason why.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I don't doubt it. However if Trump's team sent it down the pipe, I doubt he'd fight much - even a principled man finds it difficult to stand up to their friends, and that he ain't.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't think they'll send it down the pipe, or be successful if they try. The process tends to have to start at the lower courts and work their way up. In all likelihood, lower courts would simply strike it down, and the appeals court wouldn't see any reason to change that.

There are ways to skip those intermediate steps, and they could certainly try to invent a whole new process just for the case. But when one of their biggest allies on the court has a clear reason to be against it, why even try? They have a hundred other cases they'd rather do to hurt people. If you follow the domino metaphor in OP, then Loving is way towards the back.

[-] Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

That's definitely one way to get a divorce

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[-] inv3r510n@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

“Leaving it up to the states” is how we ended up with gay marriage being legalized federally by the scotus….

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

I'm sure this one will get right on that.

[-] ManixT@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Unless that group is Pro-Palestine, then literally every other group can look out for themselves because logic be damned.

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[-] Grogon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Gotta gotta gotta go, true sounds, of a revolution,...

Was in my pyjama and haven't heard Agnost Front the last 20 years so thanks for reminding me of this song.

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