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RE: The SCOTUS Chronicles
June 27, 2025 at 3:27 pm
(June 27, 2025 at 1:13 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (June 27, 2025 at 1:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: They - the appellants - were clever enough not to bring the case on 14th Amendment grounds.
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Right, by making their appeal about judicial overreach they tailored their grounds to the conservative ears of the majority.
The plus side to this travesty of a decision is that there doesn’t seem to be any bar to a district judge enforcing birthright citizenship within the confines of their own district.
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RE: The SCOTUS Chronicles
June 27, 2025 at 3:33 pm
Oh well...
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The SCOTUS Chronicles
June 27, 2025 at 8:25 pm
The march toward dictatorship continues
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RE: The SCOTUS Chronicles
June 28, 2025 at 4:16 am
(June 28, 2025 at 12:18 am)Jackalope Wrote: (June 27, 2025 at 3:27 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The plus side to this travesty of a decision is that there doesn’t seem to be any bar to a district judge enforcing birthright citizenship within the confines of their own district.
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The flip side of that is the Balkanization of America.
Maybe that's overdue.
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RE: The SCOTUS Chronicles
June 28, 2025 at 10:40 am
Start with California. Most people in the US seem to hate the place. That's halfway there.
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RE: The SCOTUS Chronicles
June 28, 2025 at 1:06 pm
(June 28, 2025 at 10:40 am)Fireball Wrote: Start with California. Most people in the US seem to hate the place. That's halfway there.
Google images has some interesting hypothetical maps of what a Balkanized US would look like.
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RE: The SCOTUS Chronicles
June 28, 2025 at 2:38 pm
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I'd be more interested in seeing what the rest of the maps looked like when a us with multiple personality disorders, each individually capable of glassing the planet, starts making warring existential demands on the rest of the globe. The solution to our problems, and to the worlds problems that involve us, by extension, isn't to give the nazis half the country. That makes shit worse for everyone, not better.
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RE: The SCOTUS Chronicles
June 28, 2025 at 2:40 pm
I still see this thread roll around and read the title as "The Scrotum Chronicles".
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