SCOTUS decisions

[sailordeac]

Let's just let words mean whatever I want them to mean. It will make communication very clear. It'll be cool.

[deaconson]

sailordeach. sharpest tool in the shed.

[Shooshmoo]

No legal scholar here, but originalism has always seemed a scam.

It always has been.

[Deaconblue]

You know, just maybe at some point in the 20th Century - say, around the 1950s and 1960s, the time of the Civil Rights Movement - large numbers of Southern Democrats suddenly started voting Republican. And a number of Southern Democratic politicians, like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, switched to the GOP, and by the 80s and 90s the region, and most of white rural America, had become solid red Republican. But, hey, Jim Crow Democrats something Robert Byrd KKK something Gov. Northam blackface something.

A little of in timing. Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965) were the big catalysts. Northern Democrats were joined by enough Republicans to break the Southern Democrats filibusters. Then Nixon used the " southern strategy" to win in 1968 and then again in 1972 when McGovern ran as an anti-war left wing Democrat.

[wakephan09]

It always has been.

Wait, are you saying it was *originally* a scam!?

[Gooner]

Thomas' latest nutjob argument is that social media sites removing content violates the First Amendment

[Shooshmoo]

"I'll take judicial activism for $1000, Aaron Rodgers."