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Everything posted by horncyclist
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Birthright Citizenship
Neither of those are as clear as you just said, which is the problem of textualism. Plain language is never plain. Heller and the longstanding understanding it overturned shows that.
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Birthright Citizenship
This reminds me some of the movement that led to Heller redefining the 2nd Amendment to protect an individual right to bear arms. A lot more ground work had been laid there but there are similar originalism arguments for the 14th to overturn 150 years of precedent and an earlier Supreme Court case. The thing about originalism is you often have your pick of original interpretations so it can be a vehicle for activisim. Here they'll focus on "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" to exclude undocumented immigrants. It's not a totally far fetched argument, though it goes against mainstream legal thinking. That the second amendment protected an individual right also went against mainstream legal scholarship and we know how that turned out. Both the majority and dissent in Heller relied on originalist arguments. There's also a lot of dumbing down in the media of what Trump would actually do with an EO. It wouldn't change the 14th amendment. An EO would setup a legal challenge that could eventually lead to, depending on your views a reinterpretation or clarification of the 14th amendment. It's just like states passing laws to test Roe. There may be other issues with executive power and if an EO is contrary to a statute providing for birthright citizenship but those are different issues than this idea of changing the constitution by EO. Trump, or at least his handlers, know that's not possible. The policy of birthright citizenship is also a lot more complicated. Birth tourism is clearly problematic but the certainty birthright provides is important. Eliminating birthright citizenship would drastically expand the number of people who, like the dreamers, are American in every day but under the law. That's a big problem.
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2018 - Elections and Trends
You serious? Manchin in trouble? He's up by like 12. You're not paying attention at all.
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2018 - Elections and Trends
Seems like theres a trend back to democrats in the close Senate races? I can haz Senate majority?
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Cruz vs Beto
Heidi. She could finally get that second house.
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Donald Trump 2018
Get ready for some good ol not activist at all textualism and originalism doing some work with "subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
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Donald Trump 2018
So a lot of Jews in Pittsburgh are begging Trump not to come, or at least wait, and he's coming anyway: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/10/29/he-is-not-welcome-here-thousands-support-pittsburgh-jewish-leaders-calling-trump-denounce-white-nationalism/
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Voter Suppression
https://www.propublica.org/article/reports-of-voter-intimidation-at-polling-places-in-texas
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2018 - Elections and Trends
https://www.propublica.org/article/reports-of-voter-intimidation-at-polling-places-in-texas Remind me again which side is the mob?
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Cruz vs Beto
I hear he likes it with peas. That's what people are saying anyway.
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2018 - Elections and Trends
It's insane this has been a known problem and they did shit to fix it. It doesn't matter if it's user error or software, this sort of thing should not be happening.
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Cruz vs Beto
Has to this model been tested? Is it using Texas primary voting data?
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Cruz vs Beto
How are they determining no party affiliation?
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2018 - Elections and Trends
Who would have thought young people in Travis county would be so upset about how Kavanaugh was treated?
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Mail bombs CR thread
Incredible that it's the democrats being labeled extremists.
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Mail bombs CR thread
The caning of Charles Sumner got a lot of high profile praise. Unfortunately, the Civil War started a few years later. That's probably a sign of where we're at. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
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Mail bombs CR thread
40 million views. 561k likes. Again, some nut taking him seriously was inevitable. The president is to blame here and all republicans are complicit.
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Mail bombs CR thread
In legal terms, Trump was the but for cause of this terrorism. Without him and his rhetoric, these.bombs are not sent.
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Mail bombs CR thread
That softball field was in my fucking backyard and every single person around here, most liberal democrats were outraged. Trump is guiltier than anyone for fomenting violence and he does so from the most prominent position in the world. There's a reason blame should be placed squarely on him. This was inevitable.
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Mail bombs CR thread
Wonder how many times he attacked the bomb recipients/media or otherwise encouraged violence at that rally?
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Mail bombs CR thread
So mentally handicapped, probably schizophrenic. Repubs are gonna go with the mental health angle. Unfortunately, most of the traits exhibited by this guy would apply to Trump and supporters.
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Mail bombs CR thread
Yeah, this it. The back is the same. Whoever guessed MAGA UNC soccer enthusiast, you win.
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2018 - Elections and Trends
Meanwhile: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/26/investing/stock-market-today-dow-nasdaq-amazon/index.html.
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Mail bombs CR thread
MAGA bomber confirmed? False flag narrators went a little overboard with the stickers. Totally not believable.
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2018 - Elections and Trends
So there's a 12 point difference between Patrick v Collier and Cruz v Beto. Those have to be split ticket republicans, no? Seems like Beto could find 6% in new/unlikely voters to pit him over the top. How many would that be?