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Virgiebeach's avatar

oh rofl, you're baaaaad! XD

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Dr. Rags's avatar

Tomorrow's story.

"Republicans in VA. file suit to enjoin the new lgbtq law. Supreme Court issues permanent injunction and promises swift consideration."

Next day.

"In a 5-4 vote, scotus declares VA. law an unconstitutional abridgement of religious freedom."

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Dr. Rags's avatar

HELLO, SAVIOR!!

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Querolous's avatar

♫ You've got to be taught before it's too late,

Before you are six or seven or eight,

To hate all the people your relatives hate,

You've got to be carefully taught! ♫

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Stroke1's avatar

That love child would be pretty hot, too.

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Stroke1's avatar

Sometimes I give them a long answer, just to see the discomfort. I like to say, ''I'm adequate, thank you, but I'm the best they've got.''

Hee. My stroke affected my now-useless right arm and right leg. But you wouldn't know from looking at me that anything was wrong. So when people tell me, ''You look good,'' and they do, lots, I say thanks, but what I think is, ''What, you were expecting this?''

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Crip Dyke, ABOLISH THE POLICE's avatar

What do you know about the state of the SCotCV? (CV = Commonwealth of Virginia, b/c they're uppity like that.)

They could still file a suit in state court and get a ruling from SCOTCV, if they felt it was to their advantage. Because they love democratic votes, y'know?

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L. Ron Pony  🇺🇦's avatar

Virginia is fast becoming one of the best states in the Union, and by far the best state in the Old South. I don't know why, but I applaud it.

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L. Ron Pony  🇺🇦's avatar

Geez, put the brakes on. It takes time to get from the 19th century to the 21st. I'm sure that's in the pipe for next week.

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L. Ron Pony  🇺🇦's avatar

While below the Mason-Dixon line, MD threw their lot in with the Union. What that means culturally I have NO idea.

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L. Ron Pony  🇺🇦's avatar

Or 9th, if possible.

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Michael Repetto's avatar

Lol, you’d better be careful about what you think because, if you’re like I’m finding out about myself, as you get older, those thoughts that used to stay well locked up, just kind of jump out of your mouth. But that’s not all bad!

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Crip Dyke, ABOLISH THE POLICE's avatar

It would basically boil down to whether the new law supplants the older one. Rendering it obsolete.

You're thinking of leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant, which is indeed a thing and does indeed apply to statutory interpretation in Virginia courts.

Technically, however, I'm not sure it would apply. The RFRA is essentially a statutory interpretation statute. When you have two different rules (in this case rules of interpretation) that might apply, the courts would almost certainly consider the principle Generalia specialibus non derogant ("the general rule does not overrule the specific one"). In this case, the RFRA would be the more specific rule of interpretation and leges posteriores would be the more general.

So the RFRA might restrict the applicability of the new law after all. We'll have to wait and see how much.

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goCatgo's avatar

It is getting a lot better. A lot of govt stuff and govt employees live in Northern VA. Norfolk has a lot of Navy stuff and related business. The colleges are well respected. Sadly, VA Tech may have woke some up.

For me, the only time I felt good there was at the Tides AAA baseball games. But I am a little weird.

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goCatgo's avatar

Yep, you are getting there. Remember, Rome didn't burn in a day.

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Crip Dyke, ABOLISH THE POLICE's avatar

Unless the next step is to repeal the state "mini-RFRA"

Fuck yeah. That would be nice.

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