The Supreme Court conducted a vile smear against the noble state of Arizona today by shooting down most of SB 1070, the law that restricts illegal Mexicans from existing.
3/5ths wasn&#039;t exactly <em>removed</em>, per se, but the &quot;all other persons&quot; category to which it applied was eliminated when Abe Lincoln shifted most of them into the &quot;free Persons, excluding indians not taxed&quot; category and the 13th Amendment completed the process and prohibited them from being moved back.
I&#039;m guessing the proportion of the subset of the population which has &quot;syzygy&quot; in their productive vocabulary who are also Scrabble players (or I guess these days &quot;Words with Friends&quot;, <em>as if there&#039;s a difference</em>) is quite high.
&ldquo;This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is &lsquo;actually&rsquo; innocent.&rdquo;
Their intellectual dishonesty is why they were appointed. It&#039;s a feature, not a bug.
For proof, note the 5-4 party-line decision that it&#039;s OK for billionaires to buy elections for Republicans, even in Montana. I have no doubt whatsover these fuckers would have voted the other way, if it was Democrats getting the billions.
I agree, they can&#039;t die or retire soon enough.
What makes you think he didn&#039;t? Have you checked out <a href="http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/13\/sheldon_adelson_big_money_bogeyman\/" target="_blank">Sheldon Adelson</a>, the guy Scalia just greenlighted for the purchase of elections?
No it&#039;s not wrong - I fervently wish that one day Scalia has a cilice-induced fever dream wherein his delusion of God tells him something that the God he should&#039;ve been reading about in the New Testament might say, and in that epiphany he realizes the dreadful harm he&#039;s done and continues to do and does the honorable thing and retires immediately to go join a Benedictine monastery.
Scalia&#039;s the biggest lover of the death penalty on the court, though, what with his fetish for still executing people who have subsequently proven their innocence.
3/5ths wasn&#039;t exactly <em>removed</em>, per se, but the &quot;all other persons&quot; category to which it applied was eliminated when Abe Lincoln shifted most of them into the &quot;free Persons, excluding indians not taxed&quot; category and the 13th Amendment completed the process and prohibited them from being moved back.
He says that doesn&#039;t count because states are sovereign, independent nations derp.
I&#039;m guessing the proportion of the subset of the population which has &quot;syzygy&quot; in their productive vocabulary who are also Scrabble players (or I guess these days &quot;Words with Friends&quot;, <em>as if there&#039;s a difference</em>) is quite high.
Also that in light of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, Dred Scott is no longer controlling.
Yes indeed:
&ldquo;This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is &lsquo;actually&rsquo; innocent.&rdquo;
You mean Viagra isn&#039;t a constitutional right?
Yeah, but...Originalism!
It&#039;s OK, he can still be the Original Asshole.
Their intellectual dishonesty is why they were appointed. It&#039;s a feature, not a bug.
For proof, note the 5-4 party-line decision that it&#039;s OK for billionaires to buy elections for Republicans, even in Montana. I have no doubt whatsover these fuckers would have voted the other way, if it was Democrats getting the billions.
I agree, they can&#039;t die or retire soon enough.
Wondering, or wishful thinking?
If nothing else, the man is consistent.
What makes you think he didn&#039;t? Have you checked out <a href="http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/13\/sheldon_adelson_big_money_bogeyman\/" target="_blank">Sheldon Adelson</a>, the guy Scalia just greenlighted for the purchase of elections?
No it&#039;s not wrong - I fervently wish that one day Scalia has a cilice-induced fever dream wherein his delusion of God tells him something that the God he should&#039;ve been reading about in the New Testament might say, and in that epiphany he realizes the dreadful harm he&#039;s done and continues to do and does the honorable thing and retires immediately to go join a Benedictine monastery.
Look, mommy, no violence! ;)
Scalia&#039;s the biggest lover of the death penalty on the court, though, what with his fetish for still executing people who have subsequently proven their innocence.
Not if they&#039;re campaign finance laws, obviously.
Someone remind him Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned, please, before he decides to cite it next.