Oh hey there. You probably got up early to watch the Supreme Court Spectacular Spectacular again, didn't you? Yesterday's episode sucked if you are black or brown or a worker drone. SPOILER ALERT: Today's episode is way fucking worse. Today's episode is like the series finale of
But I <em>did</em> get a good belly-laugh from the start of Scalia&#039;s dissent in <em>Adoptive Parents vs. Baby Girl</em> (not quite sure what to make of that case name):
<blockquote>I join JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR&rsquo;s dissent except as to one detail. I reject the conclusion that the Court draws from the words &ldquo;continued custody&rdquo; in 25 U. S. C &sect;1912(f) not because &ldquo;literalness may strangle meaning,&rdquo; see post, at 11, but because there is no reason that &ldquo;continued&rdquo; must refer to custody in the past rather than custody in the future.</blockquote>
At first I missed that &quot;not&quot; which made it particularly hilarious, but then we look at how Scalia interprets the word &quot;continued&quot; to not mean continued in any sense. Sure, you can &quot;continue&quot; from present to future, but at the time the determination was made to grant custody of &quot;Baby Girl&quot; to &quot;Biological Father&quot;, there was no present custody to &quot;continue&quot; into the future. In other words, while Scalia rejects that &quot;literalness may strangle meaning&quot;, he has decided to reject literalness apparently because he feels it may strangle meaning. <em>This one time</em>, of course, and not where such an approach might lead down a path which doesn&#039;t reach his preferred conclusion.
Hmm. Jackson (the capital) was 79% African American in the 2010 census. So the local county election-commissioners-of-color could probably get away with setting some creative criteria for voter registration now, right?
Polls in predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhoods will now be open from 5:30 AM to 5:50 AM, and if you&#039;re in line when the polls close that&#039;s just too bad. Oh, and you&#039;ll have to show a long-form birf cert, a letter from the police chief stating that you don&#039;t have any parking tickets, and current vehicle registration to go with your drivers license.
Sounds fair.
In Republican precincts, the country club will serve as the polling place, and the usual admission restrictions will apply.
Drinking now.
Everything is terrible.
But I <em>did</em> get a good belly-laugh from the start of Scalia&#039;s dissent in <em>Adoptive Parents vs. Baby Girl</em> (not quite sure what to make of that case name):
<blockquote>I join JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR&rsquo;s dissent except as to one detail. I reject the conclusion that the Court draws from the words &ldquo;continued custody&rdquo; in 25 U. S. C &sect;1912(f) not because &ldquo;literalness may strangle meaning,&rdquo; see post, at 11, but because there is no reason that &ldquo;continued&rdquo; must refer to custody in the past rather than custody in the future.</blockquote>
At first I missed that &quot;not&quot; which made it particularly hilarious, but then we look at how Scalia interprets the word &quot;continued&quot; to not mean continued in any sense. Sure, you can &quot;continue&quot; from present to future, but at the time the determination was made to grant custody of &quot;Baby Girl&quot; to &quot;Biological Father&quot;, there was no present custody to &quot;continue&quot; into the future. In other words, while Scalia rejects that &quot;literalness may strangle meaning&quot;, he has decided to reject literalness apparently because he feels it may strangle meaning. <em>This one time</em>, of course, and not where such an approach might lead down a path which doesn&#039;t reach his preferred conclusion.
he certainly didn&#039;t help matters, nor did Slick Willie
Yes and Yes.
&quot; How many balls have to hit us in the face &quot;
wouldn&#039;t that make us tea baggers?
well, think about who would be sitting where sotomayor and kagan are. we&#039;d have 7 to 2 all the fucking time.
Hmm. Jackson (the capital) was 79% African American in the 2010 census. So the local county election-commissioners-of-color could probably get away with setting some creative criteria for voter registration now, right?
Perhaps Paula could be induced to deep-fry Justice Scalia.
Prop 8 and DOMA opinions tomorrow morning. There&#039;s at least a fighting chance that the Court will split in the right direction on them.
ETA: Hah, called it!
â« I&#039;ll loathe you twice as much tomorrow â« â« Whoa-oh â« â« Loathe you more than I can say â«
Those activist legislators oughta remember their place.
So - high-fives at Niggerhead Ranch, tonight...?
Accidents of birth have consequences.
People have got to stop whining for the Supremes to take care of them, too, also.
What, and live in Stephen Harper land?
But guys, they&#039;ve TOTALLY changed. Clarence Thomas said so.
They&#039;re super sorry that they tried to take away all those voting rights that one time.
And that other time, and then that time they tried to do it again. And all those other times...
But they have really <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=yADrtfAmLTo" target="_blank">changed</a> this time, you&#039;ll see.
Polls in predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhoods will now be open from 5:30 AM to 5:50 AM, and if you&#039;re in line when the polls close that&#039;s just too bad. Oh, and you&#039;ll have to show a long-form birf cert, a letter from the police chief stating that you don&#039;t have any parking tickets, and current vehicle registration to go with your drivers license.
Sounds fair.
In Republican precincts, the country club will serve as the polling place, and the usual admission restrictions will apply.