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WTF is up with the SCOTUS today?

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Re: WTF is up with the SCOTUS today?
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2020, 06:06:59 PM »
Barrett is a "ninja" at evading questions.  Impressive to watch.


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Re: WTF is up with the SCOTUS today?
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2020, 07:47:52 PM »
Which questions did she evade that you would like straight answers on?
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Re: WTF is up with the SCOTUS today?
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2020, 08:33:09 PM »
I think my favorite was that old "I'm Not a Scientist" chestnut.

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Re: WTF is up with the SCOTUS today?
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2020, 08:44:03 PM »
Agreed.


I'm not sure I understand the uproar. If the Dems have the White House and the Senate they'll nominate and approve, while the Republicans cry foul, just like the Republicans are doing now.

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Re: WTF is up with the SCOTUS today?
« Reply #19 on: October 21, 2020, 02:35:07 AM »
I don't think Citizens United was wrong so much as I think personhood for corporations is wrong (and that's certainly a problem).


Citizens United was an absolutely horrible decision. Almost as bad as Kelo vs. City of New London.The last thing America needed was the massive & largely unchecked increase in special interest funds lining the pockets and bolstering financial accounts of politicians/candidates, making said recipients even more beholden to the whims of their often anonymous (to the average person) Super PAC Sugar Daddies. Clearly the exponential increase in bribes donations isn't providing the country with better candidates who put the interests of the country ahead of their own; on the contrary, Super PAC funding have probably prevented financially-challenged, but otherwise often better qualified candidates from successfully running against their well-backed puppets.




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Re: WTF is up with the SCOTUS today?
« Reply #20 on: October 21, 2020, 09:02:52 AM »
Kelo is probably the case I reference most in message board arguments.

It's an excellent example of judicial restraint.