Or Griswold. Lawrence v. Texas. Obergefell. Mapp v. Ohio. Brown v. Board. Or even NLRB v Jones:my grandparents were driving in one of the orange states here in the fifties and when they got pulled over they hid my baby aunt in the trunk. didn't learn this story until a few years ago. https://t.co/acOdnME9cu pic.twitter.com/gA5oP1aqTt
— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) March 22, 2022
One begins to wonder which "sort of plebiscite" is the one prevailing on the current bench of the highest court in the land. And which one will they understand prevails from this hearing?Right now, Mike Lee is railing against NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp, which is the SCOTUS decision that permits the ban on child labor, the ban on whites-only lunch counters, the ban on employment discrimination, and the minimum wage to exist.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) March 23, 2022
I can't remember who it was during the Thomas confirmation hearing who noted a case, and I can't remember which one, that Thomas had criticized which would have limited the First Amendment to federal law, meaning that a state could impose the death penalty for certain speech if it wanted to and under Thomas' reasoning, the federal courts would be powerless to overturn it. These Republican-fascists are a lot worse than the Court reporters with their phony piety about the Court, the courts and the Constitution would ever feel we needed to know about.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if I have a few extra hours I'll look it up in the record, talk about something that's hard to plow through.