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[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 12 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Cuomo in NY during COVID forced the production of hand sanitizer by ~~slave~~prison labor and Gruesome Newsom forces ~~slave~~prison labor to fight forest fires so you know what, maybe the 14th amendment kind of sucks because it lets everyone pretend that slavery did get abolished and it's a "solved problem"

So yeah you know what fuck it, let the fascists rule that a constitutional amendment is unconstitutional and blow up the Constitution through a paradox (how can the constitution itself be unconstitutional?)

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

Dogma (1999)

[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 32 points 3 hours ago

Pretty sure she's just saying an originalist would have to oppose the existence of West Virginia to be ideologically consistent. Expecting any American politician to have an ideology is lib shit though

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 4 points 58 minutes ago

How long until she declares the Louisiana Purchase unconstitutional at this rate? sicko-intrigued

[-] _pi@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah Antonin Scalia was a textualist until he wasn't, until he was again, until he wasn't.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

Every "originalist"/"textualist" is this way. It's an inherently dishonest position based entirely on finding any excuse to push reaction through the judiciary.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 27 points 3 hours ago

claims to be an originalist

does judicial review

very-intelligent

[-] _pi@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 hours ago

Listen everything Scalia wrote was ideologically consistent because it used the same verbiage as Bush V Gore, "limited to present circumstances".

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 7 points 1 hour ago

ah, a personal favorite,

this ruling sets no precedent because I decided it doesn't

The kind of thing produced by a very real and legitimate court system and definitely not just 9 unaccountable, unelected elders making decisions on a whim.

[-] edge@hexbear.net 10 points 2 hours ago

until he wasn't

crab-party

[-] edge@hexbear.net 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I don't really see why. Multiple states had previously been split from existing states without controversy (including Kentucky also split from Virginia). All that's required is the approval of the state legislature and Congress. The Virginia state legislature as recognized by Congress and the President voted to allow the counties of West Virginia to leave and form their own state. Congress and the President approved.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 20 points 3 hours ago

49 state flag vendors salivating

[-] OperationOgre@hexbear.net 11 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah

[-] regul@hexbear.net 14 points 3 hours ago

They haven't been this horned up since the 248 days before the admission of Hawaii in 1959.

[-] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 37 points 4 hours ago

If I were a us supreme court justice in 2024 I would be pretty careful when throwing around words like ‘illegitimate.’

[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 25 points 4 hours ago
[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 10 points 3 hours ago
[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 5 points 2 hours ago

rocz-yes Maybury v. Madison was wrongly decided

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 44 points 4 hours ago

I'd posit that the entirety of the US is illegitimate, but it is amusing that people who believe in adhering to every single letter in a document authored 250 years ago are taken remotely seriously

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 2 points 56 minutes ago

the arguably unconstitutional United States of America

[-] urmums401k@hexbear.net 17 points 4 hours ago

Yes but if your entire intelligence plusca few high end gpu's are turned to the task of justifying whatever you currently feel, and that is the entire purpose of everything in the world, then you can totally pick and choose.

They really are brilliantly stupid, and I mean it when I say that.

[-] Zoift@hexbear.net 9 points 3 hours ago

This is the medium domino in the chain that leads to the full cardinality of Virginia.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 9 points 2 hours ago

"western virginia" breaks the meter of Country Roads sadness

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

"West Makaha" doesn't and that version's better anyway israel-cool

[-] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 43 points 5 hours ago

How tf is an amendment illegitimate? It’s an amendment. It amends the constitution

[-] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 22 points 3 hours ago

I’m going to introduce an amendment to the constitution that reads, “this amendment is unconstitutional”. Boom. Instant constitutional crisis.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 9 points 2 hours ago

paradoxical constitutional shenanigans let's goooo

[-] Chronicon@hexbear.net 17 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

lonk: https://www.valleydude70.com/blog-1/2020/9/29/amy-comey-barrett-and-the-fourteenth-amendment

If they claim the 14th is illegitimate but make no such claim about the 13th and 15th, it's just what @urmums401k said. If they claim all 3 are illegitimate they're a fucking confederate sympathizer and should be tarred and feathered as such

[-] context@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago

no this is great because if original popular sovereignty is the basis of legitimacy then she's definitely endorsing the idea that the united states itself is completely illegitimate. the constitution was imposed on the american people without the support of the necessary supermajority of those same people, since a supermajority of them were explicitly denied enfranchisement by that very constitution.

[-] urmums401k@hexbear.net 27 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yes but see its inconvenient for me, so, you know.

Illegitimate.

[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 26 points 4 hours ago

Yeah buddy sure. You vs a Supreme Court justice. Who am I supposed to believe?

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 13 points 4 hours ago
[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 18 points 4 hours ago

President Xi, the people of western Virginia yearn for freedom

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 12 points 4 hours ago

West Virginiastan Independence Movement

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 5 points 3 hours ago

Please provide a link to the source of this

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