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by zekevermillion
2792 days ago
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I think you'll be surprised at how independent the SCOTUS is. Life appointment. It is always surprising that despite politics and personal flair (thinking Scalia here) the top judges agree on 99.9% of the law. It is only the hard cases that they take, and there is disagreement there. But removing a right that is verbatim protected in the US Constitution is not a hard case at all. You might be worried about the recent Republican appointees who are originalists. But if you're an originalist, or a textualist, I mean there is no ambiguity in the text of the 14th amendment when it comes to citizenship for those "born in" the US. |
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Surprisingly, the Republic nearly withstood a certain event seventeen years ago. It is hard to make predictions (especially about the future), and engineers ought to be naturally pessimistic, but amazingly a lot of what makes this country great is still there. I see a lot of down trends and it's not fun.