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by hehhehaha 863 days ago
It genuinely feels like we only ever add laws. There are still states that outlaw sodomy
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There are still states that outlaw sodomy

This is misleading. None of them are legally enforceable. They simply haven’t been struck from the books because it would be entirely performative.

With roe v wade gone, aren't they legally enforceable? The state government owns your body
While Justice Clarence Thomas suggested a rethinking of Lawrence v Texas in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, it hasn't yet been overturned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas

Decades past I was 100% with you. Government seemed to just accrue and accumulate to me, qawas rarely revised. I hungered for a government that can iterate & experiment., can reassess.

Today it feels like there are way more people opposed to governance & laws than at any point in the living past. That terrifies me. Making laws feels harder; Hastert Rule was just the start of non-cooperstion it felt like, & there is now broad unwillingness to legislate reasonably.

And then we get to the court system, where 5th District Court of Appeals & others seem to take rampant delight in pushing over years of precedent to de-govern and disempower the government. All it takes is one judge to unmake decades of law.

Even if 3/4 of the US Code of Federal Regulations become 'disempowered' there's still no way anyone would ever read through, or even understand, half of the remaining pages in force.

I think it's safe to say that would apply to 100% of the HN readerbase.

So it would effectively still be unlimited for any specific individual.