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@AdamParkhomenko @AlexanderMcCoy4 That's only a good argument if you're not intellectually curious enough to have read the decision.
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Mark A Boyle
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Mark A Boyle
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Husband, Father, Son and Lawyer. If you are hoping to discuss law, politics or philosophy, I am likely leading with Liberty! #gobucs #gobolts #gobulls #raysup
Florida, USA Katılım Şubat 2011
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Mark A Boyle retweetledi
Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
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Mark A Boyle retweetledi
This is the ultimate midwit healthcare take.
No, 32 countries have not “figured out” universal healthcare.
The UK has “free” healthcare, and roughly 1 in 3 cancer patients in England still fail to start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral.
Canada has “free” healthcare, and the median wait for neurosurgical treatment is around a year.
Australia has “free” healthcare, and over half the country still buys private insurance despite paying for a public universal system with their taxes.
Switzerland has universal coverage, because residents are required to buy private insurance. There is no government system where benevolent bureaucrats tuck you in at night with a warm blanket and an MRI appointment.
The actual lesson from other wealthy countries is not “they figured it out.”
America’s system has huge problems. Our prices are insane, insurance markets are distorted, and hospital systems are cartelized. Our regulations make care more expensive than it needs to be.
Yet we still guarantee access to even the 8% who don’t have coverage. We give easy routes to qualify for medicaid for those with disabilities.
Pretending the rest of the world solved healthcare because they slapped the word “universal” on a rationing scheme is not analysis.
It is bumper sticker policy for people who think access means having a card in your wallet while you wait a year to see the doctor you need.
daz@MetamateDaz
Free Universal Healthcare is so complicated and expensive that only 32 of the 33 wealthiest countries in the world have figured it out.
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@WonderbeardShow @AdamParkhomenko @AlexanderMcCoy4 The opinion goes into great detail about the admissions at oral argument on this point. This point was directly conceded at oral argument as @WonderbeardShow correctly notes.
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@markboyle005886 @AdamParkhomenko @AlexanderMcCoy4 Or listen to the oral arguments when the state made that same stupid argument and the court corrected them.
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The best argument re: Virginia decision I’ve heard is this:
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@brianros1 A specific provision of your state constitution prohibiting rushed through amendments, which provision also was approved by the voters, is not a 'technicality'.
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This is wholly unconvincing. Once the voters decide something by majority votes, invalidating that via technicality is just bad for our system of government. If they wanted to change the process moving forward, they could’ve done that. Instead they went hackish.
Sarah Isgur@whignewtons
Here’s their answer…
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@SeanTrende @Bhartrihari_ @brianros1 I probably prefer our rule in Florida where we have a pre-election determination of some of these issues, but that's not how they do it in Virginia. That's not how they've ever done it in Virginia.
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There would be 100 traditional legal/appellate barriers to changing the rule (regarding pre adoption determinations) based on the arguments that were made anyway. There's a preservation failure, waiver, judicial estoppel...... I could go on and on. The opinion is very detailed that they got the Virginia Supreme Court advocate on behalf of the amendment to admit all of this in oral argument and set that admission out in the opinion in detail.
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@brianros1 I've been screaming for a month that this just isn't how Virginia works, or how it has ever worked. The state was right that they couldn't pass on the constitutionality of a referendum before it was actually law. They aren't going to change procedure because of an outcome.
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🚨 Virginia Democrats indicate that they will appeal today's ruling invalidating the redistricting referendum to the United States Supreme Court.
They ask the Virginia Supreme Court to withhold its mandate.
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@charlescwcooke @philipaklein When she figures out the threshold over, which no one can "earn", I would love to be apprised of that exact number.
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Mark A Boyle retweetledi
AOC says "you can’t earn a billion dollars, you just can’t earn that." Thankfully, this is not true. Worse still, in practice it is the same thing as telling someone that they can’t do the thing that would make them a billion dollars. nationalreview.com/2026/05/you-di…
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@NickMinock I understand you are politician, but you're also a lawyer with a duty of candor. This statement doesn't mean that duty.
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NEW: Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones said in a statement:
"Today the Supreme Court of Virginia has chosen to put politics over the rule of law by issuing a ruling that overturns the April 21st special election on redistricting. This decision silences the voices of the millions of Virginians who cast their ballots in every corner of the Commonwealth, and it fuels the growing fears across our nation about the state of our democracy.
As Attorney General, it is my job to enforce the laws on the books and defend the will of the people. Before the Court, my office clearly laid out both in filings and oral arguments that this constitutional amendment process and voter ratification occurred in a timely, constitutionally-compliant, and legally sound manner.”
Nick Minock@NickMinock
🚨The Virginia Supreme Court ruled against Democrats’ redistricting effort and it appears Democrats 10-1 gerrymandered map is dead. “According to the majority, the General Assembly violated the intervening-election requirement in Article XII, Section 1 of the Virginia Constitution by passing a proposed constitutional amendment for the first time after early voters had begun casting their ballots during the 2025 general election. Although Article IV, Section 3 mandates that delegates shall be elected on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November, the majority takes the position that there is a material variation between "shall be elected" and the "general election" described in Article XII Section 1. It reasons that, unlike the single day on which a delegate is elected, a general election is not a fixed day. Instead, they conclude that an election is a cumulative process, encompassing the combined actions of voters casting ballots and officers receiving those votes, that begins on the first day of early voting and ends on Election Day. By focusing on the legislative history, dictionary definitions, and how legal scholars might interpret the term "election," the majority fails to apply the most basic tenet of interpretation of constitutional provisions: looking to the language of the constitution itself.”
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Mark A Boyle retweetledi
Wow. They found a spine. The rule of law isn’t dead after all.
Eric W.@EWess92
Huge win for Democracy and the Virginia Constitution. The Virginia-mander has been found to be illegal for several reasons. Glad to see the Virginia Supreme Court stick to following Rule of Law.
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Mark A Boyle retweetledi
Obama: Attorney general is ‘not the president’s consigliere’
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Mark A Boyle retweetledi
What? South Carolina has a black Senator. His name is Tim Scott. He’s a Republican. You can’t gerrymander Senate seats. What world do these people live in?
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Katyal is wrong. SCOTUS struck down FDR's signature initiative, the NIRA, unanimously in Schechter Poultry
Neal Katyal@neal_katyal
Five months ago, I argued against the President's $4 trillion tariffs at the Supreme Court. In 237 years, the Court had never struck down a sitting President's signature initiative. Legal scholars said it was impossible. Some of my own colleagues said it was impossible. We won. 6-3. But the real story isn't what happened in that courtroom. It's what happened in the months before. And its the subject of my TED talk, coming out tomorrow. I had the best legal team in the nation, especially Colleen Roh Sinzdak, the most outstanding legal strategist I know. Huge thanks, too, go to the Liberty Justice Center (and in particular its fearless and hyper-intelligent leader Sara Albrecht), who organized the client small businesses, as well as to the brave small businesses themselves. I also had four teachers preparing me. A mindset coach who'd worked with Andre Agassi. An improv coach who taught me that "Yes, and" works in Supreme Court arguments the same way it works everywhere else. A meditation coach who taught me stillness. And Harvey. Harvey predicted many of the questions the Justices asked — sometimes almost word for word. Brilliant. Tireless. Occasionally insufferable. Here's the catch: Harvey isn't a person. Harvey is a bespoke AI I built over the last year with a legal AI company, trained on every question every Justice has asked in oral argument for 25 years, and everything they've ever written. Tomorrow, TED releases my talk about what really happened — and what I learned standing at that podium. AI can predict. AI can analyze. What AI cannot do is the one thing that actually won the argument. Connect. Read the room. Hear not just a Justice's words, but her worry — and answer the worry. That is the irreducibly human skill. Find yours. Go deeper. In this age of AI, that's where your edge lives. The talk goes live Thursday, May 7 at 11am ET: go.ted.com/nealkumarkatyal What's the irreducibly human skill in your work — the thing AI can't touch?
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Mark A Boyle retweetledi
Love that Vassy is pissed!
No excuses.
Gino Hard@GinoHard_
Jon Cooper might NEVER use the term “hockey gods” again 😭
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Mark A Boyle retweetledi
Spit balling here, but perhaps the genuinely socialist mayor sees potentially putting private grocery stores out of business as a feature rather than a bug.
Amanda Macias@amanda_m_macias
Mayor Mamdani's plan to open a city-run grocery store is facing pushback from East Harlem grocers, who say the area is already saturated. About 45 grocery stores are within a 35-minute walk of the proposed site.
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