@bhweingarten Are they "persons"?
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They are counted. It's really that simple.
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braindance
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Critical outstanding question raised by the Court's disastrous Birthright Citizenship ruling: What does it suggest, if anything, about how the Court will rule on whether non-citizens must or can be counted in the census?
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"IMF exists to impose capitalist ideology" sounds like a typical leftslop but what is the logical explanation for this. They literally were just giving out money to anyone as long as they promise to shut down hospitals and schools.
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@kool79165 @meadowmagpie @DuckBurger4 In the Congo the government collapsed because the west stopped propping up Mobutu and there were two civil wars killing 6 million+ people.
So your question is why things didn't develop quicker after 30 years of robber barons and millions dead?
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@braindance2020 @meadowmagpie @DuckBurger4 Why did basically every African nation devolve into a dictatorship after decolonization when most of Asia didn’t?
And why did they keep failing to improve after most of the continent democratized in the 90s?
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@kool79165 @meadowmagpie @DuckBurger4 The western bankers throwing money at dictators in exchange for access to mineral resources and political influence surely have nothing to do with it
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@meadowmagpie @DuckBurger4 It’s been 60+ years since decolonization and the only people responsible for a lack of diversification in Africa during that timespans has been Africans themselves
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@fartagaz There's one easy way to resolve this, let's call Kleya Marki
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@LetCounty @egoldstein93 Finally someone who advocates for an end to all zoning laws!
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if it costs [number i made up] to fix an apartment's problem, but the rent is [another number i made up], then [conclusion that i already believed]
Carl@HistoryBoomer
If it costs $10,000 to fix an apartment's problems, but the rent is $1000, and $900 of that covers costs and taxes, that only leaves $100 a month to cover the $10,000. It'll take 100 months, or 8 years. And that's assuming no new expenses pop up. You want landlords to go broke.
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@BasedBattleroid @bagelaureate Hate to think of what that makes Scalia
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@realmateo92 @escapefrommelos She's probing the petitioner's argument moron. By criticizing what she is saying in this clip you're AGREEING with her
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@escapefrommelos she doesn’t understand what allegiance means. she’s a supreme court justice. what a world. good luck to everyone.
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its so fucking insane this woman is a lawyer let alone on the supreme court
“so birthright citizenship…. imagine if you steal a wallet in japan… thats like a kind of temporary allegiance to japan”
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@space_stations @Anastasia_esq What exactly would you call the existing system of law?
A neutral set of principles conferred by divine intervention???
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@Anastasia_esq Leftists have an odd idea about "equal protection" when it's an active system to help some people at the expense of others.
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@JeremyTColes @CameronCorduroy Well, no, because you can't add exceptions whenever you feel like *and* Kavanaugh dissented on the constitutional issue
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@CameronCorduroy That’s silly, and I think he was more like 3 votes here. I think Gorsuch is arguing birthright citizenship doesn’t apply to temporary visitors but those living her unlawfully are quite different.
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@DEvansworth @thesoypill I'd say that's a weak argument given four members of the Supreme Court are willing to rewrite the constitution on a whim but you do you man
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@braindance2020 @thesoypill I would argue the judgment is what matters. He thinks it should have been decided narrowly on statutory grounds and disagrees constitutionally but ultimately his conclusion is the same.
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@thesoypill Kavanaugh agreed the EO was illegal, but because it ran afoul of Congressional statute, not the Constitution itself. That is a cowardly position to take, but one at least grounded in originalism (prior to the 14th Amendment). The other three? Preposterously partisan.
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@DEvansworth @thesoypill Dissenting in the part that matters. It's 5-4.
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@thesoypill 6-3 In judgement with Kav siding with the majority in finding but dissenting in part.
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@Mawilette @thesoypill Not really. It was 5-4 on the constitutional claim.
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@thesoypill It was 6-3 not 5-4
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The US Supreme Court voted to uphold birthright citizenship in a 6-3 decision Majority 🟥Amy Coney Barrett 🟥Brett Kavanaugh 🟥John Roberts 🟦Ketanji Brown Jackson 🟦Elena Kagan 🟦Sonia Sotomayor —— Dissent 🟥Samuel Alito 🟥Neil Gorsuch 🟥Clarence Thomas
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@Kandi8907 @xolotl9x @TheGlibReaper @dilanesper Cite the law that his candidacy violates! If you can't it's because it doesn't exist!
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this is actually a good case to discuss the role of "generating the right legal rule" in statutory and constitutional interpretation. And I say that NOT because I think it is easy. I think this one is legitimately hard.
Eric W.@EWess92
"Decoy" Dan Sullivan can appear on the ballot. In lightspeed litigation, the Court finds that while Alaska *could* pass laws allowing it to remove "sham candidates" from the ballot, it has not. And it finds a "good faith" requirement to run violates the U.S. Constitution.
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@tayrianaalover @shinobuissm @nevaRRaven164 Wouldn't you agree that the person claiming something happened generally bears the burden to prove it?
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@braindance2020 @shinobuissm @nevaRRaven164 yeah i never said that they definitely did, the original tweet mentioned that targs that came before dany never used it and that it was just dany only, which they wouldn’t know for a fact as f&b is a history book with no povs, thats what i was pointing out
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Dracarys is a command made by Daenerys and Daenerys alone no other Targaryen used that word but her HOTD just capitalized on her fame
SB 🪖@welovesweetboy_
how tf did aegon even manage to scream “dracarys” so loud that it reached balerion’s ear??
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@shinobuissm @nevaRRaven164 but f&b is a history book?? there are no povs in it. so you can’t say for sure that none of them would have used “dracarys” as a command back then
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Buttigeig should sue and push the case all the way to the Supreme Court.
Not only does he have the publicity, but the details have "test case" written all over them.
Josh Barro@jbarro
Some things about our child protection regime strike me as impossible to square with the Bill of Rights. How can the government possibly be able to tell someone he can't be alone with his kids based on anonymous double hearsay, even temporarily? petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/a-terrible-t…
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@PatientPadawan @marcorandazza Repeating my last point, you are mistaking a sufficient condition for a necessary condition.
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@braindance2020 @marcorandazza Can you not reason through why promoting family formation via marriage between individuals capable of producing children is a good and necessary thing for a government dependent on its tax base to exist?
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I don't disagree that Obergefell was the wrong reasoning... but I also don't see why it should be subject to a vote whether people get equality. Obergefell should have been 5 pages long, max. "Equal means equal, so the equal protection clause means that any two people can get married, regardless of their sex"
Josh Hammer@josh_hammer
Eleven years ago today, Justice Antonin Scalia dissented in Obergefell v. Hodges.
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@PatientPadawan @marcorandazza Didn't your parents give you the talk? No marriage creates children moron
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@braindance2020 @marcorandazza Not advocating for the removal of child tax credits.
The purpose of marriage receiving tax break is gov was expecting marriage to produce children.
Homosexual marriages do not create taxpayers and thus the gov has no reason to incentivize them.
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