oh sure who knows tho. im somewhat more sanguine about this because its removing a constraint on states rather than imposing one, and because after Wickard everything is calvinball anyway
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hm i think characterizing everything as either "calvinball" or "not calvinball" is pretty black and white -- esp in relation to a bad 1942 ruling and esp in the context of our current political environment
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how would you characterize our political environment?
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i think its bad in the standard ways ppl think it's bad probably -- general increases partisanship/radicalism, moloch-y collapse of good politics. Also vague left-leaning concerns about voting rights i don't about much
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I see. was just trying to figure out what about the context seemed salient, this is a fairly high dimensional space :) I guess at this current point I could imagine a hypothetical court ruling in any direction on any issue likely to come before it, contingent on . . .
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. . . the political context outside the court. I would have said this before tonight, I don't think I've updated my priors much. I also don't really have strong views of abortion and while I don't mind when people do that territory seems really over-explored
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So I guess what's left is, is this approach to end runs around enforcement generalizable and effective, and what are the long term impacts of that if so this seems interesting and probably important but it seems very hard to predict. at least for me.
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yeah, that question is why im particularly concerned about this political context. The potential to enforce a wide swathe of laws regardless of constitutionality is a very big weapon in the context of a race-to-the-bottom situation balkanization acceleration and such
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i do not think this is a good right to leave to the states bc mostly bc it changes the political situation from "supreme court may play calvinball every so often based on political context" to "every state constantly plays calvinball" and the constitution is Good Actually
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the 95th percentile situation where the ability to end-run constitutionality cross-interacts with voting rights seems extremely bad in particular
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I think the procedural issue is far more alarming than the abortion question (one way or another) since abortion's constitutionality will rise or fall in the ordinary course of litigation regardless. In particular...
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... right now there are a set of rules for the circumstanced under which you can get pre-enforcement relief against unconstitutional laws. Those rules are a bit arcane but they are where you are pretty likely to end up when you do the Socratic process of asking...
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