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Jesse Powell
@jespow
People who disagree with this week’s SCOTUS decisions, is it because you think they got the legal analysis or the facts wrong? Or, is it that you think their job should be something other than what it is and they failed to do that other job?
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orlando.btc
@Orlando_btc
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@jespow
Their legal analysis is incredibly inconsistent, giving the optics that decisions are made politically. They uphold and extend a case (Heller) that’s incredibly poorly reasoned—obvious 2nd AM is about states maintaining a nat’l guard—on the basis that the right for individuals…
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orlando.btc
@Orlando_btc
bear arms is based on history and tradition (debatable as lots of cases in states where this wasn’t the case), but then the next day strike down a right created in another not well reasoned case (wade) even though the right is also debatably based on history & tradition…
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The Bearog
@CryptoBullrog
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@jespow
A lawyer on the all-in pod said it best when he pointed out that you feel an injustice has occurred when your side is losing while you feel like justice happened when you’re winning. It went back to a state by state basis. People should live where they agree with the governance.
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Montana
@JmBridger
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@jespow
I think the facts are whatever the current SCOTUS interprets them to be. So apparently the previous SCOTUS that oversaw Roe v Wade was wrong. They didn’t understand the facts, constitution etc etc etc. But this group they got it right…. Until it get reinterpreted again.
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Dane Simoneau
@FullStackDane
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@jespow
NPC internet culture unfortunately. It’s incredibly hard to have productive dialogue over Twitter. People usually resort to insults. Mob mentality is strong.
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