Discussion for article #228442
This is what should happen. People tend to depend on Washington. If more people were active in voting in all state elections, the right would be relegated to the old Confederate states.
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the only problem is that the law will eventually end up being challenged. it will eventually end up in the supreme court, which will, by a 5-4 majority, decide that it’s ok to discriminate an entire class, so long as it’s the “right” class being discriminated against.
one of the 5 has to go, before the court entirely shreds its credibility as a disinterested trier of facts and interpreter of the constitution.
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State governments and ideally progressive ones will have to take the reins and get things done, minimum wage, reproductive rights, etc., because it’s evident all the lardasses in D.C. want to do is retain the title in front of their names. It’s ironic to say the least that the party that got so much done under Lincoln including the first income tax, the Homestead Act and land grant universities now languishes in a permanent lethargy.
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Well there’s an interesting Supremacy Clause question I couldn’t begin to have an opinion on without doing actual legal research . . .
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Right. Without doing research myself, I would guess that Hobby Lobby’s “right” to discriminate on the basis of its (federal) constitutional right to freely exercise its religion would trump its employees’ rights under their state constitution. Of course, the whole idea of corporations having a religion is ridiculous.
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Would what this present SCOTUS did to Montana’s longstanding law on political contribution limits based on their previous Citizens United decision serve as a lamentable precedent?
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Certainly the ALEC-influenced, regressive state governments have been holding the reins and steering the “Wagon of State” down the wrong road for some years now.
Once upon a time, American progressive reformers were more aligned with the Republican Party than the Democrats. I think the federal response to the Great Depression realigned many progressives to the Democratic Party, although many liberal Republican politicians. The 1960s civil rights legislation and Democratic party fights to seat competing delegations from the South, which resulted in many southern Democrats to switch partys ended viable Republican liberalism for the nonce.
Hopefully the GOP patient can recover from a serious bout of TEA poisoning.
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Actually, it may never even get that far. The SC (through Scalia) has basically said they will never review a Citizens United-related case because “They’ve already decided this.”
Scum. Filth. Human slime.
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sigh A Hobby Lobby just opened up in my town.
Boycott.
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