Republicans are now asking the Supreme Court to block court drawn maps in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) February 28, 2022
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Yes and yes. I love the idea of the “originalists” that the world today is exactly the same as it was in 1789. Also, too, the mere existence of the amendment process tells me that the Founders were well aware that the Constitution could be changed, if necessary. The difficulty of the process and the fact that it has only created 27 Amendments since ratification also implies that it was meant to be infrequent.
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The Constitution is fairly specific about what the government cannot do, and pretty general about what it can do.
That shows that the framers knew it needed to be flexible enough to respond to changing circumstances and different times.
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The news here for me, in WVa, is that the state even had a Solicitor General
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The word is exactly the same as it was in 1789. The question is whether they intended to leave it open. And in many obvious cases, they did.
If Madison et al. wanted to prohibit waterboarding and punitive amputation, they could have done that. Instead, they prohibited Cruel & Unusual Punishment. That’s a deliberate decision to stand on principle and leave the details to the future.
ETA: Solitary confinement, for instance?
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It’s certainly possible that intelligence and societies develop up until when they invent “capitalism.” Then, it ultimately kills them and likely most life on their planet.
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I take it is that the assumption is environmental protections and climate protections will be struck down?
It’s been a bad morning on the farm. More later.
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“Legal experts were stunned that the Court took up this case in the first place…”
Welcome to post But-Her-Emails! America.
Get ready for a lot more “stunned”.
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I guess they believe the rest of us will be clamoring to live inside their protected compounds so we’ll effectively be serfs.
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Of course not! Take some personal responsibility would ya?
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“Supreme Court Hears Effort To Cripple EPA On Climate Change”
We all know how this is going to end. They should not even be listening to it, but the fact they do is because they already know what result that they want to impose.
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Along with all authorization for Congress to delegate any of its powers. Congress will need to vote on what sort of respirators will be required for each type of contamination, exactly what “low flow” means for bathroom fixtures, and the number of rat hairs and insect leg segments that are permissible in a box of cereal.
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There is no doubt in my mind that they will.
Thought SCOTUS was generally staying out of this issue…???
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Of course the endgame is to cripple executive agencies with the originalist ideal that the legislature legislates, ignoring the reality that everyone knows, which is that in practice congress has farmed the writing of all legislation out to donors and lobbyists. The libertarian utopia, bought and paid for by the Koch bros.
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I guess the sooner we accept this reality, the les damage we will do to our stomach lining.
Is there any reason EPA couldn’t force a system for single family homes similar to what it is claiming it can do with existing power plants?” Alito asked.
But they are not!
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“Capitalism” is predicated on unlimited growth…just like the disease of cancer.
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Alito - “Is there any reason EPA couldn’t force a system for single family homes similar to what it is claiming it can do with existing power plants?”
Alito is an idiot.
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