"Supreme Court Justices Clarence M. Thomas and Samuel A. Alito last month attacked the high court's 2015 ruling upholding marriage equality, strongly implying it should be overturned."
"...the court announced on Oct. 5 that is will not hear a case by Kim Davis, the former R?owan County, Ky., clerk who refused to issue marriage licesnes to same-sex couples..."
"...In the process of disposing of this case, Thomas and Alito wrote to state their belief that Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 case that legalized marriage quality nationwide, is a threat to religious freedom."
Per "Church & State" Nov 2020 p.
The threat to religious freedom being the religious freedom to discriminate on the basis of rank bigotry and psychopathic hatred.
And then there is this:
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.So now the law gets to be "voted" on ever time the government changes hands and nobles the court with party faithful?
SCOTUS should be democratic, with term limits, and they should be constrained to ruling on points of law not making laws.
prometheus
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Nov 15, 2020
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How about being mentally healthy (not psychotic) and qualified with experience?
@racocn8 I'd back that. The "no test" thing in the constitution certainly didn't foresee psychotic candidates being propelled forward by the electorate. I'd love for someone to go through the writings and acts of all our elected representatives and come up with a swag (scientific wild-assed guess) of how many are psychopaths, sociopaths, or acting as if psychotic in some other way (e.g. self confessed QMoron). The analysis should be done blind, perhaps using a machine learning algorithm to asses the evidence, then we can look at the party break down.
As for qualified with experience - not so sure about that, except for where folks are on a committee or we are talking about appointments - the votes to appoint should not be solely partisan as they are now. The biggest problem we have now is Senators who do whatever their party leader who is often the President's bitch tells them to do. They are just another extension of the Executive branch and that is wrong - completely unconstitutional. They do this because they are worried about re-election because President and Party wield too much power.
And statistically it has been shown that the government doesn't represent We The People anyway. The legislation the pass has little or no correlation to the will of the people. So we are just being fooled even if we think we elected them democratically. The vast majority of people are for sensible gun control, are pro-choice (especially women), pro healthcare reform, and believe in anthropogenic climate change as a looming threat we should act on, etc. etc. But our government does nothing on these issues.
@prometheus I had a related idea a while back. Given the metadata database in Utah, I thought it would be a good idea to assess the data compiled on convicted criminals, especially the underserved white collar crooks. That data would then be compared to that of the general population. Where matches were generated, they would constitute probable cause for local or federal investigation.
They would not like my view on that. It's simple really. If the multi-married Kim Davis refuses to issue a marriage license on religious grounds she has the wrong job. Issuing a license is her job and not deciding if one should be issued. Oh, it offends her or her god. Once again, Kimmy, you are not a hero you just have the wrong job. Many of us get offended. So what?
DenoPenno
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Nov 14, 2020
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(The politico link doesn't work.) The idea that MY marriage (to whomever/whatever person I wish) is a ''threat to religious freedom'' is just infuriating! What they really mean is...it's a threat to their ''freedom'' to impose their religion on my private life!
Aren't they just the perfect example of Christian love and democratic principles?
LucyLoohoo
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Nov 14, 2020
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Try this?
@racocn8 Biden has to dilute the influence this asswipe has in SCOTUS
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