• frogbellyratbone_ [e/em/eir, any]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    the meaning of the law changed? because you just changed your mind?

    :: astronaut in space meme :: always has been

    chemerinsky (radlib, but whatever) has a phenomenal book on how much of a joke and un-Democratical SCOTUS opinions regularly are: The Case Against the Supreme Court.

    it’s all political. you don’t get to elect them. they will literally just make shit up to get the political opinion they want. legal basis, prior law, even facts of the case.

    podcast 5-4 goes over every decision. you can just listen to 2-3 episodes to begin to understand how stupid it all is

    • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      It’s amazing the degree to which law has been sanctified as some mystical framework that exists outside of politics and exercises power against the state