wings wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 7:13 am
Oh, stop with the Supreme Court filibuster blame game. The Republicans were going to kill it regardless of what Reid did.
Of course they were. Look how Mitch TOTALLY moved the goal posts to get Barrett confirmed in the September before the 2020 election, reversing himself COMPLETELY after blocking Garland for over 10 months, making up a total bullshit excuse. Reid's action was no more than a tiny fig leaf for what Mc ALWAYS intended to do!
Congressional obstruction is their exclusive prerogative, not ours. Look at the blanket holds and blue slip games still going on today.
The Constitution was written a couple centuries before modern neurobiology came along. If we started again from scratch today, objective Framers might have to wrangle with the problem that some kinds of impulse control - violence for one - that we associate with maturity don't fully develop in many cases until the twenties, while still wanting to secure the franchise and other rights at adulthood. Thornier thicket than "are women, Blacks, and indigenous North Americans people?"
Amendment IX, US Constitution wrote:The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X, US Constitution wrote:The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people
Herein lies the rub - Alito and his ilk hold that X supersedes IX, that state powers supercede individual rights. It's challenging to write co-equal but non-contradictory amendments. Ask the Second about that problem.
Amendment IX was virtually REPEALED by 6 Justices in Dobbs when, directly contradicting IX, Alito wrote that since abortion isn't an EXPLICIT right enumerated in the Constitution, it wasn't a right. Their effective repeal of IX totally violates Article V of the Constitution's body.
Amendment X has NEVER been fully honored.
Where were "States' Rights" of the Free States when the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted and upheld in Dred Scott? Nowhere!
Where are the "States' Rights" of Blue states when they may be FORCED to honor Missouri's crazy "Any nut can buy, carry and conceal a gun anytime, anywhere, without ANY limits or background checks" law?
Where are Blue States' Rights when DeSatan is using Floriduh tax-payers' money to ship immigrants from Texas (ie, NOT Floriduh) to New York, Chicago, Boston, and Nantucket?
And when have the last 4 words of A10 EVER been honored or recognized in law "or to the People." ????????
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."