• Flying Squid
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    219 months ago

    Isn’t that the general gist of most of their decisions?

    • @[email protected]
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      419 months ago

      Pretty much. They keep circling back to “Well, he might have committed insurrection, but if we find him guilty, republican states said they will declare Biden committed insurrection and we will have to litigate that over and over.” So they are scared of literally enforcing the law because of threats.

      • Melkath
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        239 months ago

        “If we seek justice, then the other side will lie, and we are corrupt, so while we don’t want to uphold justice, we will try to uphold the lie.”

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        I was thinking about that today… we’ve reached a point in the US where “fear is speech,” but then I recognized I’m white, so it’s only new to me.

      • memfree
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        39 months ago

        republican states said they will declare Biden committed insurrection

        Great! All they have to do is point to the live coverage of Biden calling for his supporters to gather in Washington (“It’s going to be wild!”), telling them to “Fight like hell”, and directing them to march on the Capitol.

        Hey Court, don’t ya think pretty much anyone doing that stuff SHOULD be banned from holding office?

        If you are arguing that Republicans would claim lesser, stupid crap (“he vetoed a bill”, “he stood with union members”, “he asked for a recount”) is the same as insurrection, we want the lower courts to test such claims and make that a hard row to mow.