“You shouldn’t have opinions.”

Sure you’re not a closet republican?

Making a law doesn’t make it unassailable, but it sets a higher standard. Could it still be overturned? Sure, but SCOTUS has always been hesitant to take on a case that would overturn a decades old law (which an opinion isn’t). 

And you are seeing black and white in a grey world.

Codifying something in congress makes it inherently harder to challenge. If you want to hold the Democratic party up and pretend they had no power be my guest, but I would say you are living in a dream world. At one point the party was able to outlaw assault rifles…

Nothing is shakier than an opinion, and while a lot of people seem to believe that a SCOTUS opinion is just as stable as law, it was always liable to change

Alito is right in that the grounds for saying Abortion was constitutional were thin at best, and anyone who pays attention can see that the court is straining the…

I blame Democrats. Multiple decades, and multiple majorities, went by without them codifying Abortion into law and making it near unassailable. Instead they chose to sit on a OPINION (which is always subject to change whether we like it or not) and use the threat of overturning it as a carrot for their base. It’s easy…

We could also accept that she got her support and now the man also needs support. 

You cant demand someone with money be altruistic. Most people are selfish, greedy creatures. How many people do you just pass by that you COULD help. Sure, you probably rationalize it away (no time, I got my own problems, bank account is light, etc etc), but you could help them. You could get them a cheap bottle of…

And yet, that is not enough for a pre-emptive attack. 

I would argue it doesn’t say good or bad things. This persons world view would be considered average at best. People, universally, trend towards the familiar. Its very easy to ignore suffering in Ethiopia or Yemen because they don’t “look” familiar culturally to Europe, but Ukraine does.

It may be bad, but it is also…

My wording was poor. They don’t participate in cases already heard but not ruled on.

Even worse on my part, I thought the SCOTUS had already heard arguments, but its in the Texas SC, not SCOTUS, so she very well may rule on it if she is confirmed.

I get this sentiment, but it likely doesn’t matter here. Judge Jackson, even if she was confirmed today, wouldn’t likely issue a ruling on that case. New SCOTUS judges tend to excuse themselves from newer cases while they find their footing. Trans-athletes are something she may need to rule on at some point in the…

The issue here is with the Prosecutor/DA. Don’t make a legal claim then do a taksies backsies. Understand that in that position, what you say hold more meaning that what John Doe in a comment section says

And if taking a break involves calling a guy hot? Is it that he is in a dire situation that makes him completely off limits? What is the time limit before we are allowed to call him hot again after this ends, and does that time limit change if he dies?

Is calling him a rock star bad? What about a hero? What if this…

This has a cold calculus to it. If you know the receiving country wont let someone of African descent into their lands, and that person is a male of fighting age, it is logical to deny them passage home during a time of what is essentially total war. The cold hard reality is that it probably benefits Ukraine to deny…

Most humans cant live in a constant depressive state thinking only about death and suffering. No one is making light of the actual war. A functioning, stable human being has to take a break from the horror, and focusing on how hot a verified hero is ranks among the most common and useful breaks from the real problem…

This sounds like another argument for expanding Brutalist structures (which I think would be an effective way to deal with housing costs in coastal cities).  So Gentrification is less “different people moving in the area” and more “there isn’t anywhere else to go”?

Maybe someone can help me with this. Every time I read about Gentrification, it seems like its just people moving to where they can afford to live or moving into a house they like. I don’t think buying or renting a house should require people to consider what business might do or how prices might go up if they move…

Alright, but the end question was if it would be okay under a different circumstance. Maybe murder was stretching too far, but there are other violent and non-violent felonies in which unknown DNA might be the only evidence. Maybe it rarely links to a crime, but as this article clears states it can. Is there a…

Devils advocate:

Someone you know (call them Person A) is murdered. Police collect DNA evidence, but otherwise have no real leads. They run the DNA, and it comes back positive linking to a rape test kit from the previous year. Do they convict? Or do they ignore it because its inappropriate?

You can shrug this off, but…

Right, but there are things to be righteously pissed about, and then there are things like NFT’s, which probably shouldn’t garner the same response as Roe v Wade being overturned. If everything invokes the highest possible reaction, then it stops being the highest reaction and becomes the norm. The majority of us…

Maybe not the run of the mill voter, but the people pushing this absolutely do understand. The equation is simple. Getting rid of affirmative action increases the likelihood that their son/daughter will get into a good school and get a good job. It doesn’t matter that the equation was already in their favor, nor does…