And you’re an asshole.

Why isn’t this getting more stars?

What he wrote was absolutely wrong and there are / will be consequences, as there should be. That said, it seems extreme to me that he should be forever labeled an irredeemable racist asshole for something he wrote on twitter when he was 17. I’d rather he learn from his mistakes and find a way towards awareness and…

Fake.

Take you pragmatism star.

I have to agree - it wasn’t the intelligence community in general that fucked up Iraq II, it was GWB and his team.  Rank and file analysts and collectors warned repeatedly that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and possessed no WMD.

Do Cleveland’s police officer’s work under a collective bargaining agreement? If they do, you’ll know why its not possible to fire them the first time this type of info surfaces. They likely get a few bites at the apple before termination is appropriate under their union agreement.

RIP.  He was great on the Hawks 13’ Cup team, and being an African-American in the NHL is courageous no matter your skill level.

This deserves more stars 

The worst of this is actually in the sports world, where mainstream journalists have been doing it since forever in exchange for access and “friendship”.

You’re right - I shouldn’t have an opinion anymore. That’s the ticket to keeping Roe on the books.

The RunTMC years were awesome and would have been much more successful in the modern NBA.

I understand what you’re predicting will happen.  I sure hope it doesn’t;  guess we will have to wait and see.

You’re definitely asking to be an asshole. My gender and lifelong support for a woman’s right to choose is irrelevant to what I wrote, which is based on my knowledge of our legal system, the make up of the court, and Supreme Court precedents.

How was that cowardly?  You could argue it was negligent or selfish....but how was it cowardly?  

George Carlin

I never said, “there’s no way”. What I did say is that it would take a lot, because overturning a US Sup Ct decision that was a 7-2 ruling from 45 years ago and has since been interpreted and effectively upheld in a second case (Planned Parenthood) is very difficult to do.  

If that were the case it would have very likely occurred by now. Stare decisis is a strong legal principle that even conservative justices such as Roberts are known to respect (today’s public union case notwithstanding - that’s very much the exception and not the rule). What matters most is the legal reasoning on…

Of course losing Kennedy isn’t the same as Sotomayor, RBG, or Kagan. No one would argue otherwise. But Kennedy’s decision in Obergefell can’t be ignored, especially when you consider that he wrote several pro gray rights decisions before that (Romer, Windsor, Lawrence - RBG and Breyer joined each of those opinions).  

We could argue your point, but that wasn’t my point in bringing up that decision, and it doesn’t change the fact that he wrote the decision Obergefell and the cases that preceded it (Lawrence v Texas, et al.)