#SCOTUS #ruling today reinforced one of my own rules-of-thumb, derived after observing my fellow humans for decades:
ENR. It stands for "Excuses Not Reasons"
means that people will ultimately do whatever they truly *want* to do, deep down. and that any "reason" they give is just BS. either to help mentally justify it to themselves, or to the listener. to give it cover. in reality their reason is merely an excuse
excuse, not a reason
ENR
@TCatInReality Eugene Debs - that's the precedent, I'm afraid.
@linuxgnome
"Precedent"? That's so last century
#SCOTUS majority hasn't given two sh!ts about precedent in years. Roe, Heller, NY's 100-year-old gun laws, numerous VRA cases and soon Chevron - all had long held precedent.
Nope, the "liberals" should have dissented, allowing states to self-execute under some proposed judicial tests. Leave the window for Congress to revise with "enabling leg".
Instead, we completely lose *another* Constitutional protection. 😖
@TCatInReality there are a lot of problems with the proposal to just make a test.
Practically, that's a pretty important test to be created out of whole cloth, without development in courts below, without solid briefing or study.
US courts recognize the importance of that development.
But more importantly, the Court found that this was a state interfering in a federal activity without authority. Considering the history of the amendment, that's a particularly ironic bit.
The Court would be devising a problematic test for a process that's not allowed as it would allow states to undermine the federal government.
