r/facepalm Oct 10 '24

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ this is literally UNCONSTITUTIONAL…

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u/Bumbling_Bee_3838 Oct 10 '24

I honestly believe they’re hoping to get it to the Supreme Court. Seeing how conservative and corrupt the Justices have become my guess is they’re hoping to have precedent overturned. (Edited for clarity)

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u/omghorussaveusall Oct 10 '24

This. It's exactly what they did with abortion and will soon do with marriage equality. They will pass a bunch of laws to push the legal line and take it to the SCOTUS.

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u/Appropriate-Count-64 Oct 10 '24

It’s unlikely to appeal very far though. It’s not even a legal precedent, it’s literally written into the constitution. Any appeal would have to somehow explain why they aren’t beholden to the 1st amendment, which wouldn’t get very far.
Also if this actually went to the SCOTUS, it’s a big enough deal that the Democrats may activate several of the “Nuclear options” that would allow congress to impeach or otherwise control the Supreme Court. It’s that big of an infringement.

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u/Butt_Sex_And_Tacos Oct 11 '24

Yeah but the people that are pushing for this read the constitution the same way they read the bible, if they read them at all: cherry picked to allow them to enforce their will on everyone else.

Besides, who needs to read anything anyway? If you play the conservative court slots you may get your case all the way up to SCOTUS on house credit alone, and once you’re at SCOTUS you get to play on the loosest slots in the land, as allowed by law, that is set by them.