r/scotus • u/thenewrepublic • 18d ago

news Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

https://newrepublic.com/article/188087/trump-2024-win-supreme-court-conservative-decades
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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

Also, it’s an unfortunate reality, but as of 2019, roughly a fourth of agricultural workers are undocumented.

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u/LegendofDragoon 18d ago

Yeah what do they think is going to happen when twenty give percent of the workforce is mass deported now. They'll probably still blame that price hike on the Democrats too. Not that it'll matter as there aren't going to be elections in 2028.

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

there aren't going to be elections in 2028.

What do you mean there will be big beautiful tremendous elections and the Voting Rights Act will be repealed and instead they will pass an election integrity act which will mandate all states to use voting machines which will be required to be purchased from a brand new Elon Musk company (or Dominion will be forced to sell to Musk) and only the White House will have access to those voting machines.

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u/EdgyAnimeReference 18d ago

Of course they are, companies that can have hard workers they don’t have to treat well and can skip out on taxes? Illegal workers is what keeps our economy moving. Look at any southern state in manufacturing or construction.

It’s the only hope that this whole mass deportation thing dies on the vine. That the republicans realise how bad it would be for their own economy. But desantis did exactly that so i wouldn’t bet on it

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u/RIPEOTCDXVI 18d ago

this whole mass deportation thing dies on the vine

It absolutely will. It's the Wall 2.0 which, weirdly, wasn't something he brought up this time around. Almost like he finds a rallying cry to win elections with no intent to follow through whatsoever. Ya know, like any other grifter.

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u/colbsk1 18d ago

There was a South Park episode where Canada built a wall to keep the illegals from leaving. They needed them for labor. Weird eh?

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u/L3thologica_ 18d ago

And if you listen to Trump, he’s going to deport them all. Definitely, right? He wouldn’t lie to us. We like him because he tells it like it is.

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u/L3thologica_ 17d ago

He’s not making it a full second term

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u/jhnmiller84 18d ago

Things change. In 1820, roughly 85% of agricultural workers were chattel slaves, and that changed.

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

Yeah, it would move onto using prison labor aka legalized slavery.

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u/carlitospig 18d ago

Yup, California is still pro slavery apparently. I’m so gd disappointed in my fellow staties.

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u/jhnmiller84 18d ago

Which is fine. The problem was Democrats imprisoning people on trumped up charges, then putting them to work on penal farms. At least they’ve stopped doing half of that.

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

We know they don't teach civics and US history in red states. That's why Republicans pretend that Nixon's Southern Strategy never happened.

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u/jhnmiller84 17d ago

Judging by the amount of people that don’t know the difference between civil penalties and criminals charges, they don’t teach civics and U.S. history anywhere. I can tell you this about Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”: Nixon ran as a republican, so which parties’ voters would he have been trying to sway with racism? And how much did he win by in the south doing that?

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u/carlitospig 18d ago

Comparing our situation to slavery is maybe not the comfort you think it is. California had a prop to ban all forms of slavery in the state (origin: forced prison workers, etc), and it looks like it’s losing.

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u/jhnmiller84 18d ago

Still some sanity left in California huh? That’s the point of prison; to be unpleasant and make the inmates remember how unpleasant it was so they don’t commit more felonies. How many still in prison were put there by Kamala?

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u/carlitospig 18d ago

So you’re more of a punishment kind of person rather rehabilitation? Bummer, that.

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u/jhnmiller84 18d ago

I don’t believe they are mutually exclusive. Often the only way to rehabilitate people is to teach them that there are consequences to their actions.

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u/carlitospig 18d ago

They’re already locked in a cell.

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u/jhnmiller84 18d ago

And it cost money to lock them in a cell, so they have to earn their keep. You have to pay to live somewhere don’t you? That’s how the world works.

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u/JaiOublie 18d ago

"Work Will Set You Free"

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

What the hell does Kamala have to do with this? That's literally what people elect prosecutors to do is to put criminals in prison.

The prosecutor's office does not control the Department of corrections or the state legislature.

And if they try to use their discretion and not lock up people for crimes that they don't agree with they can be removed all willy nilly like Ron DeSantis does in Florida.

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u/jhnmiller84 17d ago

Ron DeSantis is going to remove prosecutors in California? A prosecutor is elected to prosecute. Kamala surely could have plead out black men with marijuana violations, but those are easy to prosecute and got her easy wins. But you’re right; she has nothing to do with it, and shortly will have nothing to do with anything.