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Ah, okay. I haven't been following the thread too closely, and I misunderstood your position then.

The fact of the matter is that accepting trans ideology, as you seem to, is unpopular with conservativism in the US. This has literally always been the case. This in my experience becomes markedly more, not less, pronounced within the grassroots and with religious conservatives. It's so...

Yes and yes. Fox turned a blind eye for a while.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/andrew-napolitano-out-fox-news-sexual-harassment-lawsuit Not sure if this has been posted here, since I haven't really been tracking this thread. IMO this links back to the thread that originally spawned this thread - the sexual harassments of young men...

Stare decisis isn't a hard an fast rule, it's a general principle. The idea (as I understand it, not a lawyer) is that for a variety of reasons the court should err strongly on the side of precedent. But I think few judges consider themselves to be totally bound by it. For example, courts of...

Eh, disagree that Plessy v. Ferguson was judicial activism. At least my understanding is that the court did not require segregation, it merely ruled that the 14th amendment allowed it, which would not require a new law. If there's textual evidence that the original public meaning at the time it...

You could overturn stare decisis for another reason than policy. I am not a lawyer, but at a guess an originalist might overturn a prior court ruling because he has determined that the prior ruling was not in comport with the original public meaning of the law.

Can't exactly ask someone "are you a partisan hack." Judges basically have the right to not policy questions when being questioned. (I think it's that they can refuse to answer any question if it is likely to come up in a case they are deciding). Faithfulness to original public meaning is a...

I mean the big reason we shouldn't try to do things through the courts is that it's a losing game. Most judges appointed by republicans have a philosophy of ruling to the minimal extent possible, to tailoring their rulings to that it overturns the least law possible, and deferring totally to the...

I was using it to mean "LGBT" generally, since that's what was relevant to my comment, not really which letter you happen to be.

He's gay. His opposition isn't at its core about whether it makes strategic sense or anything else, it's that he's gay and this is his #1 political issue, and even a hint that it might one day be in danger makes him freak out.

Don't derail another fucking thread into this garbage, we already have a LGBT debate thread, go bitch about the fact that not everyone is on board with it there, if you have to. Literally everyone on the "get rid of same sex marriage" side of it didn't think it was a battle to fight right now...

I am not sure that is a stable position. Look at Grenell, for instance.

I'd be pretty interested in this.

I think I more or less agree with some of this. I don't think this guy should be working with kids either. I think there are some additional factors here though, specifically that there's an aspect of deception here as well (even if the deception is almost always extremely easy to see through)...

Since people brought up Richard Grenell earlier I just thought I'd mention that he now has made a statement on the "T." He thinks it's very important this person is included and feels welcome in the Republican party, and will campaign against anyone who doesn't think so!

I mean, my point was that he'd be at odds with you, as you are a modern moderate, so it's a bit weird to appropriate him like this. Unless you think he agreed with you on this issue. And tbh, I'm a bit annoyed with you lot right now so I apologize if this comes off as unduly harsh, but people...

I've got a longer response to some of the things that have been said that I'm writing, but just to get this out there first The term "fundies" is as far as I'm concerned a 2a Civility Rules Violation. Cut that shit out. Edit: You think my side of this isn't watching our language in this thread...

TR, and really most non-socialist historical figures would be so far right compared to modern moderates that they'd be over the horizon. I don't hate moderates, nor do I think I've been nasty. I just think they're misguided, and it doesn't have any staying power. Yeah, I had a typo that...