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daria (MID)'s avatar

"I’m overjoyed, deeply moved…. There’s so much about what’s happening in the world now that is presenting some of the worst of this moment and human behaviors. And then we have a moment like this.” – Kamala Harris

Perfectly stated.

Thank you, Heather, for documenting this most historic day.

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TCinLA's avatar

I'm glad you brought up that Gideon v Wainwright is on the potential Originalist Chopping Block. Add in Mapes v Ohio (reasonable expectation of privacy and requirement of a search warrant) Miranda v Arizona ("You have the right to remain silent...") EVERY civil right that is the result of the court extending the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause to bring federal civil rights to the states, is on the chopping block. Do not think that Brown v Board of Education is not also on that list.

Then get into the entire regulatory state through the court's use of the commerce clause. These people will not be happy until they take economic life back to the days of Lochner v NY.

These people are the furthest thing from "small government" conservatives. They're all in favor of using as much government as necessary to enforce their world view and re-establish white supremacy as the law of the land. Some of them are in favor of re-establishing property requirements to vote.

And right now the people whom H.L. Mencken described as being so massively stupid that "no one ever went broke underestimating" their intelligence, are divided 43-43 on the "generic congressional ballot."

Remember what I tell myself every time I walk out my front door "fifty percent of the people you're about to deal with are 'below average'" and then remember they can vote.

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