Pagliacci

He endorsed Elon for saving Twitter too, so maybe he's not the best judge of character?

The major question doctrine acts as a “get-out-of-text-free card” that conservative justices make “magically appear” whenever they see an executive branch policy that goes against their ideological “goals,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissent in the 2022 case of West Virginia v. EPA.

Apparently legislating from the bench is fine for Conservatives as long as you make up your own judicial doctrine as justification.

I don't know how we fix the problems we face. The court is seated by politicians, Congress is seated by grifters and ideologues,, and the people are too defeated/controlled to make meaningful changes.

Why is a one-on-one in person debate an appropriate venue for medical research?

At the end of the day this is just people who are good at talking wanting to talk and a person who makes money from people talking wantimg them to talk. Truth is not a motivating factor in their calls for debate, it's entirely based in self interest.

Nobody owes them to go play their game. If they're interested in this topic they're free to get involved in research and get studies published.

Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch would have dismissed the case because of the intervening North Carolina court action.

Was this the crux of their dissent, or did they disagree with the actual ruling in regards to the independent legislature theory? Having 3 justices endorse that theory would be alarming.

Happy this is settled for at least this iteration of the court. The idea that state legislatures can ignore their own state Constitution, that they themselves wrote, is absurd and paradoxical. Being bound by the state constitution isn't giving or sharing power with the state courts, it's a limitation placed on themselves by the state legislature.

I'm not sure what could be done. It's an executive order, not a bill, and it's scope is fairly limited. It doesn't create any new powers, just uses what's outlined in the HEROES Act to reduce the burden of student loans. Since it's an executive order the next President could revoke it, but the cancelled amounts can't be brought back so that would just wipe away the changes to how interest is handled.

This is just bizarre...what's the goal here? Putin already declared their acts as treason, how can he let this go unpunished? Is the Russian state really so weak that they have to forgive literal treason just to maintain power? What did Prigozhin gain from this? What about Kadyrov's movement towards Rostov, does he stand down as well? Was this all a weird performance?

Just...bizarre.

Some live updates:

https://meduza.io/en/live/2023/06/23/yevgeny-prigozhin-s-coup

It's pretty incredible how out of step Alito and Thomas seem to be even with the other conservative justices. Anytime there's a 7-2 or 8-1 ruling you can almost guarantee they'll be writing the dissent.

I'd take both boxes.

We've been given no information on the accuracy of the machine's predictions. Therefore, we have to assume it has just as good of a chance of being wrong as being right. There's essentially a 50/50 chance that box B has $1,000,000,000 regardless of my choice, so I would choose the option that at least guarantees the smaller prize while still giving me the same chance at the larger prize.

North Carolina got it's very own George Santos, and it's been vastly more impactful. There needs to be a fraud investigation carried out by someone here. You don't have this level of dishonesty without crossing the line into illegality somewhere.

Our immigration policy is such an embarrassment. Ignoring the obvious moral side of things, because that doesn't play with a lot of people, it's just necessary for the economy. We have a huge demand for these laborers and we simply don't have a domestic work force to meet that demand. We're crippling ourselves.

It also doesn't get you off when you don't pay your lawyers, for whatever reason.