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Shelley Powers's avatar

You can practically read the bigoted sneer in his words. It's only matched by his breathless disdain for the law.

How can you stand to read through...filth like this? You have a strong stomach.

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Sioux Fleming's avatar

I’m asking this as a legal bystander, meaning I read about legal issues but am not a lawyer. Im seeking to understand how this case might correlate to others. I’m thinking of the finding of animus by Federal Judge Hinkle in Doe v. Ladapo in Florida this week, where he struck down a ban on gender affirming care as unconstitutional in part because of animus to transgender people on the part of the lawmakers who wrote the bill. (I realize I’m oversimplifying here.) Given that Judge O’Connor here dismisses the idea that transgender people exist, is this also an example of animus from a legal standpoint?

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

Hateful bigot. Texas doesn't want to abide by any federal laws anymore so they aren't going to. Republicans have always loathed the supremacy clause. This is their workaround.

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PNS's avatar
Jun 13Edited

Watch them reverse course if Trump wins though - "states have no right to obstruct the democratically-elected President's actions per the Supremacy Clause".

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

Absolutely! That's exactly what SCOTUS did. Abortion left to the states. Trump being on the ballot, which he absolutely should not be, can't be up to the states.

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Richard Careaga's avatar

Call him out on strikes for blowing off case or controversy grounds or intellectual dishonesty in not citing Genesis as controlling authority. Any judge who believes that there is a higher law should find a home in the Trappist order.

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Michelle Belmont's avatar

I will never understand why conservatives think their most important legal battle is fighting for the legal "right" to be discriminatory and hateful to any class of humans. What even is the platform? "We're protecting your right to be just as awful humans as we are?" Really? I'll bet their religious leaders put them up to this...

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Jim Lewis's avatar

I used to think that my position in the federal judiciary was a point of pride. Not so much anymore.

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Joe From the Bronx's avatar

Sigh. This guy is only 59?

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RJ's avatar

Is Reed O'Connor a character in Lewis Carroll's imagination or a future justice of the Supreme Court?

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Sean Corfield's avatar

I am reminded of a toddler, stamping his feet in defiance, when told that his bedtime might change at some point in the future...

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Leifur Heppni's avatar

The Supreme Court needs to settle these questions regarding trans care and single sex spaces, we live in a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS world, time to understand where we stand.

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