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@raphjd said in SCOTUS makes extremely rare 9-0 decision (education case):

Overall they make a lot of them, but this is due mainly to technical issues (ie is a specific type of defense allowed) that have to do with a trial, which they send back down to the trial courts.
When they make a final decision (ie Roe v Wade), they make very few of them.

This is how you tell me you're not a lawyer without telling me you're not a lawyer.

The SCOTUS is an appellate court (since it rarely uses it original jurisdiction powers); therefore, it doesn't generally render "final decisions" in the way I suspect you're thinking.

For example, the SCOTUS didn't render the final judgment and orders in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. After the SCOTUS made its determination that the lower court's ruling was incorrectly decided, it remanded (i.e., transferred) the case back to the Fifth Circuit for that court to further review the case and render the final judgment.

Again, 9-0 decisions are not extremely rare. They aren't extremely rare because most of the cases heard by the SCOTUS are mundane, boring cases where the Court is merely resolving conflicting judgments between and amongst the lower district courts on mundane, boring elements of the law.

oooh that's racist! (/kidding - /sarcasm)

"The hypocrisy part is what pisses me off because we know that right whales, other whales, get struck by freight vessels all the time...You see very little effort by the federal government...And yet they see a small business lobster fishery up in Maine that's not politically important to them and they try to crush it just to try to prove to the environmental groups that they're actively trying to protect the right whales," he continued.

Good point.

Now if only he could get pissed off about

the 30,000,000 times this has been done to other small businesses

Biden taking million$ in bribes from China (via Hunter's "business dealings" politely termed)

Biden sending hundreds of billion$ to Ukraine, much of it bribes & money laundering (FTX anyone?)

Biden trying to start nuclear WW3

The covid fraud - how it was over-hyped, with mass-destruction results, more people dead from the lockdowns, losses, suicides & today the "excess deaths" scandal that are probably vaxx-releated deaths, than died from covid disease

USA elections being rigged, USA jailing dissidents, USA now in the grey zone between Banana Republic and Soviet Union

Fat-cat bank bailouts

@shanoprah "But it's on Faaaawwwwkkkks" - The laziest, dumbest possible response. "Breakfast of Idiots" as they say.

Where a bit comes from, is irrelevant to whether it's true.

OK it may be relevant to how hard YOU want to check it, before agreeing it's true. Fine.

But absolutely, 100% irrelevant to whether it is true.

Even Hitler often reported the correct time & weather.

Remember all those times when leaks showed Hillary's corruption & then Biden's corruption too, and it was all 100% true, and lib media distracted people with stories of Russshhhia being the source except that part was all 100% false, fake & made-up? I do.

@lololulu19 What's the word when a thing doesn't surprise, yet it's still amazing? I mean, wow. Yet it's about what I would expect.

@raphjd "you wouldn't see a Dem post this if it was the DNC involved" - yes, also it if was the Lincoln Project involved or any of the GOP-establishment pets involved.

@SalbakutaMas

Virtually all feminists are special rights, feminists.

Unbelievable!

I also read that the NY DA that is going after Trump with Trump's former attorney Cohen has not got a chance of winning. Legal experts say the charges are baseless.

@MrMazda

Well, there was one of the groups that did Drag Queen Story Time that was run by a former judge who was a convicted pedo. There was also the drag queen who wore a skimpy skirt, with his legs apart. Of course, that public library event, in the UK, where they hired a "circus troop" for an event to promote kids reading and they were adults only. The monkey had his ass exposed and a huge dildo out front.

But I do agree that it's almost always teachers doing this crap.

@raphjd It doesn't even pass a laugh test. Lower bills would mean more CO2 (more energy burned).

Plus the fact that real people's bills are double or more, from Biden.

Plus the fact that, like Covidism (the overreaction to covid virus), Climatism is a crazed hoax.

@raphjd Non-binary Muslim?

Whether it's a taqqiya thing for the Westerners, or a kind of crazy performance art... either way, I don't think Muslims hold with non-binary.

What's the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth?

About 6 months usually....

I wonder what the implications would be for someone asking a minor for pictures of themselves. Just plain pictures. The reason I wonder is because I have an adopted sister whom my dad's 2nd wife literally pimped out for dancing, modelling, commercials, cheerleading, etc. i guarantee that many of the people involved with these activities are pedophiles. Here is one example: a local library had a children's book club. Strangely, the children had to be aged 8 to 12, parents were not allowed to participate / supervise, they would spend the night sleeping in the library, and the program was run by an obese single man in his late 20's.
I recall that in middle school, the coach of the baseball team was always patting the players on the ass. (I was not on the baseball team and nobody touched my ass). He did not get in trouble, but a local priest got nailed for patting kids on the ass who were fully clothed.
I don't understand why someone would be attracted to a child sexually - since they are devoid of sexual attributes. I can't recall ever seeing someone under the age of 16 who was sexually attractive. Still 2 years below the legal limit, but mother nature matures some people earlier than others. There is no excuse for those looking at pre-teens for their sexual gratification.

@lololulu19 And why is the Antifa (or maybe BLM?) guy the one saying "Burn it down" as citizens stroll through their own Capitol?

Youtube Video

@raphjd My aunt's best friend used to babysit her two sons. When the older one turned 13, the friend started having sex with him! My aunt did not press charges because she did not want to deal with the scandal.