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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by icelancer on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:37AM (#23788484)
This is what Justice Thomas has been doing for a long time now (to a fault), and Gorsuch has also taken up: Congress, do your job rather than make the judicial branch perform extralegal bench activism.
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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by rtpg on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:20AM (#23790748)
Sure in theory Thomas is doing that, but it feels a lot like cosplay when such a resolution would go against his general views on power in general (see this case).

People might have their legal doctrines, but it’s rarely as clearcut as you lay out and all the justices can only at most be “problematic faves”

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by icelancer on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:58PM (#23794321)
I agree on Thomas, hence the "to a fault" part in parens.
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Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ... by dragonwriter on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:03PM (#23794383)
“to a fault” means “to an extent verging on excess.”

You seem to be using it to mean “to a point limited sharply by his policy preferences”, which is pretty much the opposite.

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