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Re:My Body, My Data Act Tackles Online Privacy in Wake of Ro... by mminer237 on Monday June 27, 2022 @06:29PM (#31901727)
Congress is prohibited from passing ex post facto laws by clause 3 of Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution. The states are prohibited from passing ex post facto laws by clause 1 of Article I, Section 10.

Precedence has never been binding on the Supreme Court: https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overru...

If it was, we'd still be under Plessy v. Ferguson.

But unlike abortion, protection from ex post facto laws wasn't determined by a judge to be a right. It's written very plainly in the Constitution itself, and I'm very confident that won't change within my lifetime.

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Re:My Body, My Data Act Tackles Online Privacy in Wake of Ro... by rootusrootus on Monday June 27, 2022 @06:38PM (#31901831)
Texas recently showed us how to make a law that gets around the Constitution. I don't think I'd feel safe quoting phrases from the Constitution and assuming they actually protect anyone.
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