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Re:Elon’s Out by typon on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:46PM (#32039146)
It's wild to me that people think that Elon might actually face legal consequences for this.

The Delaware court isn't some magical place run by elves. It's a court in the US. You know what's a lot cheaper than $34 billion dollars, or heck even $1 billion dollars? $200k for 3-4 judges.

The Supreme Court just changed the law of the land based on a right-wing political campaign. You think a billionare, let alone the richest billionare is going to be subject to any serious consequences? It's absurd to even entertain this.

Re:Elon’s Out by ProjectArcturis on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:29PM (#32040683)
Twitter's got billions and fancy lawyers and lobbyists too.
Re:Elon’s Out by stale2002 on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:49PM (#32040803)
> It's wild to me that people think that Elon might actually face legal consequences for this.

This stuff goes both ways. Yes Elon has a lot of money. But twitter is worth XX billions of dollars.

Twitter is willing to spend a lot of those billions of dollars, in order to get Elon to pay the agreed upon price that he committed too.

This is not the case of a nobody vs a billionaire. This is instead multiple billion dollar entities fighting each other.

Re:Elon’s Out by parineum on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:07PM (#32039732)
> The Supreme Court just changed the law of the land based on a right-wing political campaign. You think a billionare, let alone the richest billionare is going to be subject to any serious consequences? It's absurd to even entertain this.

You know who has the authority to overturn that decision? Our democratically elected legislature.

Re:Elon’s Out by kibwen on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:35PM (#32040735)
Are you referring to the legislature where one house is deliberately unrepresentative of the people, and where the other house has been gerrymandered into unrepresentative oblivion, and whose bills are signed by an executive position who has preposterously lost the popular vote in two out of the last six election cycles?
Re:Elon’s Out by parineum on Sunday July 10, 2022 @03:30AM (#32042602)
Yeah, the one completely controlled by the party that says it's pro-choice.

> executive position who has preposterously lost the popular vote

What does the popular vote have to do with the presidency? Neither party strategizes to win the popular vote because the popular vote is meaningless. Therefore, the outcome if the popular vote has no value in determining who would win a popular vote should that be the metric by which the president is elected.

Re:Elon’s Out by zerocrates on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:22PM (#32040267)
I wouldn't be so sure a hypothetical federal law enshrining a Roe-ish right to abortion would itself survive the inevitable challenge to its own constitutionality.
Re:Elon’s Out by cmurf on Sunday July 10, 2022 @12:30AM (#32041886)
I expect this Court would find it a violation of he 10th amendment, leaving the issue to be decided only at the state level.
Re:Elon’s Out by parineum on Sunday July 10, 2022 @03:23AM (#32042575)
I very much doubt it but even if I thought that would happen, I'd like to make them actually do it.
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Re:Elon’s Out by exadrid on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:09PM (#32040571)
Yes, the supreme court decided that the rights of women were up for democratic election. That's fucking great when you have an anti-women's rights party.
Re:Elon’s Out by cycomanic on Saturday July 09, 2022 @08:53PM (#32040831)
At the same time they ruled that states could not regulate a "well regulated militia", so this has nothing to do with states rights.