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Re:Jones Act Contributions to Offshore Wind Difficulties by hehhehaha on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:02AM (#39205385)
It genuinely feels like we only ever add laws. There are still states that outlaw sodomy
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Re:Jones Act Contributions to Offshore Wind Difficulties by jimbob45 on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @12:13PM (#39206385)
There are still states that outlaw sodomy

This is misleading. None of them are legally enforceable. They simply haven’t been struck from the books because it would be entirely performative.

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Re:Jones Act Contributions to Offshore Wind Difficulties by 8note on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @02:07PM (#39207953)
With roe v wade gone, aren't they legally enforceable? The state government owns your body
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Re:Jones Act Contributions to Offshore Wind Difficulties by Tyrannosaur on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @05:01PM (#39210014)
While Justice Clarence Thomas suggested a rethinking of Lawrence v Texas in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, it hasn't yet been overturned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas

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Re:Jones Act Contributions to Offshore Wind Difficulties by jauntywundrkind on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:17AM (#39205556)
Decades past I was 100% with you. Government seemed to just accrue and accumulate to me, qawas rarely revised. I hungered for a government that can iterate & experiment., can reassess.

Today it feels like there are way more people opposed to governance & laws than at any point in the living past. That terrifies me. Making laws feels harder; Hastert Rule was just the start of non-cooperstion it felt like, & there is now broad unwillingness to legislate reasonably.

And then we get to the court system, where 5th District Court of Appeals & others seem to take rampant delight in pushing over years of precedent to de-govern and disempower the government. All it takes is one judge to unmake decades of law.

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Re:Jones Act Contributions to Offshore Wind Difficulties by MichaelZuo on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:29AM (#39205729)
Even if 3/4 of the US Code of Federal Regulations become 'disempowered' there's still no way anyone would ever read through, or even understand, half of the remaining pages in force.

I think it's safe to say that would apply to 100% of the HN readerbase.

So it would effectively still be unlimited for any specific individual.

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