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Re:Supreme Court's Ruling Practically Wipes Out Free Speech ... by shadowfacts on Sunday July 13, 2025 @01:09AM (#44547702)
> The Constitution of the United States was a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-constituti...

The Supreme Court is not the ultimate decider of what the layman's document means. It was wrong when it decided, for instance, Plessy v. Ferguson. The law that the Court upheld patently violated the Fourteenth Amendment and was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court was simply wrong.

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Re:Supreme Court's Ruling Practically Wipes Out Free Speech ... by Hnrobert42 on Sunday July 13, 2025 @06:28AM (#44549162)
It can both be wrong and the ultimate decider.
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Re:Supreme Court's Ruling Practically Wipes Out Free Speech ... by soulofmischief on Sunday July 13, 2025 @10:47AM (#44550819)
That doesn't make something Constitutional or not, especially when they choose to ignore extremely plain and direct language.
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Re:Supreme Court's Ruling Practically Wipes Out Free Speech ... by Hnrobert42 on Sunday July 13, 2025 @06:01PM (#44554160)
By definition, the Supreme Court does decide what is Constitutional. It doesn't decide what is right or moral, but it does, according to the Constitution, decide what laws conform to the Constitution.
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Re:Supreme Court's Ruling Practically Wipes Out Free Speech ... by soulofmischief on Monday July 14, 2025 @12:43PM (#44562214)
That is their job, yes. But they don't always do their job, especially in a compromised government. Let's not pretend that Trump didn't stack the courts.
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