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Re:Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) by estearum on Monday January 19, 2026 @05:29PM (#46685393)
Please articulate a scenario that bisects them, then.

And no, your "solely due to" vs "contributing factor to" does not satisfy this. The quoted text (from Whren v United States) is extremely clear: race cannot be a consideration.

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Re:Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) by zahlman on Monday January 19, 2026 @05:38PM (#46685493)
No, the quoted text does not mean what you claim it does. The English words "based on" do not work that way.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Therefore I am done here, as well.

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Re:Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) by lovich on Monday January 19, 2026 @10:25PM (#46687584)
I followed your thread and can’t think of a situation where one case was satisfied and not the other.

Can you give us an example where the two statements are meaningfully different?

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