The Supreme Court will consider staying an order that limits ICE agents from stopping people based on "apparent ethnicity."
        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          3 months ago

          Spy magazine ran a great cartoon back in the early '90s which I can’t find anywhere online. It was captioned “Clarence Thomas greets the day” and it showed him bending down on his front porch to pick up the newspaper with a negro stable boy lawn statue next to him.

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          262·
          3 months ago

          Reality really is stranger than fiction sometimes.

          Society tends to repeat on approximately 80-100 year cycles. Just long enough for the generations affected by bullshit to lose their voices and die.

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
            122·
            3 months ago

            Society tends to repeat on approximately 80-100 year cycles.

            American society. And it’s been closely shown to hold since when America attacked Canada, of all places.

            Other countries have their own cycles. Consider the 11-year Canada goose purge cycle that affects your friends to the north. It’s not spoken of but, like seal clubbing, a periodic culling is required to prevent them invading and burning the Library of Parliament and goosey sanchez-ing the last copy of the Declaration upon Dependence. It’s a little backward up there.

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      23·
      3 months ago

      Wait. There are still people who doubt this timeline’s consistently proven penchant for exponential fuckery? Are they one of those no-contact tribes? (Although, I’ve always wondered if those tribes were as much isolationist as “nah, fuck all of your world -we’re good.”)

  • Clam_Cathedral@lemmy.ml
    17·
    3 months ago

    We just have to convince the conservatives that this would be a DEI program and it’ll be a slam dunk case. /s

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
    66·
    3 months ago

    Wasn’t this already decided when they ruled that stop-and-frisk laws were unconstitutional due to racial profiling?

      • Smeagol666@crazypeople.online
        8·
        3 months ago

        It’s called a “gratuity” now instead of a bribe. I guess the SCOTUS was feeling left out watching the other two branches make money hand over fist and decided to legalize it.

        Edit: apparently the difference is getting paid after, instead of before, whatever “service” is provided.

      • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
        41·
        3 months ago

        Blindly following precedent without reason, maybe…but applying the law without any form of consistency isn’t helpful either. Rulings need to be fair, across the board. They can’t wildly swing from one precedent to another, depending on the individual whims of whichever judge is currently deciding a case.

        That’s exactly what’s happening now, with the current Supreme Court…and look at how that’s going.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
          10·
          3 months ago

          They can’t wildly swing from one precedent to another, depending on the individual whims of whichever judge is currently deciding a case.

          They can and they are.

          • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
            2·
            3 months ago

            That’s why I responded the way I did to the guy that said, “Stare Decisis is for suckers”.

            The current Supreme Court is not adhering to precedent. Without that adherence, no decision is final. Every established law can simply be reinterpreted again and again, without any consistency.

        • JaymesRS@piefed.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          I wasn’t suggesting it, that phrase is an older conservative trope from legal blog from 20 years ago that is clearly motivating the current Supreme Court. (The current strict scrutiny podcast references it too in a clearly sarcastic tone as well)