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Texas Republicans Ban Women From Using Highways for Abortion Appointments
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Nothing is "settled" with the current Supreme Court.
Commerce Clause is about as settled as it can get, though. Especially with a Court so enamoured with Founders Intent. Gibbons v Ogden is probably only behind Marbury v Madison in sacred status to this Court.
It's cute that you still have faith in conservatives doing anything consistently
Overturning Gibbons would do more harm to the conservative cause than good.
The entire West Coast is liberal-controlled states. They could legally tax or simply cut off any goods or services bound for conservative states originating from or passing through their states.
All to defend a law that's essentially unenforceable from a practical standpoint.
Again, you're assuming conservatives have any sort of consistency or logic. They'll just make up some BS that keeps things moving the way they want.
Even they have limits they won't pass because it would blow everything up.
I remember when I was this naive
I remember when people had nice conversations on the internet that didn't involve unnecessary one-line insults.
Maybe instead of being insulted by being aware of your incorrect beliefs you could educate yourself? Just a thought.
LOL as if there is something objectively true here. You cannot use the word "incorrect" in this conversation, but you know that and spread misinformation anyway. Everything we're talking about is fully subjective, conjecture, and whataboutism. Time to get off your "look at me I'm so cool" soapbox.
Whatever is going on here is a "you" thing and I am disengaging. You seem to think you have a pointy but you don't.
"Sorry, but after the gutting of Roe, stare decisis only applies to things conservatives and/or billionaire overlords approve of" -- SCOTUS
Conservatives and billionaires absolutely approve of the Commerce Clause.
Overturning Gibbons would allow California to tax all internet traffic coming through LA from the rest of the world, or allow liberal states to seize high-capacity magazines being shipped across state lines.
Imagine Facebook having to pay import/export taxes every time someone accessed their account.
It would be the most impactful SCOTUS decision of all time, and would be absolutely ruinous to the business interests of the wealthy.
Stare decisis has only ever applied to things the justices approve of. It's just that this may be the most fucked up group we've ever had. If all the former judges were also lovers of stare decisis, most of our civil rights would not be here, because many of those have been when previous judgements were overturned. Just think about the segregation of schools. Was Brown v The Board of Education not a reversal of Plessy v Ferguson?
The concept has always been about a bullshit homage that lawyers and judges dance around.