Republican Wants to Bring Back America's Favorite Past: Slavery!

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Republican Will Reluctantly Vote to Bring Back Slavery If that is What the Public Wants.

Nev. Assemblyman Jim Wheeler responds to firestorm over slavery commentA Nevada assemblyman has faced tough scrutiny after he said in a YouTube video posted this week that he would vote in favor of slavery if it was in line with his constituents’ wishes

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The Supreme Court didn't overrule Prop 8. They didn't rule on any substantive issue in the case, only that petitioners didn't have standing to defend the measure in court. All they did was say "nope can't rule on this, and neither could the Ninth Circuit, natch, so whatever the federal trial court judge said stands!" which happened to have the effect of overruling Prop 8. I don't recall Judge Walker's reasoning but whatever it was SCOTUS didn't adopt it in the least... I mean, wish it had, but Hollingsworth ended in a draw. SCOTUS also doesn't generally rule on things that voters can or cannot vote for so much as things the government can or cannot regulate or enforce.

Voters do teeechnically have the right to vote for something that denies rights to certain groups of people (see: the California prop system, where anyone w/ the money and wherewithal can petition to add a proposed constitutional amendment or statute to the ballot; if it passes, it's law, just like that). It's just that voters who disagree also generally have the right to take that shit to court if it passes and they have a cause of action for it, i.e. it violates some basic fundamental right protected by the Constitution. Which is precisely what happened in the Prop 8 case.

The source of this guy's legal-stupid, among many, many other things. is that the Constitution outlaws slavery, and you can't fuck with the Constitution without majorly broad support, especially if you're a state assemblyman wtf???? and also he's just a dumbass.

[moonshaz]

Agreed with all of this, especially the dumbass part.