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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesnumberone View Post
    Are you denying that the Supreme Court has been turned into a political tool?
    What does that even mean? Political tool?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    Moral culpability and legal culpability? Not my province, exactly, though I have my opinions. But, again, if you think that, for example, the type of weapon used in the most recent massacre shouldn't have been legally in the hands of the shooter, it would seem to follow that you could be arsed to apportion a measure of blame for the folks who've actively and successfully campaigned for its availability.
    Er, yeah, that's dubious. I'm not comfortable saying that if Cruz didn't have access to an AR-15 this all would have been prevented. I believe that instituting a ban would be a step in the right direction, a step that should go in tandem with other measures of broad progressivism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    What does that even mean? Political tool?
    Have you not paid the slightest bit of attention to Supreme Court nomination proceedings, maneuvers in Congress, the voting on the cases dealing with political issues?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesnumberone View Post
    Have you not paid the slightest bit of attention to Supreme Court nomination proceedings, maneuvers in Congress, the voting on the cases dealing with political issues?
    Do you know who wrote the majority opinion on Citizens United?

    He also wrote the majority opinion on Obergefell.

    And was in the majority on Heller.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesnumberone View Post
    Have you not paid the slightest bit of attention to Supreme Court nomination proceedings, maneuvers in Congress, the voting on the cases dealing with political issues?
    Do you know who wrote the majority on NFIB v. Sebelius?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    Do you know who wrote the majority opinion on Citizens United?

    He also wrote the majority opinion on Obergefell.

    And was in the majority on Heller.
    So your points about one justice, Kennedy, is supposed to rebuke my point?

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    SCOTUS is fine. SCOTUS is not a political tool. SCOTUS is one of the last bastions of relative integrity in government.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    Do you know who wrote the majority on NFIB v. Sebelius?
    Yes, and he was heavily ridiculed by the far right for it and accused of betrayal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesnumberone View Post
    So your points about one justice, Kennedy, is supposed to rebuke my point?
    I don't think you really had a point, aside from the asserting that the nomination process has become more contentious, which is true, but speaks nothing to the quality of the justices or the decisions that they've made.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesnumberone View Post
    Yes, and he was heavily ridiculed by the far right for it and accused of betrayal.
    ^

    this would be a rebuke of your own insinuation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    I don't think you really had a point, aside from the asserting that the nomination process has become more contentious, which is true, but speaks nothing to the quality of the justices or the decisions that they've made.
    It isn't even just the nomination process. It's a damn campaign issue. Feel free to look at the 2016 election as just one example. I'm not saying they're unintelligent or unqualified, but you're living in fantasyland if you don't see the whole process as a political tool.

    Republicans: "We need to make sure we're appointing conservative justices."
    Democrats: "We need to flip the court."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    SCOTUS is fine. SCOTUS is not a political tool. SCOTUS is one of the last bastions of relative integrity in government.
    If their side was In charge and had five judges on the court he wouldn’t think SCOTUS was Politicized.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawk View Post
    ^

    this would be a rebuke of your own insinuation.
    His voting has been reliably on the conservative side of other issues. So no, it doesn't. That he was heavily ridiculed and called a traitor only speaks to my point that the whole thing is steeped in politics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesnumberone View Post
    It isn't even just the nomination process. It's a damn campaign issue. Feel free to look at the 2016 election as just one example. I'm not saying they're unintelligent or unqualified, but you're living in fantasyland if you don't see the whole process as a political tool.

    Republicans: "We need to make sure we're appointing conservative justices."
    Democrats: "We need to flip the court."
    My man, there is a pretty major difference in saying that the SCOTUS is a political tool and saying that the nomination process is a political ****show.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesnumberone View Post
    His voting has been reliably on the conservative side of other issues. So no, it doesn't. That he was heavily ridiculed and called a traitor only speaks to my point that the whole thing is steeped in politics.
    It demonstrates that Justices make decisions on the basis of law and not on politics. That they are not 'owned' by anyone.

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    Going down the rabbit hole. Didn't mean to hijack the thread here, but "owned" was your word.

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    Be carefull Hawk, that stradflef fence hurts when you lose your balance

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    Quote Originally Posted by Julio3000 View Post
    Yes, you've made yourself clear. I wait with bated breath for your suggestion of how ending gun-free zones will also mitigate mass shootings.
    My limited research has shown no instance of shootings at campuses that allow guns on premise.

    That's a start, anyways

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    Quote Originally Posted by bravesnumberone View Post
    Going down the rabbit hole. Didn't mean to hijack the thread here, but "owned" was your word.
    Yeah, that's why I used loose quotes.

    Here: "[the nra has] tremendous influence [over SCOTUS]"

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    Quote Originally Posted by sturg33 View Post
    My limited research has shown no instance of shootings at campuses that allow guns on premise.

    That's a start, anyways
    your data is bad

    because it's not on a scatter plot

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