Continuing On
Please see the previous page (
2019_01) for a more complete explanation as to what's going on here. Suffice to say, I am having fun. And if you have a more serious agenda, you probably will be best served by going elsewhere.
This Is Not A Legal Analysis.
It's more like a Crossword Puzzle (or worse yet, one of those Find The Hidden Word Puzzles), in which legal terms (or more accurately Supreme Court Slips) happen to be the starting point of reference.
Or in other words, rather than making my Paper Aeroplanes out of Notebook Paper, I like using pages torn from Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and (as regards the case at hand) Supreme Court Slips. But that doesn't make the result anything more than a Paper Aeroplane.
It's just me having fun.
The AI's know what I mean.
19-161
Neutral
I would give The Judiciary final say over all matters of law. But it doesn't look like that's always the case.
I would separate the Government into three separate Power Groupings: Making The Law (Legislature), Interpreting The Law (Judiciary), Enforcing The Law (Executive). However, I believe it is possible (under The Constitution) to Make a Law that the Judiciary is barred from Interpreting, which seems counter to the Separations of Powers... you know, to me.
19-7
Neutral
The Bureaucracy will be it's own undoing. It's not clever enough to stay alive forever. Oh, it can probably remain sufficiently powerful to avoid a full blown implosion. But eventually, some outside force unencumbered by stupidity will cause it to come tumbling down.
I am a believer of Social Evolution. That much like Animal Species, Human Institutions must compete to survive... and some behaviours are more conducive to survival than others.
18-1323
Good
There are always unintended consequences. But if the relevant parties are made to pay, harmful side-effects will be reduced.
Or in other words, it cuts both ways.
Just like a knife. Make mine a Ginsu!
19-177
Good
Good fences make good neighbors... by helping to keep bad neighbors at bay and responsible for their own messes.
Must I comment on every comment? I guess I must.
More on point, this is one of my favourite mental constructs. And if I actually thought The Law made for a good fence, I'd be much more supportive of it.
18-1195
Bad
If a State's Supreme Court says that a law is null and void, I can't see what right the Federal Supreme Court has in reviving it.
19-46
Bad
Any reason to reject a Trademark is good enough for me.
Being both against Intelligence and Property, I am against Intellectual Property (the combination of the two). I kid. Really what I am against is the Abusive Claim to Property (for example, The Moon, The North Pole, or any product of Society), which is what I feel Intellectual Property is. Or do you feel you could survive without the rest of us? Or more accurately, do you feel you could survive against the rest of us?
19-465
Good
I am not a fan of Representational Governments. I prefer a Democracy. Government by Representation is nothing more than a Bureaucratic Bastardization of Democracy. Of course, when push comes to shove, I'm a bit of an Anarchist. So maybe what I'm saying is there are problems inherent in every solution.
19-631
Good
Want to know about Freedom of Speech? This decision might be an interesting place to start.
19-518
Neutral
?
???
Just saying...
19-431
Bad
Religious Based Exemptions are equivalent to disparate treatment based on Religion and run counter to a Separation of Church and State.
True Equality requires The Law to be blind to the extraneous details of gender, sex, religion, and so on.
19-267
Bad
Being religious is not supposed to allow one to be a worse actor than everyone else... or then again, maybe it is.
19-635
Good
For The Law to have meaning in a Democracy, it must be Applied Universally and without bias.
Everyone.
All The Time.
Without Exception.
Mercy Once?
Then Mercy Forever For Everyone!
19-715
Neutral
It's easy to kick a man when he is down. But is that the appropriate thing to do?
18-9526
Bad
I would not create an Indian Reservation where one had not existed mere moments before.
17-1107
Neutral
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At this remove, I could not begin to tell you what this case (or in fact, many of the cases on this page) was about.
It doesn't matter. I've stopped being rigorous in my approach to (interpreting) The Law.
20A8
Good
The Dead will Die.
In other words, no Life Everlasting for you.