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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 55 points 10 months ago

I mean, possibly not quite if we go back far enough in history, Dred Scott was a thing after all.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 73 points 10 months ago

The Lochner Era might have been worse than the pre-civil war era.

To know that the Lochner Era was like, just imagine this court in 10-years.

The Supreme Court during the Lochner era has been described as "play[ing] a judicially activist but politically conservative role".[5] The Court sometimes invalidated state and federal legislation that inhibited business or otherwise limited the free market, including minimum wage laws, federal (but not state) child labor laws, regulations of banking, insurance and transportation industries.[5] The Lochner era ended when the Court's tendency to invalidate labor and market regulations came into direct conflict with Congress's regulatory efforts in the New Deal.

The Lochner court struck down laws that would have lessened the impact of the 1929 stock market crash, and also struck down efforts to shorten the depression.

FDR flat out said that if they didn't knock it off, he would appoint as many justices as needed to undo the damage.

This current bill is maybe not the way to do it. Just add a few more seats (13 Total, to match the number of appeals circuits), and then maybe name the Federalist Society a hate group and ineligible for federal service in any capacity.

[-] orrk@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

name the Federalist Society a hate group

to be fair, if we pretend they hate white people it would be signed faster than the ink could dry

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

I know Thomas predates the Federalist Society, but isn’t hating white people his justification for taking all that money and vacations from them?

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