News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
This is hardly a new law, so the question follows why this is timely / why now.
I’m hardly the expert here, but I wonder if there is even standing for TX to challenge a thirty year old federal law that’s effectively long settled law.
More PR bullshit.
I dunno, the SCOTUS has been overturning decades old rulings out of nowhere lately.
How new SCOTUS can reverse old SCOTUS seems like an odd power for them to have.
Unfortunately, it's a very necessary power, because our legal system is absurd. As a child, I asked to see the book that has all the laws I have to follow - it doesn't exist, because we learn the laws through rumor. We don't even know how many laws there are, we just kinda forget ones we stop enforcing and pass new ones
The supreme Court of a century ago was pretty different - both common sense and the law change over time. For example, Citizens United was a shit ruling, debatably an actual existential threat to humanity, or where we became the worst timeline. That should not be written in stone forever - a system like that is begging to collapse
Or for a more historical example, sodomy laws or martial rape come to mind
Now I may be wrong, but the rulings on sodomy or marital rape weren't rulings that overturned past supreme Court rulings. And a future supreme Court shouldn't be able to overturn citizens united. Congress would need to pass a law to overturn citizens united.
It's like roe v wade. I'm pretty sure the roe ruling wasn't specifically about abortion, it was about the people's right to get an abortion because they have a right to privacy versus the government's interest.
How can one supreme Court roster determine roe was a violation of the 14th amendment and another roster rule it wasn't? That just incentives a political supreme Court. Roe shouldn't have been overturned, Congress should have had the burden of modifying the 14th amendment so that roe could be struck down.
I bet the justices are communicating with interested parties to let them know which rulings they now have the majority to overturn. Like a "hey bud, you should challenge the Chevron ruling now that we have a majority, and when it gets here, we'll get rid of that one too"
That doesn't fix the problem though - the legal system is extremely messy. It changes over time and rulings can be flat wrong, or the decision can be undercut by a legal argument coming at it from another direction
For example, citizens United changed campaign finance laws by reclassifying it under the first amendment. That decision means that any law limiting the ability for corporations to campaign for a candidate violates the first amendment, and could be struck down as unconstitutional. It was a bad decision, but congress doesn't have the authority to override it (by design)
The supreme Court shouldn't be writing things in stone - that's congress's job. The court is responsible for handling conflicts between laws, and the law changes over time. Their decisions are also contextual - they're based on the legal arguments presented in each case, so instead of repealing Roe they could've instead ruled that the state can forbid doctors from performing abortion without contradicting the previous decision
The fact that they're overstepping and using this role to legislate is an entirely different issue - they have way too much individual power and almost no oversight. Their decisions need to be challenged more, not less