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They do care about precedent, usually too much in my opinion. There have been many cases in the last few years brought to SCOTUS seeking the overturning of the doctrine of Qualified Immunity, but SCOTUS has in all cases either not taken them up or not ruled on that issue. They basically keep saying, "we've already ruled on this, we won't touch it unless Congress changes the law in some way." Dobbs was like the one issue SCOTUS has actually overturned a previous opinion on in recent years.

They just care that it sounds good to pro-life voters and donors who haven't thought too hard about it.

Kavanaugh was never that extreme. He's the squishiest of the 3 Trump nominees by far. Gorsuch is way more consistent, actually in a good way much of the time, like when he wrote the majority opinion prohibiting certain discrimination against gay and trans people using a originalist textualist approach.

I actually don't think Dobbs affected this that much. Texas was trying to circumvent Roe before Dobbs, anyway, not using criminal prosecution but by allowing people to be sued in civil court for abortion.

Something something it's not commerce because reasons.

Nevermind that the Commerce Clause has been cited to give the federal government authority to prohibit activities that are neither commerce nor inter-state, such as growing cannabis for personal use on your own property.

Schroedinger's commerce. It's commerce only when it's convenient for prohibitionists.

If you have enough savings, sometimes they don't even look at your credit score and history.

That would not surprise me, but prices could still crash if that happened. Bail outs happen after that.

I was kind of joking, but I did see this recently which made me wonder if the institutional buyers/investors thing is a bit overhyped and coming to an end not that far into the future:

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Great info, thank you.

"But parenting is hard. I'd rather the government be my kids' parent."

I think people use things like Reddit for anything because Reddit has a built in system of human curation. It's not just SEO engineered garbage fake websites like basically every search engine will yield now, or sites' internal searches pushing you to their top players instead of what you're actually searching for.

The article also mentions how storms are becoming increasingly deadly, which they're not, necessarily. It's so up and down year to year it's hard to pick out an actual trend.