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Obamacare survives on, at a quick glance, what looks like a standing issue. Alito and Gorsuch only dissenters.Comment
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Also a unanimous Supreme Court says Philadelphia violated the first Amendment by refusing to contract with Catholic Social services because they wouldn't place foster kids with same-sex couplesComment
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Good. Why would the USSC want a charitable organization to stop doing a good thing?"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, .. I'd worn them for weeks, and they needed the air"Comment
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The Catholic services decision was blindingly easy. The real fight was how far they should have went with 3 justices very much wanting to overturn a dubious precedent and the other 6 content to rest on the facts of the case.
Meanwhile, as DSL noted, Obamacare survives. Remember when Ds demagogued the fuck out of ACB -- quite literally -- SHE'LL OVERTURN OBAMACARE! https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/...msaying-wrong/
I wonder if anyone outside of some NRO hack will take Biden and Harris to task for their preposterous demagoguery.Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.Comment
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The irony being that Scalia wrote the precedent they were pushing to overturn. I need to read that decision. Apparently Alito wanted to go further than Kav and Barrett were comfortable with. He also wrote an extremely long concurrence; it's like over 75 pages. Almost as if it was going to be the OPINION at one point but then those other two possibly changed their minds? Don't know. Dissents get that long sometimes but not normally a concurrence.Originally posted by iam416 View Post
On the Obamacare case I did find Thomas's little concurrence kind of funny. He basically said "look, no one hates the ACA more than me, but a crappy argument is a crappy argument"Comment
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Generally you try to decide the case on as narrow grounds as you can. There was probably no need to overturn Smith. But, man, Alito sure wants to!
Kav and ACB basically said it's dubious but we're not sure we're gonna do any better so let's punt until we absolutely have to deal with it.
The most important point here is that the preposterous fucking rule by the Woke Overlords of Philadelphia -- and I mean that with 100% sincerity -- was overturned.Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.Comment
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Georgia audit documents expose significant election failures in state's largest county | Just The News
wow another federal holiday.
but the kicker is the floyd statue in newark
never in the history of man has so little gotten so muchComment
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Charlie is really consistent and not just a dumber-than-normal hack
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Every lawyer who signed onto this buffoonery....
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What a fucking dumbass. The same old, "Repubs Freed the slaves but nothing has changed since then."Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
A position only held by morons.I feel like I am watching the destruction of our democracy while my neighbors and friends cheer it onComment
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Why bother.Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
As I said above, Trump sold The Big Lie and the rubes ate it up.I feel like I am watching the destruction of our democracy while my neighbors and friends cheer it onComment
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Thank God for fact checkers.Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove View Post
- PolitiFact quietly retracted a fact check from September 2020 on Monday that called a Hong Kong virologist’s claim that COVID-19 was a lab-created virus a “debunked conspiracy theory.”
- “The claim is inaccurate and ridiculous. We rate it Pants on Fire!” the now-retracted fact check stated.
- A PolitiFact editor’s note appended to an archived version of the fact check stated that the statements from scientists who asserted that the virus that causes COVID-19 could not have been manipulated is “now more widely disputed.”
PolitiFact retracted a fact check from September 2020 on Monday that had stated a Hong Kong virologist was pushing a “debunked conspiracy theory” when she said on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show that COVID-19 was a lab-created virus.
Virologist and former University of Hong Kong postdoctoral fellow Dr. Li-Meng Yan had claimed on Carlson’s show that not only was COVID-19 a man-made virus created in a Wuhan lab, but it was also released intentionally into the human population by the Chinese government.
“The claim is inaccurate and ridiculous. We rate it Pants on Fire!” PolitiFact’s now-retracted fact check stated.
The retracted fact check stated that Facebook posts that contained the comments Yan made on Carlson’s show had been flagged as part of the social media network’s efforts to curb fake news and misinformation.
PolitiFact uploaded a copy of the retracted fact check to its archive with an editor’s note explaining why it removed it from its website.
“When this fact-check was first published in September 2020, PolitiFact’s sources included researchers who asserted the SARS-CoV-2 virus could not have been manipulated. That assertion is now more widely disputed,” the editor’s note stated. “For that reason, we are removing this fact-check from our database pending a more thorough review.”
“Currently, we consider the claim to be unsupported by evidence and in dispute,” the editor’s note added.
PolitiFact’s fact check had linked to a statement published in the journal Nature Medicine in March 2020 by a group of five virologists who argued that the virus that causes COVID-19 exhibited no signs of purposeful laboratory manipulation.
Longtime New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade wrote in May that despite the Nature Medicine statement being “full of absurdly large holes” and “grounded in nothing but two inconclusive speculations,” it successfully “convinced the world’s press that SARS2 could not have escaped from a lab.”
PolitiFact retracted its fact check on Yan after it published a lengthy piece on Monday on the origins of COVID-19 that acknowledged that some virologists, such as Rutgers University professor Richard Ebright, say that available scientific evidence supports both a natural origin or a lab accident origin.
The story also acknowledged that some scientists contend that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was conducting risky gain-of-function experiments on bat-based coronaviruses and that the research was funded in part by a National Institutes of Health subgrant to the lab through the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance.
PolitiFact Editor in Chief Angie Holan declined to offer additional comment.
Despite retracting its fact check on Yan, a PolitiFact fact check on Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry, who made a similar claim in October that COVID-19 was “constructed” in a Wuhan lab, remains live on its website.
An editor’s note was added to the Perry fact check on Thursday after the Daily Caller News Foundation contacted the outlet for comment that acknowledges it is “now more widely disputed” that the virus that causes COVID-19 could not have been manipulated, but added that Perry’s claim that the virus was constructed remains false.
However, the body of PolitiFact’s fact check on Perry continues to state that there is no evidence that the virus was altered in a lab.
“Scientists worldwide have publicly shared the genetic makeup of the coronavirus thousands of times,” the fact check states. “If the virus had been altered in a lab, there would be evidence in its genome. But there isn’t.”
Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.
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