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If the Court continues on its present path, we’ll eventually see Alito writing the opinion that declares the Emancipation Proclamation executive over-reach and reinstates slavery via the US v Bezos case (“the government has failed to show that Mr. Bezos’ fully-owned employees have suffered any injury sufficient to declare his ownership null and void”).

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The case is more likely to be based on property rights. Outlawing slavery is a direct violation of every corporate citizen's right to own human beings, and thus the law and all applicable constitutional amendments must be struck down.

Frankly, I'm surprised the Suicide Six have not yet directly declared most of the constitution to be unconstitutional. As we all know, the entire document consists of "GUNZ4WhiteFolks" and "Welcome to JeebusLand." None of the other parts exist or need be heeded.

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"We're Constitutional originalists in that originally there was no Constitution..."

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Originalists in that they agree with the slavers who founded the government.

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Looking at how their recent decisions have checked all the "major Democratic constituency" boxes (lessee... Women, LGBTQ folk, indebted young people, who did they miss?) I'm a little surprised they didn't fit in an attack on unions. Maybe savin' it for the next term? Expect a return to the pre-1930's reasoning that a union has no right to interfere with "an employment contract freely entered into."

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Don't forget their slam on Black people: "you can get a leg up as cannon fodder in the armed services, but don't think we'll let you into OUR universities." They played all the hits, and I share your surprise they didn't find a way to add "fuck unions."

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"Well, if they wanted to get into Harvard, why didn't their grandfather build a library there, huh?"

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Whiffenp...OOF

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You're confusing "build" with "paid for." Some of their ancestors probably did build Harvard's libraries.

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Oof.

OOF.

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They would have to take out the 13th Amendment which states

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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There ya go with those pronouns again!

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