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Dave Goldberg
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Physicist, Progressive, Family Man.
As a non-lawyer, I have a silly question: why is Marbury v Madison in any way binding? How did the Supreme Court get to assert that the Supreme Court has the power to constrain the other two federal branches when a plain reading of Article III gives them no such authority. Conflicts between states, sure. But not the actions of the legislature or executive.
Jay KuoMy summary of the week in tweets and memes is out! Have a great weekend. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-week-in-tweets-and-memes-a12?sd=pf
The Week in Tweets and Memes
Hoo boy. This week was a doozy. It started off, as so many bad things do these days, with Russia. Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, one of the few men in Russia we’d actually prefer less than Putin to lead the country, decided he wanted to stage a mutiny, so he fabricated a story about an attack on his own mercenaries by the Russian army, then rolled quickly into the Southern District Military Command center in Rostov-on-Don, meeting no resistance from the local forces whatsoever.
Alecia Batson (she/her)@mcnees Here’s composer Frank Wilhoit’s complete comment » https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288
And here’s more about composer Frank Wilhoit » https://www.broadheath.com
James GleickNo gay couple ever asked her to do a website for them. She never got the chance to say no. The Supreme Court of the United States has now weighed in to say: We’re sorry you’ve never been able to discriminate against gay people, and if the opportunity ever arises, go for it. https://mstdn.plus/@EllenJS/110636263089483306
EllenJS (@[email protected])
@[email protected] There was recognition of issues with this case by some media months ago. This article is from December 1 2022 “A deep irony of this case because it should have been rejected because there is no live dispute,” Sepper said. “Because this business does not do wedding services, has never designed a website for a wedding and therefore doesn’t face a live circumstance where a same-sex couple has asked for a wedding website.” https://www.cpr.org/2022/12/01/this-colorado-web-designer-doesnt-want-to-make-wedding-sites-for-same-sex-couples-the-u-s-supreme-court-will-decide-whether-thats-legal/
Robert McNeesThe last few rounds of SCOTUS decisions remind me of this comment by Frank Wilhoit on a post over at Crooked Timber:
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Max KennerlyIn the student loan case, SCOTUS held that the text of the law passed by Congress allowed Biden to do exactly what he did, but the GOP Justices didn't feel like he should, and therefore they were not going to let him.
Let's be clear: nothing happened to the plaintiff in 303 Creative, the whole "case" was a hypothetical exercise, and the GOP Justices used it as a vehicle to undermine every single federal, state, county, and city anti-discrimination law in the country.
There's now a special exemption for any bigot who wants to claim their work is "expressive," even if the work they do doesn't express any message at all.
Gee. I wonder how the illegitimate court is going to rule on Biden’s student loan forgiveness (and also how they would have ruled in the alternate universe where trump put it forward).
John Carlos BaezYeah, cosmic gravitational noise is cool... but check out this brand-new image of the Milky Way taken in *neutrinos*!
https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2023/June/Drexel-Physicists-Produce-New-Images-of-Milky-Way-Galaxy
Thanks to @bstacey for pointing this out.
The neutrinos are in blue, while the dust clouds and other stuff were photographed in visible light and superimposed just for context. Here's an animated gif that fades the neutrino view in and out:
