The right likes States' Rights, but probably not like this.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
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Oh, they're all about states rights... Unless the state wants safe and legal abortions, legal weed, or physician assisted suicide...
As a Missourian, it's funny how quickly a lot of the criticisms against legal weed went away once they realized just how much money (~$1B in a year) it was going to bring in for the state. It's almost as if a pretty large portion of conservatives don't actually have strong moral convictions other than making sure their side wins.
I believe the sentiment is “States’ rights for me, but not for thee.”
But really when they say “states’ rights” they really mean “we want to hurt women, screw black and brown people, and force religion on the rest,” usually at gun point (the only federal right they recognize) if needed.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether former President Donald Trump should be disqualified from the ballot in Colorado, thrusting the justices into the heart of the 2024 presidential campaign.
Both Trump and the Colorado voters who sued to bar him had asked the high court to weigh in and determine whether a part of the 14th Amendment designed to keep Confederates out of government after the Civil War should apply to the former president--and leading contender for the GOP nomination--later this year.
The question is an urgent one, since states are preparing to print ballots for absentee voters, military service members and Americans overseas in the coming weeks.
Last month, the Colorado Supreme Court set off the equivalent of a legal earthquake when it kicked Trump off the Republican primary ballot.
The court majority concluded that he violated his oath of office and that his actions around the storming of the U.S. Capitol three years ago amounted to participating in an "insurrection."
Trump's attorneys urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse that ruling quickly, arguing that if it is allowed to stand, it would "mark the first time in the history of the United States that the judiciary has prevented voters from casting ballots for the leading major-party presidential candidate."
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Funny how these fuckwits deny Jack Smith's request to decide Trump's immunity, but they fall over themselves to pick this up immediately.