Posted on 08/02/2025 11:48:09 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2
I'd say that's wishful thinking while hoping to be wrong.
IT SHOULDA NEVER BE ABLE TO EXIST!!!!
I’ll believe it when the ruling comes out, until then.... it’s hopeium.
This and counting illegals could help turn things around to the better.
I'm glad I'm not the only one to remember this. I remember the discussion that two white Democrat districts could be shifted into one black Democrat districts and the Democrat Party would be trapped into not opposing it.
Ohio was shockingly gerrymandered after the 2010 census. A 56 R - 43 D vote split turned into a 12-4 seat split in 2020. One district famously ran from Toledo to Cleveland to gather Dems from both cities together. A state constitutional amendment was passed to reduce gerrymandering by simplifying and reducing the perimeter of districts. That resulted in about the same 57 R - 43 D split, but a 10 - 5 seat split (lost one due to the census). Even that districting was disapproved by the state supreme court, but the clock ran out on fixing it to their satisfaction.
Finally! (I hope)
Great Society Medicaid and Medicare remain.
FDR ‘s Social Security Ponzi scheme
These relics of the past must be addressed for a future US that is not a joke.
Wrong. There is no disagreement about the meaning of “person”. The issue boils down to the phrase
“subject to the laws thereof”. Have illegals made themselves not subject to the laws?
For the first 150 years of the USA there were no meaningful immigration laws except for exclusion of Chinese. There was no such thing as an illegal immigrant. My ancestors did not ask for, nor receive, permission to come here. Yours too, probably. It is relatively recently that we created this very complex and idiotic immigration system. But there is no serious attempt to fix it.
John Mcain’s Gang of 8 did not benefit immigrant wannabes. It did not benefit those of us already here. It only benefited immigration attorneys.
Constitutionally, healthcare and “social security” are up to the people and their states, not the feds.
Federal meddling in healthcare and “social security” (SS) is patently unconstitutional and should be dismantled. But federal SS will have to slowly ramp down since the feds owe SS to people who have paid SS taxes.
Try getting your quotes correct before chastising somebody with ignorant blather.
By misquoting I get you to focus not on the meaning of “person”; but on “law” vs “jurisdiction thereof” which strengthens my point.
Can’t wait to see kimoji’s dissent
The 17th Amendment was ratified because wanna be Senators were openly buying their Senate seats and the people were unhappy about it.
I understand that the idea that it would be impossible to influence the election of Senators by taking it out of the the hands of the state legislators and into the hands of the public would make it harder to influence the result of Senate elections.
That didn’t turn out to be the case. Big money was still able to try to pick who would be a state’s Senator. But it completely changed the nature of American government. Instead of the Senate being a representative of state governments, it became another glorified House of Representatives. States lost their say in the operation of the federal government.
Why does the Constitution give the power to ratify treaties and appointments to Federal offices, including the Supreme Court? Originally this was to give state governments a say in what treaties were made and what officials and judges were confirmed. This is how the Founders visioned the relationship between the states and the federal government should be. This was all eliminated by having Senators elected by the people of the states rather than the state legislatures.
We need to look at deliberately giving their power cities so many seats and most areas get no representation. The Founding Fathers warned of it.
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