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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I'm aware of that, but I'm also aware of a couple of more recent cases in threads some mods frequent, that were never touched. <shrugs> (And yes, I did point this out for those people.)
But this forum rules discussion is off-topic anyway.
edited 11th Sep '15 3:56:52 PM by TotemicHero
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Aren't they already tracked?
Also here's some immigration humor courtesy of Robot Chicken:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IaAxUGBzROg
Probably because the more moderate ones try to keep them underfoot for all the good it does.
If they were smart, the Republican Party would drop them, or banish them to Antartica.
At least there its all white, and there's no immigrants to deal with.
edited 11th Sep '15 4:49:58 PM by Skycobra51
Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.Not really. I think the idea was something to the effect of the Supreme Court being bad/its recent gay marriage decision not meaning anything legally.
But he's obviously wrong. Looking it up, the "Slaughter House Cases" from 1873 overturned Dred Scott:
"[It]had been said by eminent judges that no man was a citizen of the United States, except as he was a citizen of one of the States composing the Union...But it had been held by this court, in the celebrated Dred Scott case..that a man of African descent, whether a slave or not, was not and could not be a citizen of a State or of the United States. This decision, while it met the condemnation of some of the ablest statesmen and constitutional lawyers of the country, had never been overruled; and if it was to be accepted as a constitutional limitation of the right of citizenship, then all the negro race who had recently been made freemen, were still, not only not citizens, but were incapable of becoming so by anything short of an amendment to the Constitution. To remove this difficulty primarily, and to establish a clear and comprehensive definition of citizenship which should declare what should constitute citizenship of the United States, and also citizenship of a State, the first clause of the first section [of the 14th Amendment] was framed...it overturns the Dred Scott decision by making all persons born within the United States and subject to its jurisdiction citizens of the United States."
So yeah. Technically, the Supreme Court itself didn't overturn Dred Scott, but once the Reconstruction Amendments were passed, they did state outright that those Amendments overturned Dred Scott.
Basically, as the Court in the Slaughter House Cases noted, Dred Scott made it so that only a constitutional amendment could grant citizenship to/confirm the citizenship of African Americans, so voila, there was a constitutional amendment (actually three) after the Civil War.
Edit2- It's not really unusual come to think of it. There's been lots of times where Congress has passed laws in response to unpopular Supreme Court decisions and then from that point onward, the Supreme Court will tend to note something to the effect that those laws superseded the earlier decision.
edited 11th Sep '15 5:28:51 PM by Hodor2

I will note that while normally the mods aren't going to worry about rick rolls, here in OTC is probably about the worst place to do them (since they would be off-topic by default, on top of the other problems).
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)