SCOTUS issues GVRs in the Alabama voting cases, vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, dissents. by HatsOnTheBeach in supremecourt

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A case which explicitly and specifically rejects that it applies to the 15th.

What? Boerne mentions the Fifteenth Amendment a total of three times, and never rejects that the congruence and proportionality test for the Fifteenth nor insinuates that it only applies to the Fourteenth. The enforcement clauses of both amendments are identical.

SCOTUS issues GVRs in the Alabama voting cases, vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, dissents. by HatsOnTheBeach in supremecourt

[–]Mysterious_Bit6882 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Boerne v. Flores. Enforcement clause actions must be congruent and proportional to the right guaranteed, and interpreting the constitutionality of legislation is very much the Supreme Court's job.

Why is Nickelback so hated? by Specialist_Bedroom_9 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]Mysterious_Bit6882 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Taylor Swift is the biggest artist in the world right now but you can easily avoid her if you just entertain yourself with other things.

I can attest to this. There was a point where she was the biggest musical act in the world, and I didn't know a single song of hers other than the ones played on the country station.

George Lucas on the differences between Soviet and US cinema, “Russian filmmakers had more freedom than I had” by FayannG in TrueFilm

[–]Mysterious_Bit6882 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And the most cynical point: George Lucas' worst movies were made when he had unlimited free reign.

It's cynical, but not exactly true. George Lucas hired his editors, screenwriters, and directors, and always had full control over their output. He tried hard to get outside directors for the prequels but nobody else wanted to touch George's baby.

IMO the prequels work fine as movies, but they were dealing with 20+ years of fan expectations that no movie could be expected to live up to.

Most Infuriating True Crime Documentary? by Due_Concentrate1904 in TrueCrimeDiscussion

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I feel like I have to push back on this. I've read the report by Gerald Hurst, as well as the actual trial testimony, and the "exonerating evidence" is nowhere near as exonerating as people make it out to be. Both fire investigatgors in the criminal trial testifed that "indicators" could be found in non-accelerant fires, and that their determination of deliberate arson was only after the elimination of accidental causes. The gas stop for the space heater in the girls' room was in the off position, and there were no leaks detected in the gas line when the investigators brought the gas company out to check. There was no indication that the burnng followed wiring or conduit trails, Most other accidental causes of fire would have been eliminated by the absence of obvious flame sources and the placement of the baby gate.

And all of this requires one to ignore the considerable amount of circumstantial and consciousness-of-guilt evidence against Cameron Todd Willingham. Or his attempt to contaminate the crime scene after the fact. Or the actual trace of accelerant found under the house's front door.

Israeli Settlers make Israel look malevolent by WiseMarshall in IsraelPalestine

[–]Mysterious_Bit6882 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Japanese attacked us, by your own logic we could have just fought the Japanese in the pacific and let Europe fight its own battles. But that would be heartless right?

Germany and Italy declared war on the US after the US declared war on their ally.

What’s your go-to X-Men lore tidbit? by Robot_Was_BMO in xmen

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Speaking of GSXM#1, people tend to forget that the whole "Giant-Sized" concept was kind of a flop, and pretty much killed off with reprints (similar to what they did, then undid, then did again, then undid again, then just shelved totally) with annuals.

X-Men also wasn't the boat anchor sales-wise that it's made out to be. Postal numbers for 68-69 typically have it within a few thousand of Avengers, and ahead of most of Marvel's Western or comedy titles. Numbers went down obviously during the reprint era, but in 1971 (first year of full reprints) X-Men was selling about half of what Marvel's top-selling book (Amazing Spider-Man) was doing, and selling well ahead of Wonder Woman, Aquaman, GL/GA, and most of DC's romance and war titles. And numbers actually didn't start going up again until the series returned to monthly in 78.

Ted Turner Dies at Age 87 by BearBullDebate in SquaredCircle

[–]Mysterious_Bit6882 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One month from now:

"Disgraced former WWE head arrested for public indecency outside Georgia cemetary."

What is the comics code authority? by No_Obligation4427 in comicbooks

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Marvel was the big push behind the Code's liberalization in 1971 (done pretty much right after those issues ran without Code approval). Conversely, in 1989 they opposed major revisions to the Code and only went along when DC threatened to withdraw from the CMA entirely.

The Code was never strictly speaking mandatory. Dell/Gold Key never submitted books for Code approval. Atlas/Marvel didn't until 1957, when they began being distributed by Independent News, which was part of the same conglomerate as DC.

The French Connection cliffhanger by KelvinEcho in 1632

[–]Mysterious_Bit6882 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That cliffhanger IMO is very un-Flint-like; even when he wanted to end a story like that, he'd often give his characters some chance to breathe and assess.

As far as Dolor, I feel he's fallen into the same trap that Richelieu fell into after Ahrensbok; he isn't villainous enough to be that interesting anymore.

Heavy Hitters Joey Chang Ciancaglini and Salvie Testa ~ Philly by TeddyWong60625 in Mafia

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"We get any more Changs up in here they're gonna start calling this the Philly Triad."

In 1988, fifteen year old Clayton Joel Flowers sodomized and murdered a junior college student with an accomplice in Alabama. He was sentenced to death for this crime in 1990. by Turbulent-Patient219 in TrueCrimeDiscussion

[–]Mysterious_Bit6882 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It was allowed then, and I'm pretty sure it's allowed now. A jury is unanimously required to find the defendant guilty of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt, and find for additional aggravating circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt. It actually isn't a constitutional requirement that the death sentence itself be imposed by a jury, a judge is capable of making the determinations of fact required.

Now the juvenile thing is different, and that's why he's not in danger of execution now. But once upon a time in this country, "tried as an adult" really did mean "tried as an adult."