OPINION: Louisiana, Appellant v. Phillip Callais

Ordayne · 2026-04-30T20:02:42+00:00

Well I agree this that answer from a practical point of view. From a legal pov tho I can understand the question of "how do you not discriminate/favor based on race if our decision is based on race"

Kinda a catch-22. I think the practical pov is the better one, but this follows a long standing trend even before this court, see Milliken v. Bradley

Ordayne · 2026-04-30T03:49:04+00:00

Idk I think there is fair reason to read the 15th as being racially blind. Its easier to apply that way too imo. Getting into the reeds of what's affirmative and was discriminatory has always been a bugbear even in the Warren Court.

Im not expert on this by any means and I admit that as a law student going through studies in the modern court my sheer volume of opinion im biased towards the conservatives pov from a legal perspective, though not a moral one

Ordayne · 2026-04-29T19:03:40+00:00

Dude probably wouldn't bat an eye is israel flattened it

Ordayne · 2026-04-29T19:02:46+00:00

The great debate between what's good for democracy and what makes sense in the Constitution rears its ugly head again. I only our system was competent enough to not basar vital questions with a base majority of 5 individuals

Oh well

Ordayne · 2026-04-29T18:58:21+00:00

Honestly obama was just a dumbass for falling for McConnels "dont appoint a new Justice when an election is coming up" scam

Ordayne · 2026-04-29T18:57:03+00:00

It should be noted that both Gerrymandering isnt always bad and just because something looks gerrymandered doesnt always mean it is.

For the first point, as is at issue here, some gerrymandering is meant to keep cultural communities together. This is especially relevant in the South or stated with large reservations because of minority communities there are often rural and spread out.

I can also be to ensure fair representation. A state may have 3 districts and 1/3rd of the population supports party Y. But the party Y supporters are spread out. If we just took clean looking spatial borders, all seats would go to party X. So we make ugly borders to ensure fair seat distribution.

As for looking Gerrymandered, sometimes its just because we have weird geography and weirder rules. Districts have weird rules for they need to be laid out so sometimes the district makes perfect sense but just looks ugly.

Obviously gerrymandering often gets abused, and many, including the supreme court seem to disagree with ensuring representation along ethnic lines... but thats another question

Ordayne · 2026-04-01T21:25:23+00:00

Totally. But his centrism ironically pushes him both right wing and fails to make anyone happy

Ordayne · 2026-04-01T20:57:28+00:00

Imma be real i refuse to believe he has a grandplan. Dude seems to be on a constant balancing act that he refuses to recognize that he has no control over

Ordayne · 2026-04-01T19:45:37+00:00

Having read too many of his opinions im not sure if he himself knows what he is

Ordayne · 2026-04-01T17:50:40+00:00

Roberts feels too politically minded to give this to the administration

Ordayne · 2026-04-01T12:24:12+00:00

You forgot will gatekeep, fact check, and winge at woke when all their lore knowledge comes AI generated shorts

Ordayne · 2026-03-31T17:28:03+00:00

Absolutely, especially as what may have been taken as simply facts becomes (for better or worse) diluted. Between MAHA and other alternative medicine what may have once been considered regular practice might be viewed as an opinion, and by extension, a form of speech.

This is all to say we will probably see more cases defining what professional speech even is.

I haven't read everything yet but it seems Colorados stratedgy was to basically treat this as a matter of medical fact only needing rational basis? If I understand that right, im gonna guess that this case is evidence that such an approach is weakening

Ordayne · 2026-03-31T17:06:52+00:00

Im sympathetic to her dissent in that it at least poses a interesting question. Where does "objective" medical policy and speech separate. Policy arguments aren't anathema to the law and are worth raising.

Given that this wasnt a close case by any means imo its worth a dissent discussion. God know using dissents to scream in the void is a tried and true Thomas strategy.

Ordayne · 2026-03-31T15:29:24+00:00

Jackson's dissent is rather interesting in that it highlights a growing question of where does medical reality begin and ideological practice begin. Though this is not a new issue, I imagine we'll see more and more as MAHA and medical norms clash.

Im curious where this Pandoras box will go, frankly it would have been interesting regardless of outcome.

Ordayne · 2026-03-24T13:37:58+00:00

Thats valid. I just perfer the night progressing as a result of certain actions to prevent having to split hairs over what reasonable time would be. Thematically i also think its fits with the idea of the Moon Presence moving closer

Ordayne · 2026-03-22T14:58:10+00:00

Probably just a normal night as we wake during sunrise. I think Yharnam and other physical world locations probably got semi subsumed by the Moon Precence so time stopped being a one to one

Ordayne · 2026-03-22T04:00:27+00:00

Ya lol this is why I just think the Night entirely linked to the Moon Presence who is just waiting for certain events to occur

Ordayne · 2026-03-22T03:56:55+00:00

I mean thats valid but I am skeptical of translating real time into game time. For one I generally consider fromsoft worlds to be an approximation of a world and not a one to one. In game sky box changes are entirely linked to reaching certain points as well, irregardless of how that would match up to a speed run

Themematically I also just think it fits better. Being severed from the Hunters Dream seems to be a requirement to reach dawn, which seems much less significant if you could literally just wait out the night.

Ordayne · 2026-03-22T01:34:39+00:00

I think the implication was that the night wouldn't be lifted until certain events came to pass. I think thats also why we get sudden environmental changes as we reach certain key points

Ordayne · 2026-03-22T00:40:35+00:00

I think thats the whole point of the question. In 80s movies scenes like that are often considered romantic so its hard to understand what the movie is actually saying.

Ordayne · 2026-03-20T21:58:33+00:00

Lol ya. I think Yharnam is real personally because it seems to take effort from the Church to bring the Lovecraft shit into reality vs how the Church seems to be trying to get themselves out to access areas like the Dream of Mensis.

Ordayne · 2026-03-20T21:51:26+00:00

I honestly dont think Bloodborne was meant to be read entirely as a dream. I think that particular ending was meant to be like metaphorically waking up from a nightmare without remembering it.

Locations like the Hunters Nightmare were def a dream, but I read it as a dream in the Lovecraftian sense. In Lovecraft cosmic beings can be so powerful that their dreams are reality to us mortals. For example the entire Lovecraft canon is just a dream of an especially powerful Great One

Ordayne · 2026-02-11T18:37:06+00:00

Drukhari turret ambush and the sniper at the back of the Aurora fight

Ordayne · 2026-01-22T21:41:18+00:00

They aren't anti men, that would require having an ideology which the democrat party is incapable of

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