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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Mon Jun 25 14:08:09 2012, in response to Re: GWU Law Prof Wants 19 Member Supreme Court, posted by AlM on Sun Jun 24 19:03:54 2012. You're saying that TWO different powers can try you for aspects of a single offense committed in ONE jurisdiction.If by claiming past precedent was wrong in it's entirety (like Brown V BoE and Roe V Wade) than yeah, you're right. Read Citizens United. All it says is that corporations HAVE to be treated the same as individuals when it came to political contributions. It did not give them any special rights and did not make them immune from the same campaign finance restrictions placed on individuals, unions, non profits or religions because the 1st Amendment is supreme. Prior to Brown V BoE, the "precedent" was to maintain a system that kept African Americans as 2nd class citizens (Plessy V Ferguson). The SCOTUS is the only institution that can effectively tell the judicial system beneath it "hey, you got it wrong, repeatedly. Now here's how you are supposed to rule". In fact, that's the main reason they exist. |
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