The Big Lawsuit

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by finnbow

When you read the following, it seems apparent that Larry Tribe has been reading my posts here on PC.

Could be Finn. We do have an inordinate amount of lurkers hanging around here at any given time.

[Pio1980]

It also appears that boner has no legal standing to bring this suit against the POTUS as an unaffected person.

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[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

It also appears that boner has no legal standing to bring this suit against the POTUS as an unaffected person.

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Aw. Poor thing. Add that to the growing list of things that Republican government officials don't know about the rules of government.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

So let's invade and teach them a lesson the Afghans refuse to learn.

Originally Posted by whell

Fine with me. You go first.

Originally Posted by donquixote99

So speaks every warmonger, every time there's a war.

Originally Posted by finnbow

Indeed. It's the Republican battle cry.

"....Armchair warriors often fail, we've been poisoned by these fairytales....."



Dave

[Zeke]

Somehow, I sense the Republican Party often fails to recognize they're dealing with a Constitutional Law Professor.

He's lost once -- ONCE -- on a narrow ruling being addressed as we speak.

[piece-itpete]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Be careful what you agree with. "You can't legislate a man's heart" sounds suspiciously like the "you can't legislate morality" slogan used by opponents of civil rights laws.

What you can do, and what we needed to do, and did do, in the civil rights era, was legislate behavior, in our own country. This is what law is for.

The objection to fixing Hondouras, etc, should be 'you can't legislate in someone else's country,' not 'you can't legislate a man's heart.'

Interesting. I first heard the phrase from a black man.

Pete

[BlueStreak]

You can't legislate morality, but the GOP will certainly try again and again. Won't they, Pete?

Actually, it's not the morality that is legislated. It truly is impossible to force a degenerate to behave according to your morality. But, we can punish unacceptable behavior.

The only trouble is in defining what is most broadly "unacceptable".

Dave

[merrylander]

This is where soci@lism fell on its arse, you cannot make people love their fellows. One man has been tried and they crucified him. What you can do is pass laws that will punish people who take away the rights or property of their fellows.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Interestingly, the countries where we sent in the CIA to support the juntas (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) are where the problems are and the target of our intervention (Nicaragua) remains relatively safe and is actually taking in refugees from the 3 countries.

It's the price of empire and both parties are full participants in The Great Game.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

You can't legislate morality, but the GOP will certainly try again and again. Won't they, Pete?

Actually, it's not the morality that is legislated. It truly is impossible to force a degenerate to behave according to your morality. But, we can punish unacceptable behavior.

The only trouble is in defining what is most broadly "unacceptable".

Dave

Democrats attempt to legislate morality too - health care being an example.