Michael O'Connor

Crypto Lawyer; ex-Kraken; Geek; Penn Stater; Catholic; Husband to an Awesome Wife. Opinions are my own.

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@DietCoke_Esq Pennsylvania is great. But don't get admitted here. We have weird CLE requirements.

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Weird. I don't remember the right "openly declaring" for decades that we wanted to make the court a "highly partisan right wing institution." Instead, the major conservative groups said over and over we wanted people who enforced the Constitution and laws as they were written, not as they might wish them to be.

Rewriting the Constitution to remake society is something the other side does.

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I don't pretend that the Holy Father has an easy choice on China. But from the beginning of the China deal, I have wondered how different history might be if local churches in persecution were called to join their suffering to Christ rather than trying to make compromises to "fix" the problem.

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@TheBrianEJohns @NoahPollak Weird. I don't remember Bari Weiss being appointed to a position in the Administration.

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@TylerGellasch @MeatEsq See, when Congress wants to express its "universal agreement" on something, the way they do that is writing it into the statute.

They were so specific about the CFTC's authority that they barred onion futures. But they didn't know how to write "or gaming"?

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@s__s_e_a @OrinKerr The Chief Justice is explicitly required by the Constitution.

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Except history and tradition should have been the legal test for everything from the beginning. Strict scrutiny was just as manipulable, and had the downside of being invented from whole cloth. Saying "we are going to enforce the right the way the people would have understood it at the time" is correct. History and tradition gets you there. Strict scrutiny does not.

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@CatholicPods For decades, most of the American hierarchy refused to appoint exorcists at all. One wonders why.

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@Konraddin The only problem is explaining it to the priest.

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@ZacMabry I don't really care. But I am genuinely confused here. Being a pilgrimage, aren't there pilgrims? Who could, you know, serve the Mass?

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@neontaster Something something medical privacy.

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@VictorianaSouth Indeed, one roughly 2000 years old.

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@GregoryCaridi @CatholicSmark I am aware of the dispute over the power of governance and its relationship to the cleric state. That dispute has no relationship at all to stubborn insistence on pointing out in every possible public forum that religious are laypeople. Sure they are. But it's weird.

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@GregoryCaridi @CatholicSmark At this point, that is like saying unmarried women need to be called spinsters. Language has moved on. Neither male nor female religious are clerics (except for the clerics), but one would commonly call them "religious," not "laypeople."

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@WalkingHymnal Yes, I knew about the "donec aliter provideatur" confirmations. I wasn't sure whether some had been fully confirmed or not; it seems not.

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@SKDoubleDub33 Link. The. Opinion.

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@Kharn_300BO @OliverBCushing @scotus_wire Given that the Supreme Court isn't listening to the literal text of the Constitution on this issue, color me skeptical they will listen to Congress.

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@ArlingtonDiva @mkhammer So you are constantly thinking about him and want to bring more attention to him?