The Law with D.K. Williams

A Speakeasy Ideas podcast: Giving the courts credit when they get it right, calling them out when they get it wrong.

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Ep 83 is out!

Herman Presser, back in 1879, while riding a horse and carrying a cavalry sword, led a parade of armed pro-labor socialists through Chicago in violation of state law. He was convicted & fined $10. #SCOTUS upheld his conviction.

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I love this story.

"The city government decided to take the property under the guise of eminent domain" in 1912. Now the family gets it back.

Now, let's undo the rest of the eminent domain forfeitures in the country.

All of them.

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@BuenoForMiami In the 20s they at least had the decency to pass the necessary constitutional amendment.

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Chaffee County, Colorado, come on out! We will have a blast!

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Breyer is correct.

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Remember, if you never talk to the FBI, you can't be charged with lying to them.

There is nothing more American than refusing to talk with law enforcement.

#ConstitutionDay
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He and Breyer agree on this.

And, frankly, most things.

#$SCOTUS

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I'm always amused when someone declares "the law is settled!" as if they've spoken some unbreakable oath, not realizing that was the slave states' position after Dred Scott.

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"Legal experts."

<Eyeroll>

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[The Hill @thehill]

ESPN reporter steps down over vaccine requirements https://t.co/A4UFK2kQGu

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"'What goes around comes around. And if the Democrats can do it, the Republicans can do it,' Breyer told the news outlet."

Indeed.

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The TX abortion law will eventually be struck down, I'm confident. Seth Meyers, whoever, demonstrates his ignorance by stating that an unelected court's refusal to overturn a legislative act is undemocratic. What does he think "democracy" is?

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Props to the prosecutor.

"Choi announced Wednesday his office will no longer prosecute felony cases resulting from minor traffic stops for violations like an expired registration, overly tinted windows, or broken lights."

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Props to the prosecutor.

"Choi announced Wednesday his office will no longer prosecute felony cases resulting from minor traffic stops for violations like an expired registration, overly tinted windows, or broken lights."

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And anyone who knows how #SCOTUS works says the same thing.

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Good

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#SCOTUS isn't "allowing" anything. They don't decide what to "allow" and "disallow." They hear legal arguments and resolve legal disputes and decide the proper application of the law.
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Letting the federal govt determine the legitimacy of its authority over the states is akin to letting the Lakers call their own fouls in a game against the Nuggets.

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...in Payne v. Tennessee [1991], adding that nothing else had changed since the court issued the earlier decisions, in 1987 and 1989. “Only the personnel of this court did.”

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We've discussed precedent many times before. It will be an important issue in the next several years.

An excerpt from this story:

“Power, not reason, is the new currency of this court’s decision making,” Justice Marshall wrote ...

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@mdnij34 No one should.