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Supreme Court... (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by lewosadebu to c/best_of_mastodon

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So lemme get this straight.

Lorie Smith, owner of 303 Creative, doesn't actually design websites. Her company doesn't actually provide that service.
Stewart (last name withheld) didn't ask for a wedding site for him and his husband from her.
Stewart isn't gay. He's married to a woman and they have a kid together.
AND what could possibly be the most ironic occupation for Stewart to have? He's a web designer.

You can't make this shit up. Or I guess you can. Because Lorie and the Supreme Court did.

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[–] Lifetrip 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they made their decision based on a fucking lie ? What the hell is that.

[–] Lantic 14 points 1 year ago

That's US "democracy" Bought and paid for, wholesale.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's just the result of the inability to challenge laws unless you're personally affected.

In Germany we have something called abstrakte Normen-Kontrolle, which does exactly what it sounds it does: Federal or state governments or a quarter of members of parliament can ask the Consitutional Court to review a law in the abstract and decide wether it's compatible with the constitution.

This saves a lot of headaches when it comes to laws that are on the books but unenforced, or are new and so far unchallenged.

[–] Socsa 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The whole idea of "standing" is to prevent contrived arguments about chipmunks and candycanes from driving jurisprudence. I think it's a reasonable bar to have, as long as it is enforced evenly, which in this case it obviously was not.

[–] ryathal 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Standing is important to maintain to keep courts from being completely overrun, but it's also important to have a way to get cases heard without standing in extraordinary circumstances. A handful of times laws get passed that negatively affect many people, but not enough to qualify for standing, effectively making the law above reproach, which is bad for everyone.

[–] Corkyskog 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like y'all are saying the same things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Which is probably why it's restricted to the parties I mentioned above.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is this referring to?

[–] FeatherConstrictor 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Driving me crazy that I didn't find an answer so while this is old, this is the first article that popped up when I searched "Lorie Smith Court"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you so much, came across this by chance and was completely and utterly lost what this was referring to.