Some oven timers go “ding.”
Others go “dong.”
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I thought it’s because there is nothing there that anyone wants. I always thought Wisconsin was paying them to keep it. I can think of entire US states I’d be willing to pay France to take over.
I remember being a square with an arrow sticking out of it trying to kill dragons.
Hell, I remember being lost in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
For the record, I’m playing advocatus diaboli here. I agree that your interpretation is the traditional one.
That said, it has not been challenged, as far as I know, and attributions of original intent (and by now even the application of previous rulings) are the subject of legal argumentation and opinion. My point was that the Constitution does not explicitly set a temporal component to the term of a federal justice, and it does not explicitly forbid one. This it would not take a constitutional amendment to set a term limit, but rather a finding that the law did not violate the constitution (which again would come down to an interpretation since it’s not explicitly set).
But what’s the definition of “Office” in this context? The Office of the President, for example, is defined as a span of four years. President is the title and Office includes both title and time, as do many other political positions.
So what I’m saying is that there’s nothing there that says Congress cannot pass a law saying the Office of a Supreme Court Justice is defined as holding the position for six years.
I’m not familiar with a constitutional ban on term limits, and the idea has been floated by people at fairly high levels. Where do you think the restriction is, and do you think any limits could apply to new justices even if the currents are grandfathered in?
shit heal
Chaotic evil clerics are the worst.
Thank you. Yes, that was my impression. I’m cis, but I’ve been politically active for the community for awhile, and (most) of us take the solidarity stuff pretty seriously. There’s always the Log Cabin Republican or lesbian TERF who is otherwise incredibly liberal, but they’re mostly the exception, in my experience. The Democrats have recognized that, at least , and have generally resisted right wing efforts to split the community with transphobia.
It’s obviously shit here and getting worse, but the trans community has a definite “side” in politics, and the majority of the LGBT community is there as well.
Does the trans community there feel split off from the queer community in general? Do they feel represented in government, or is it like the 1959s?
Is it the same story with the trans community? In the US, our current round started a few years ago with southern states doing the culture war thing with bathroom bills. Basically, we’ve been gaining rights and representation for the past few decades, but marriage equality was the main focus. We went from Clinton passing the Defense of Marriage Act which banned the US from passing marriage equality and permitting states to outlaw it, to a conservative court instituting it. We also saw a climb in support for marriage equality reach majorities even among republicans. Once they realized they lost that war, they re-aligned as anti-trans. Once they saw they were getting traction there, they’re now going after the LGBT community as a whole again.
In the US, there’s a pretty general perception that the mainstream UK is more transphobic, so is that a misconception, or does it also apply to both Tories and Labour, or is the LGBT community not in solidarity (if the Tories are transphobic but others are not, if that was unclear)?
For me it’s always been dinner and drinks. I like restaurants that are oriented around shared plates, like tapas or some American restaurants. I’ll generally only date-date like that after we’ve connected in conversation and I’m confident that the dinner conversation will be a continuation of how we’ve been connecting before.
Sometimes it falls flat, but we still get drinks and a chat out of it. Sometimes it’s just a great date, and sometimes things move on from there. My thing is that if I’m looking for something serious, I want to have those engaged conversations and interactions from the start.
-Metatron, as played by Snape