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Raquel Zel
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All opinions are my own, and they are terrible
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We need to appoint more public defenders to the bench. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

Enduring law is imperiled. Emerging law is stunted. A justice's personal values and ideas about the very old days suddenly control the lives of present and future generations. Recently, the Supreme Court erased a constitutional right. It recalled autonomy and empowered states to force birth "for one reason and one reason only: because the composition of this Court has changed." Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org., 142 s. Ct. 2228, 2319-20 (2022) (Kagan, J., dissenting). The day before, the court cherry-picked history to veto public safety legislation, disturb the tranquility of public places, and increase homicide. New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022). The same week, it promoted a conjured idea hostile to judicial restraint - "major questions." When executive branch policy-making grazes disliked policy preferences, major questions "magically appear as get-out-of-text-free cards." West Virginia v. EPA, 142 S. Ct. 2587, 2641 (2022) (Kagan, J., disse
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Raquel Zel
@raquelzel.bsky.social
All opinions are my own, and they are terrible
88 followers282 following86 posts
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