'What's all this talk I hear about banning dill dough?'
Posted on 04/14/2016 4:49:04 PM PDT by drewh
Of course I meant John Kasich and had a typo.
I think the line of discussion was during appeal arguments when Cruz as Solicitor General of the State of Texas was defending some law of the State of Texas.
This had nothing to do with any legislation, just a state lawyer arguing for his state to have a law stay in place. During the sort of presentation, the appellant judge(s) can introduce any sort of hypothetical questions to have either side carry their argument through on why the court should do X or Y.
How right your are! Is Texas really so well-off that THE most pressing issue they send their solicitor to argue about is dildos? Must be nice...a lot of states have real problems.
He made that argument with one hand tied behind his back.
Actually, he had a valid point. The sexual right to privacy was something courts developed 50 years or so ago and have been using to overturn state laws.
No, he did his job arguing the law as the chief lawyer for the state of Texas. If Texas law said everyone had to buy a dildo he would have argued for that.
'What's all this talk I hear about banning dill dough?'
It should have been something as simple as defending a right to zoning adult toy shops out of certain neighborhoods where a general retailer was not prohibited.
Well duh. Why do you think he had to resort to hookers?
we have a winner, no more calls please...
Sticky situation then for him. Wasn’t a fun job in some cases.
But could he have done it with a straight face?
Is banning them something really important for the success of the Republic?
If, as you say, he was arguing a position as Solicitor General for the State of Texas, then he, personally, was not trying to “ban” didlos or anything else. That is the purview of legislators at various levels.
Relevance of Kasich is not clear yet.
Danged if I know, but it’s for legislators to sort out, if anyone.
True. They used the right to sexual privacy to justify birth control, then abortion, and now all this “gay” stuff. I know a majority of Americans, conservatives included, have no issue with birth control. However, intellectual honesty requires one to acknowledge that the fight to legalize birth control was one of the first steps in our descent into rampant, society-approved sexual deviancy of all stripes.
He was Solicitor General of Texas at the time. His job was to defend the law that had been enacted by the State of Texas.
In this case, it was probably an outdated and overly intrusive law, On the other hand, I’m not sure society is greatly benefitted by the unchecked proliferation of “Adult” businesses that this law was intended to regulate.
Only a master debater could argue such a difficult case.
Like Roy Cooper, the Attorney General of North Carolina?
But just look at his record. He is a master debater and it seems to me that he had the case well in hand.
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