If I am wrong on this, then there is NO law, No Constitution and we are free to use our “Reasonable Minds” to decide what we will and will not obey. Seems exactly what the USSC and our various levels of government are doing and how is that working out?
The 15th supports my theory on inferior lawyers crafting inferior legislation and a USSC so grossly inferior to not stop it dead in its tracks by telling congress, Uh, this Amendment is not allowed based on the ambiguities you stated.
Here is how it is supposed to be done if an Amendment might be in conflict with others: Section 1 of the 18th Amendment: “The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed”.
Such a poorly crafted Amendment like the 15th has no business in the Constitution. “Appropriate” in an Amendment MUST mean Constitutional unless is it otherwise defined or changed like in my example of the 18th above. If the USSC had demanded every instance of “Appropriate” be changed to “Constitutional” problem solved.
Just more proof that the law schools have become Lie schools and Lawyers are now Liars who will attempt to deceive us at every turn. Shakespeare was 100% right.
Appropriate is a 100% useless legal term used by people whose entire live is devoted to deception and half truths. That term was used deliberately to obfuscate anything some political scum wanted to do later in time.
Because the USSC did not stop such a poorly written Amendment they keep building more dubious laws on top of a weaker and weaker foundation.
If we are to believe our laws are so poor than even the best judges in the country cannot figure out what them mean, then please tell me why Ignorance Of The Law, is not considered a legal excuse.
Maybe instead of crafting a crap load of 1000+ page pork filled laws to get reelected we should demand our lawmakers spend the rest of their limited careers going over the hundreds of thousands of laws and regulations now on the books and cleaning up the language so even a dishonest USSC judge could understand?
Right now this government is only for the ruling elite and unless it is brought down we will go through the dark ages like the former Soviet Union. Cut them no slack otherwise they will hang you with that slack.
It seems to me that Republicans should be opposed to this Supreme Court ruling..Look, in 1965, when the VRA was passed, all the southern states were run by Democrats, top to bottom..now, they’re all just about run by Republicans..ergo, the VRA was a good deal for the GOP
That is the best lay-out I have seen in quite some time.
The whole concept of ‘void for vagueness’ has been tossed out so that layers, judges and the like can twist and ‘lawyer’ words/phrases into concepts and meanings outside what a ‘normal’ person would even begin to infer.
Yet, Congress and the like pass 1000+ page ‘laws’ that no one can read, decipher and hope to follow. And the courts, instead of striking the same damn as ambiguous, rubber stamp every damn thing out of the gate, while denying true Justice when tossing out cases based on ‘standing’...or having to have been hurt instead of preemptive.