there's was a 7-2 ruling on threats being protected by the 1st amendment (in most cases)
politics
Thursday, June 29, 2023
“The State must prove in true-threats cases that the defendant had some subjective understanding of his statements’ threatening nature,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the majority.
you can say something intending it to be hurtful, shocking, vulgar, demeaning, or otherwise inflict harm
but you need to show provable premeditation that you intended that statement to cause true harm
some stalker in Colorado argued successfully, that's a nice win for free speech
Counterman sent a Colorado musician as many as 1,000 messages during a two-year span that began in 2014. She ignored his messages and repeatedly blocked him, but he continued to send messages that implied he was watching the woman, was romantically interested in her and was frustrated by her lack of response.
Friday, June 30, 2023
Student loan forgiveness is dead
6-3 vote
“The Secretary’s comprehensive debt cancellation plan cannot fairly be called a waiver – it not only nullifies existing provisions, but augments and expands them dramatically,” Roberts wrote. “However broad the meaning of ‘waive or modify,’ that language cannot authorize the kind of exhaustive rewriting of the statute that has taken place here.”
The White House sought to use the HEROES Act authority to waive the debt.
Roberts said the government needed direct authorization from Congress.
“The question here is not whether something should be done; it is who has the authority to do it.”
from some article I found
no, 6-3
oh lol
he uses the jew name extension I assume
the ruling is 100% just "this is legal, if you make congress do it, stop trying to use random laws to force this through"
and then Biden responded by
Biden is retarded