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Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

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693 points macawfish | 5 comments | 12 Jul 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 1.214s | source
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soulofmischief ◴[12 Jul 25 18:59 UTC] No.44544204[source]▶
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chgs ◴[12 Jul 25 19:40 UTC] No.44544534[source]▶
If the Supreme Court agrees they are constitutional then they clearly are constitutional, unless you think the constitution doesn’t apply
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1. shadowfacts ◴[13 Jul 25 05:09 UTC] No.44547702[source]▶
> The Constitution of the United States was a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-constituti...

The Supreme Court is not the ultimate decider of what the layman's document means. It was wrong when it decided, for instance, Plessy v. Ferguson. The law that the Court upheld patently violated the Fourteenth Amendment and was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court was simply wrong.

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2. Hnrobert42 ◴[13 Jul 25 10:28 UTC] No.44549162[source]▶
It can both be wrong and the ultimate decider.
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3. soulofmischief ◴[13 Jul 25 14:47 UTC] No.44550819[source]▶
That doesn't make something Constitutional or not, especially when they choose to ignore extremely plain and direct language.
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4. Hnrobert42 ◴[13 Jul 25 22:01 UTC] No.44554160{3}[source]▶
By definition, the Supreme Court does decide what is Constitutional. It doesn't decide what is right or moral, but it does, according to the Constitution, decide what laws conform to the Constitution.
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5. soulofmischief ◴[14 Jul 25 16:43 UTC] No.44562214{4}[source]▶
That is their job, yes. But they don't always do their job, especially in a compromised government. Let's not pretend that Trump didn't stack the courts.