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[Cyber Liberty]

And if neither can't or won't, we need a Supreme Court to strike such laws down without rewriting them as @EdinVA says.

As long as we understand that John Roberts is not a Justice we can hang on the Bad Orange Man.

[EasyAce]

As long as we understand that John Roberts is not a Justice we can hang on the Bad Orange Man.

@Cyber Liberty
We can hang the BOM (sorry, you left me the opening!) for a good many things, but he did give us Neil Gorsuch. (And even there, he needed the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation to prompt him, since he probably wouldn't have known Gorsuch from Gorcey---Leo, that is ;)---on his own at the time.)

[Cyber Liberty]

@Cyber Liberty
We can hang the BOM (sorry, you left me the opening!) for a good many things, but he did give us Neil Gorsuch. (And even there, he needed the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation to prompt him, since he probably wouldn't have known Gorsuch from Gorcey---Leo, that is ;)---on his own at the time.)

Any old thing to keep the trope rolling, eh?   

[EasyAce]

Any old thing to keep the trope rolling, eh?   

@Cyber Liberty
I don't know about rolling a trope, and I've certainly never smoked trope, but I prefer to keep the tape rolling, such as when I get to fulfill one of my musical bucket list items this week. (Namely, playing in a guitar-organ-drums trio such as those once done by the like of Jimmy Smith, Baby Face Willette, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, and Big John Patton. I always did like that type of lineup for bluesy jazz and jazzy blues.)

On the other hand, when I was a kid I could hit frozen tropes to the opposite field . . . 

[Bigun]

@EdinVA
@DB
@Bigun

What we really need are Congresses that quit writing and passing unconstitutional laws in the first place.

If they can't or won't, we need presidents who remember a) they're not the nation's chief lawmakers, and b) that their oaths of office aren't just part of a swearing-in ceremony, and veto such laws, saying in plain language why, and letting it be on a Congress's head if they override the veto.

And if neither can't or won't, we need a Supreme Court to strike such laws down without rewriting them as @EdinVA says.

Quite right @EasyAce!  To a man, the founders expected that no one would ever vote for a law that they personally thought to be unconstitutional and no president would ever sign one.  Nowadays they vote for it in order to see what's in it.  Very sad state of affairs.

[Cyber Liberty]

@Cyber Liberty
I don't know about rolling a trope, and I've certainly never smoked trope, but I prefer to keep the tape rolling, such as when I get to fulfill one of my musical bucket list items this week. (Namely, playing in a guitar-organ-drums trio such as those once done by the like of Jimmy Smith, Baby Face Willette, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, and Big John Patton. I always did like that type of lineup for bluesy jazz and jazzy blues.)

On the other hand, when I was a kid I could hit frozen tropes to the opposite field . . . 

I used to collect tropes, but my ex got them all in the divorce.  Never missed 'em.   

[EasyAce]

I used to collect tropes, but my ex got them all in the divorce.  Never missed 'em.   

@Cyber Liberty

Give 'em enough trope . . .

[jmyrlefuller]

"We tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization." —Charlton Ogburn, 1957

[Smokin Joe]

"We tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization." —Charlton Ogburn, 1957

I like that! Nice quote, sad that it is true.