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- From: lev0@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Ron Levy (Armchair))
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Colorado #2, Constitutionality
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.194421.27041@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:44:21 GMT
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- >Get real yourself and look at this from a practical standpoint, instead
- >of an emotional, reactionary one. If #2 takes away rights
- >guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, it will be ruled unconstitutional
- >and be overturned.
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- Wrongo. Hundreds if not thousands of state and local laws have taken
- away rights clearly guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, and they still
- stand. Challenging something in the Supreme Court takes lots of time
- to work up through the appellate process, lots of money for lots of
- lawyers, and has absolutely no definable chance of success.
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- One of the many reasons for this is that the Supreme Court doesn't
- have to take any court case it doesn't want to. Therefore, if the
- Supreme Court doesn't feel up to actually making a constitutional
- ruling, they don't have to, and nothing at all happens.
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