I’d posit that the entirety of the US is illegitimate, but it is amusing that people who believe in adhering to every single letter in a document authored 250 years ago are taken remotely seriously
Yes but if your entire intelligence plusca few high end gpu’s are turned to the task of justifying whatever you currently feel, and that is the entire purpose of everything in the world, then you can totally pick and choose.
They really are brilliantly stupid, and I mean it when I say that.
How tf is an amendment illegitimate? It’s an amendment. It amends the constitution
I’m going to introduce an amendment to the constitution that reads, “this amendment is unconstitutional”. Boom. Instant constitutional crisis.
https://www.valleydude70.com/blog-1/2020/9/29/amy-comey-barrett-and-the-fourteenth-amendment
If they claim the 14th is illegitimate but make no such claim about the 13th and 15th, it’s just what @urmums401k said. If they claim all 3 are illegitimate they’re a fucking confederate sympathizer and should be tarred and feathered as such
no this is great because if original popular sovereignty is the basis of legitimacy then she’s definitely endorsing the idea that the united states itself is completely illegitimate. the constitution was imposed on the american people without the support of the necessary supermajority of those same people, since a supermajority of them were explicitly denied enfranchisement by that very constitution.
If I were a us supreme court justice in 2024 I would be pretty careful when throwing around words like ‘illegitimate.’
Pretty sure she’s just saying an originalist would have to oppose the existence of West Virginia to be ideologically consistent. Expecting any American politician to have an ideology is lib shit though
Yeah Antonin Scalia was a textualist until he wasn’t, until he was again, until he wasn’t.
Listen everything Scalia wrote was ideologically consistent because it used the same verbiage as Bush V Gore, “limited to present circumstances”.
I don’t really see why. Multiple states had previously been split from existing states without controversy (including Kentucky also split from Virginia). All that’s required is the approval of the state legislature and Congress. The Virginia state legislature as recognized by Congress and the President voted to allow the counties of West Virginia to leave and form their own state. Congress and the President approved.
49 state flag vendors salivating
