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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • From the text of the resolution:

    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING, That the General Assembly of the State of Iowa rejects the decision of Obergefell v. Hodges ; and
    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the General Assembly of the State of Iowa calls upon the Supreme Court of the United States to reverse the Obergefell decision, and restore the natural definition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman…

    Does the Supreme Court even have the power to reverse a previous decision without a new case revisiting the issue?

    And doesn’t it violate the separation of powers in multiple respects for a state legislature to tell the Supreme Court how to interpret the federal constitution?










  • I think it’s a reaction to another institutional tendency, which is to treat the best known theories as if they were incontrovertible facts.

    Science and history are largely the search for closer and closer approximations to truth, but those approximations are always flawed and incomplete. And if they’re presented as already-attained truths, a critic can point out the flaws as evidence of deliberate deception—and then present any alternative they like without its being subjected to the same scrutiny.