The new bill comes after Andrew Bailey vowed to investigate companies pulling business from X, formerly Twitter over hate speech.
The new bill comes after Andrew Bailey vowed to investigate companies pulling business from X, formerly Twitter over hate speech.
Except that they can pass the bill, and enforce the bill, and the legislation stays active and in place until someone with standing files suit, goes to court (taking on the time and money expense of doing so), goes through the appeals process (and we know that the State could also appeal, so either way it goes), on and on until it gets to SCOTUS. All of which can take years, during which unconstitutional fuckery is foisted upon the good citizens of Missouri.
This is the standard that’s been set: do whatever the fuck you want, and abuse the judiciary to get away with it as long as possible.
And, you’re putting a lot of faith in the SCOTUS to actually do the right thing.
Yeah, I was describing the best case scenario.
Yeah the majority of SCOTUS has basically decreed that if an issue didn’t exist at the time of the founding of the Constitution then it cannot apply.
It’s very convenient when you can chuck out a solid 150 years of precedent and just pretend the intentions of a bunch of dead people. Fuck ethics and actually engaging with the wording of the law to dicern it’s intention amirite?
Also worth noting that it takes someone or a group with enough time and deep enough pockets to tend it to court just to set everything straight.
…and what that case will end up looking like is a company suing Missouri because Missouri won’t buy shit from them because they in turn won’t buy shit from companies that…aren’t carbon neutral, or also work with the timber industry, or don’t have enough PoC on their corporate boards, or w/e.