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Recently, the federal judiciary has seemed
like justice turned upside down

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Posted By: Big Bopper, 8/23/2022 2:50:03 PM

“In the popular television series Stranger Things, the “upside down” describes a parallel dimension containing a distorted version of our world. (See Stranger Things, Netflix 2022). Recently, Florida has seemed like a First Amendment upside down. Normally, the First Amendment bars the state from burdening speech, while private actors may burden speech freely. But in Florida, the First Amendment apparently bars private actors from burdening speech, while the state may burden speech freely.” –U.S. District Judge Mark Walker So goes the opening paragraph

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A Repbulica-leaning judge would never get away with kind of biased language.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: anniebc 8/23/2022 3:11:53 PM (No. 1257209)
Not just recently. Decades!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 8/23/2022 5:30:36 PM (No. 1257304)
Not all of it, but a huge chunk, that's for certain.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: doctorfixit 8/24/2022 12:19:54 PM (No. 1257871)
The federal judiciary must go. Un-elected, un-accountable tyrants. State courts with elected judges should handle these matters.
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