Supreme court: preventing hedge funds from owning single-family homes infringes on their free speech to dictate what you have to pay to not be homeless.
they seem to have decided that “free speech” allows them to invalidate any law they don’t care for under the doctrine of “you’re forcing them to agree with the law by obeying it and that’s compelled speech”.
Supreme court: preventing hedge funds from owning single-family homes infringes on their free speech to dictate what you have to pay to not be homeless.
This exact opinion coming in 2024 if this bill somehow passes.
Bonus points if communism gets brought up in the process.
well, I mean, communism is when the government and the more the government the communister
The when what now?
they seem to have decided that “free speech” allows them to invalidate any law they don’t care for under the doctrine of “you’re forcing them to agree with the law by obeying it and that’s compelled speech”.
That’s really the entire republican platform in a nutshell. “being forced to obey laws violates my free speech or religious freedom”
that’s half of it. the other half is “being forced to let other people do what they want violates my freedom”
Damn it how could I forget that part
See: universities claiming religious exemptions to Title IX (so they can expel students explicitly for being pregnant, LGBT+, etc etc)