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wijenshjehebehfjj4 karma

Do you think that the burn was necessary or would other options (like pumping to new containers, etc) be available? Of course there is suspicion that NS took the easiest/cheapest route to avoid an explosion.

wijenshjehebehfjj-1 karma

Found Gorsuch’s alt

wijenshjehebehfjj-2 karma

Because it lets the court reverse-engineer justification for however it wanted to rule. The text doesn’t say what you want it to say? No problem, scour vaguely-defined “history” until you find what you need. Still came up empty? Point to a “tradition” (whatever that means) and you’re good to go. Not to mention all the problems with turning judges into armchair historians, or the premise that whoever made the law 200 years ago was actually making scripture and would do the same thing today given current facts.

wijenshjehebehfjj-3 karma

“(Text), history and tradition” is nothing but a Rorschach test. How serious people can say otherwise with a straight face blows my mind.

wijenshjehebehfjj-12 karma

Nothing you said contradicts what I said, you just pretend it’s somehow objective.