re: So I took my very liberal lawyer Aunt to the SC vs Auburn women's game tonight

Is the reason you don't talk to your daughter due to political beliefs?

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Long story short ... she flat out told me tonight, this country is in a mess when the 9th Circuit Court, no matter how much she hates Trump ... the country is in real mess, in real danger, when the 9th Circuit Court gets one like this so blatantly wrong.

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Thanks. I appreciate your account of what your aunt said.

And no, it was not too long. It saddens me to see some people's ability to focus on something like this, be it due to intolerance or short attention spans or partisan dumbness or attention deficit disorders or drunkenness or a deluded sense of coolness. Whatever.

Your aunt sounds like a principled lady. How fortunate for you to have time to spend with her in conversation. I love the part about your Sonic tradition, too.

Thanks again.

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because I am a deplorable in my 60s

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Me too. I would love to meet the Ole Gal..... wisdom from folks of her kind is a rare find.
Cool story

Fake news!

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You may have bigger issues you should be dealing with rather than this decision which is beyond your control and quite frankly has zero real impact on your life.

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Anyways, long story long.

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pics?

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Then tell a boring story about something that ends up with you qualifying your fears and your bug out shelter.

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Admin needs to delete this. You basically just doxxed yourself if she's as well known as you say

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Brought to you by the party of "NO"

A perfect example of how the left conducts itself,

take her as many basketball games as she wants. just be too busy to take her to the polls.

I downvoted because of the liberal woman lawyer thing

It's a good story. Your aunt sounds like a character and I'm glad you have a good relationship despite differences.

But this "first year law student could get it right" stuff is just ridiculous IMO.

Listen, I'm largely a textualist, so I agree with the majority of this board on the majority of constitutional interpretation questions. But as an initial matter, this goes pretty far beyond a simple matter of "plain meaning" or whatever characterizations are frequently thrown around on this forum.

Originalism or textualism, can be, and are, used by libertarians to advocate against immigration law as a whole. The same generalized theories of statutory/constitutional interpretation (originalism/textualism) can provide different results based on the strain of reasoning within that theory. So as a very initial matter, people tend to overlook that even textualist heroes (Scalia) avoided strict constructionism and made exceptions to avoid absurd results. Scalia advocates for textual interpretation construed "reasonably," and that is inherently subjective.

The second problem is that the status quo simply isn't what those of us with reserved ideas about statutory interpretation wish it to be. Either a majority or significant minority of judges do not abide by a Scalia-like textualist approach (or originalism or some other little-c conservative theory). Likely a large majority of all legal scholars would advocate for something other than originalism or textualism. I don't like that, but it's true.

So while we can say "It's simple" and sometimes really believe that, it just doesn't matter. The truth is that textualists and originalists have contributed significantly to judicial activism in this country. There is simply no way to address the the host of issues we ask our federal courts to address based on relatively brief writings from 230 years ago without that being the case.

She seemed to be more a a women's rights proponent then a civil rights proponent. I know they are connected to a degree but the way you describe it put her contribution to both on kind of on equal footing. I was expecting to read about all her marches and court battles during the era of segregation. Nonetheless, she surely has been a prominent figure in SC for a very long time. Fascinating that she sells real estate at her age. Very admirable that she just refuses to allo age to keep her from leading an active life. Thanks for sharing.