Supreme Court Hears Texas Abortion Law Arguments
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On today’s episode, David and Sarah react to the oral arguments in the Texas abortion law cases. The Supreme Court heard three hours of arguments in two different cases and from four different advocates. But after all of it, Sarah and David agree: it’s a mess…and it still doesn’t have anything to do with Roe v. Wade. They also discuss the latest grants, denials, and opinions coming down from the Court.
David makes a good point in that for many decades states passed and enforced "creative" laws in order to limit the rights of American citizens in the guise of upholding "morality" and "social norms." It took federal courts, the executive branch, and Congress to unwind at least the most egregious laws from that era. Now, one of the states that participated most heartily in such a system is creating clever, new ways to make laws that enforce its own views of what is and isn't a constitutional right. And is it a coincidence that this state is also working hard to prevent the study of how laws have historically been used to disadvantage Americans because of race, sex, religion, or status?
For future reference: Einstein did not actually say anything about explaining things so simply a six-year-old could understand it. That's a good tenet, but not one he came up with.
He is often attributed with something like "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" since 1950. That is actually a simplification of what Einstein actually said. The closest he came was "...the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience."
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/