• cabbage@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    32
    ·
    edit-2
    5 days ago

    I feel like they might have been wise to wait for a less fucked up SCOTUS before taking this before it.

    It’s not a bad idea, as it’s something that needs doing but it’s unlikely to be passed as a federal law, and they’re kind of right that it is unconstitutional.

    But this is bad timing.

    Edit: It might not be clear that I was referring to the three women who are avoiding to the article taking freedom of toplessness to the supreme court, where I think they’re unlikely to get support with the court’s current constellation. Losing the case now might make it harder to get a similar case before a more favourable constellation of the SCOTUS in the future, so it’s not very strategic in that sense.

    Then it was rightfully pointed out that the article was old, and they had already lost the case before the SCOTUS (in it’s current constellation). So indeed bad timing.

    Maybe I wasn’t clear. Or maybe there’s an unpopular opinion in there. Dunno. Cheers.

      • cabbage@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        5 days ago

        Shoot - I just read the article and saw the related links, but it didn’t occur to me that it’s completely out of date.

        Did they ever make it to the SCOTUS? I guess not?

    • Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      5 days ago

      They didn’t lose their case in front of SCOTUS. SCOTUS just decided not to hear the case so the lower court’s ruling stood in that lower jurisdiction.