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Bad laws have allowed a lot of things....
Larry J — (archived)

and they aren't so easy to overturn as you so glibly state. For example, owning slaves was legal in much of the US for over 70 years. In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court said slavery was OK. It took the bloodiest war in our history to end that. Afterwards, Jim Crow laws were enacted in mostly Southern states (by almost exclusively Democrat politicians) that denied blacks their rights. Again, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessey v. Furgeson that these laws were allowable. It wasn't until decades later that attitudes (and Supreme Court rulings) began to change.

You may not have a problem with someone outbidding you on your own property, forcing you to sell against your will. I do. This ranks as among the very worst SC decisions in my lifetime, perhaps in US history. Not necessarily THE worst, but among them.

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