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Not. A. Single. Thing. was swept under the rug by a single judge. Every case is part of the permanent public record. We can read every pitiful complaint and every intelligently written order by incredibly patient judges explaining in careful detail why each complaint is a poor attempt at lawyering. If anything alleged in any of the complaints was significant and supported by adequate factual assertions, it would survive in the public discourse regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit. The judges told the plaintiffs "put up or shut up" and we all observed the results of that ultimatum. If the immediate dismissal was viewed as a political or cowardly act, the judges would take a significant hit to their reputation among other judges and attorneys. An order immediately dismissing a case can be appealed just the same as any other order, and judges do their best to avoid being reversed on appeal. I'll come back and apologize to you personally if a significant number of these dismissal orders get overturned on appeal because that would tell me that these judges improperly dismissed the complaints.

The cases were handled exactly the way the procedural rules require, and it's exactly the way corporations avoid lawsuits every day. A plaintiff has to state enough factual assertions in their complaint to satisfy every element of the cause of action they are asserting. Fraud, specifically, has an even higher threshold for what must be stated in a complaint in order to avoid immediate dismissal. If a plaintiff doesn't meet this basic threshold in the complaint, judges are supposed to throw out the lawsuits so judicial resources are not wasted and defendants are not subjected to the harassment of frivolous lawsuits. You seem to be criticizing judges for doing exactly what the procedural rules require them to do. However, if you are unhappy cases were dismissed so quickly, you only have the plaintiffs' attorneys or the plaintiffs themselves to blame.

That's false. The 19th Amendment says: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." There could be 27 sexes and the Constitution would still protect their right to vote.

Her point was that Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S.A. which most Americans of white European ancestry ignore. The Puerto Rican flag is not a foreign flag; and there are more than 1 million Puerto Ricans in Florida, where the Super Bowl was held.