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joeblowe1 year, 5 months ago

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Sorry. This court has no standing in the matter. The U.S. constitution gives CONGRESS the job of "coining" money and regulating the value thereof. Since the coining (or, presumably, printing) of money is a CONSTITUTIONAL matter, any law that seeks to undermine or modify that authority short of a Constitutional Amendment is ... unconstitutional. If CONGRESS decides that the current form of the money is unacceptable, then THEY have the authority to change it - NOT the courts. Since the A.D.A. and others acts designed to accommodate the crippled do NOT specifically mention money, we must presume that they do NOT apply to the currency. Anyway, that's my take.

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  aceofspades11 year, 5 months ago
  
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  WoW I nominate joeblowe as the next Supreme Court Justice! - a true constitutional scholar - oh wait a minute you don't have to know the constitution to be a justice - you can bend it anyway you want
  
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    LeftTurn1 year, 5 months ago
    
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    They can, and do pretty much what they want these days. I assume that they ruled to have it go to DOJ to further discuss if the current currency is indeed unconstitutional to the blind, I doubt anything will come of it.
    Or you could just carry all 1's and/or have a check card, which most all places except anyway. And you could fold larger bills a certain way from a bank teller if you need cash. You could cut a small portion of the corner at 45 degree angle or use a hole punch. I would think some perforated lines to denote amount, a large embossed number or heck, just make them different fruit smells.
    
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  BB641 year, 5 months ago
  
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  Joe, my firm works with some of the controllers for the US Mint and this is truly a concern because of activist judges. However, remember, the ADA was the same bunch of morons who some how managed to get the Braille on the drive through cash machines. Banks found it was cheaper to rebuild the keyboards then try to fight this in the courts.
  
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