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Susan Linehan's avatar

I was a little surprised when researching the meaning of adjacent to find that in its most common use it DOES require some sort of nexus. But there is absolutely no reason why this nexus has to be connection by a visible surface. It seems clear that wetlands are adjacent to bodies of water via ground water--that's why they are wet. The "puddle" analogy ignores the source of the water utterly.

Under his definition of a "surface connection" a house 5 blocks from a highway would be "adjacent" to it if there were a visible path from the road to the house.

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Gazeboist's avatar

I’ve felt for a while that there’s a very plausible equal protection argument against a males-only draft. Given the end of officially sanctioned sex discrimination during the Obama years, I wonder how a case challenging the Military Selective Service Act on equal protection grounds would go, and what it would look like.

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