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Lyrics:
Big legs dangle from a helicopter hole
Big chug rhythm it's gotta be now ho!
Brown, mean and young
Dumb and full of ---
What can you use a marine for
This is a ------- ass machine gun war
With your boots on the ground
Boots on the ground
Boots on the ground
Boots on the ground
We trim your hedges, we fight your wars
Wait in the trenches, and we ---- til we're sore
Boots on the ground
Boots on the ground
Born shiny bullets in an army of ants
Blow that horn, we sleep in our pants
Big -------, big -------
Well we holler and we burn down cities
Boots on the ground
Boots on the ground
Shootin up the town
Stayin in the hole until Jimmy Hoffa is found
With my boots on the ground
Well something goes tink when the cartridge is spent
Where do you think all your cartilage went
Boots on the ground
Boots on the ground
Now who the hell are these federal ------?
Hiding in the senate like a bloated ass tick
Air conditioned --------- loafers
Sittin in a room full of army posters
A coal to a diamond, a vote into law
They Campaign up all the blood they can draw
Mold your world, a soldier's just clay
How much does every soldier weigh?
Cut you off at the ankles and they throw that away
Boots on the ground
It's cold and hot, as Satan's .hoof
Spinning on the world I'm hiding on a roof
I kill a brown man I never ass knew
Choked on spit and then he turned blue
He spattered black blood, he rolled fin out
He died right here I got the pearl from his snout
A puff of gray smoke from the tongue of a cloud
He rotted in the sand and all that they found was his
boots on the ground, boots on the ground, boots on the ground
All that they found was his boots on the ground, boots on the ground
More: The legal hook is the Roberts court's own "history and tradition" test, introduced in the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe. Under that framework, government powers must be grounded in founding-era practice. And the founding era, Kennedy noted, had no national draft, only local militias designed for community defense.
Kennedy acknowledged the current legal landscape cuts against him.
"The question is simple: Is the draft itself constitutional? Under Supreme Court precedent, the answer is yes," wrote Kennedy. "At the same time, the Roberts court has given significantly less weight to precedent than previous courts."
When Secretary of War James Monroe proposed national conscription during the War of 1812, Rep. Daniel Webster called it "not warranted by any provision of the Constitution." Chief Justice Roger Taney later wrote an unpublished opinion agreeing, but no case ever reached the Supreme Court.
"The historical record simply does not support current precedent. Rather, it points to the same conclusion that held for almost the first hundred years of the nation"that the federal government may raise an army, but it may not force anyone to serve in it. And while there is no active draft now, perhaps the transition to automatic registration will inspire some young person to bring the legal challenge that this moment begs," he concluded.