# Pitting UltraVires

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ultravires/821734>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 22, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ultravires/821734 "2018-09-22T16:05:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ultravires/821734/104 "2018-11-26T02:18:13Z")

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> [@Mississippi Senator wants "public hanging" ??](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-senator-wants-public-hanging/824398/78):
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> Nobody, before this comment, has equated the term “public hanging” with extrajudicial lynchings. The term public hanging has always and forever heretofore meant the legal method of execution conducted in most states in the 19th century.

Just doing his thing. Making shit up and not backing down an inch.

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