At 10:19 PM 6/23/2005, you wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Jay Listo wrote:
Well, once the Supreme Court starts coming up with stuff like this, you know you've been Bush-whacked.
Maybe you should take another look at who voted how. The Bushies dissented on this opinion. Go figure.
Not surprising at all. The Bush camp's court agenda is spearheaded by members of the Federalist Society which wants to roll back many of the SC's decisions of the early-mid 20th century (esp. the Social Security Act and the expansion of the Commerce Clause during FDR's reign).
The conservative justices happen to be correct about that. If there is a need for expansion of federal power, the solution is to pass an amendment, not to read into the commerce and general welfare clauses what was never there. If the judiciary keeps supporting both good and bad laws on the basis of Congress's interstate commerce power, eventually something is going to break. Either we're going to have a civil war or the judiciary is going to have to start contradicting its earlier opinions. We the people should start a campaign to pass amendments in these various areas so that the Supreme Court can revise its earlier opinions without placing laws like the Civil Rights Act completely in jeopardy. These are a few areas which amendments could target: healthcare limiting complexity of the tax code if not repealing the 16th A. NBC weaps (chems def'd by LD50 and quantity for gases and liquids) reiterating the 2nd amendment with the exception of any banned NBC regulation of airspace up to a certain altitude acknowledgment that the U.S. has no authority over outer space civil rights - discrimination clarifying property rights (in light of Kelo) If we don't need or can't agree on amendments in those areas, respective legislation must be nullified. The Kelo decision is simply incorrect, so an amendment correcting it is virtually mandatory. We have no right to healthcare or welfare, and laws granting either are invalid. We have a right to make, buy and sell any weapons we wish, and laws stating otherwise are invalid. We have a right not to be discriminated against by the government, and by purely public institutions, and at polls. We have no right to equal treatment by private corporations or private individuals. We have a right to use the EM spectrum as we wish, and we have a right to possess whatever substances we want. I don't like some of those facts, but they are facts. In order to change them, there is no alternative except to pass constitutional amendments. Otherwise, the government will continue on the path from incoherence to collapse.