[Condor51]

I knew it, I knew it. I just had to find it - it's in the senate version....

S. 1105
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007'.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS. ~~~ snip ~~
(6) Such violence substantially affects interstate commerce in many ways, including the following: (blah, blah, BULLSH*T)

Once again the US Congress does and end run around the Constitution by abusing the Commerce Clause to pass Laws they have no legal - Constitutional - authority to do so.

The 'Roberts Court' has to nip this Commerce Clause abuse in the bud. The 'Rehnquist Court' started the ball rolling by over turning a few laws (Di-Fi is STILL fuming), this SCOTUS has to continue it's oversight of these nuts passing as legislators.

(take away Commerce Clause abuse and Congress could stay home for ten months of the year)

[MrB]

These ideas, amongst others, need to be destoyed as judicial doctrine:

Commerce Clause superceding the 10th amendment.
The “incorporation doctrine” that was read into the 14th amendment.

Just these two doctrines being overturned would have a big effect on our country.