Posted on 10/15/2019 5:50:57 AM PDT by karpov
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Warren offers a carefully thought-out agenda of open contempt for legal and constitutional boundaries. It’s not that she, a former Harvard Law professor, doesn’t know that they exist; it’s that she doesn’t care.
Her broad approach is if she doesn’t like something about America, she’ll act as president to ban it or curtail it, whether she has the legal or constitutional authority or not. This isn’t a trait personal to her. Instead, it is inherent to progressive government, which from its beginnings in the early 20th century strained against constitutional limits it considered antiquated and unnecessary.
One of Warren’s signature domestic proposals is her wealth tax. Without dwelling on the complex legal arguments, her plan is constitutionally dubious, at best, and would instantly end up in the Supreme Court if it ever passed.
Someone scrupulously committed to the Constitution would want to steer clear on this basis alone, but “constitutionally or legally suspect” is the unifying thread of much of the Warren agenda.
As David French points out, her proposed executive order prohibiting fracking obviously runs afoul of a 2005 federal law protecting it from federal regulation. She is promising to do something illegal, pure and simple.
And on it goes. She says she would act unilaterally to expand background checks for gun purchases, circumventing Congress. She wants to tax lobbying, an activity protected under the First Amendment, in yet another constitutionally fraught initiative. She wants to break up Big Tech, although it’s not clear under what authority.
Tellingly, almost no one on her side says, “I appreciate what you’re getting at Liz, but you can’t do that.”
To their credit, a couple of CNN panelists pressed her in July on the constitutional basis of her wealth tax, and she just waved them off.
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Isn't this guy head gang bang journalist at the National Review? - a disgusting publication since the early mid ninities.
Like you need a backstabber like this guy to tell you Senator Warren is a disaster.
One of Warren’s signature domestic proposals is her wealth tax. Without dwelling on the complex legal arguments, her plan is constitutionally dubious, at best
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It would clearly be a tax with the punitive purpose of confiscating money from a particular segment of people. Punishment disguised as a tax.
self-declared “Native American Indian” Warren
was TAUGHT by the MSM, the Mass. electorate,
and HARVARD LAW school that she not only can lie,
but will be rewarded by it.
FOR decades, she has been rewarded for lying,
so why is anyone surprised?
lowry can’t resist any opportunity to dish crap on President Trump.
she’ll act as president to ban it or curtail it, whether she has the legal or constitutional authority or not.
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Why not?
After the ineligible Kenyan/British subject from Indonesia proved that NO ONE would stand for the Constitution, anything goes.
If Warren tries the same thing, she may find that being Cherokee doesn't count for as much as being black.
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