Posted on 02/20/2015 8:27:40 AM PST by reaganaut1
Kentucky’s junior senator, Rand Paul, gave a provocative talk at the Heritage Foundation on January 13, in which he discussed the role of the judiciary. During that talk, he said something that most American lawyers have been conditioned to think of as heresy: he said that the Supreme Court’s 1905 decision in Lochner v. New York was right.
Saying anything good about Lochner among the vast majority of American lawyers and judges is like telling a group of college history professors that Calvin Coolidge was a great president. Senator Paul has the courage to say controversial things and doesn’t fear going against the grain.
Lochner is one of the cases that law students are most likely to remember from Constitutional Law because the decision is almost invariably denounced as a horrible, embarrassing blunder – nearly as bad as Dred Scott. Senator Paul, however disagrees and so do I.
The facts of the case are as follows.
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Rant Paul goes full @ tiller.
He’s right.
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You’re right. Paul is right too, from what I can see here.
[ Saying anything good about Lochner among the vast majority of American lawyers and judges is like telling a group of college history professors that Calvin Coolidge was a great president. ]
Coolidge WAS a GREAT President, Woodrow Wilson was a TYRANT!
How about laws that said illegal immigrant children could not go to public schools or that illegal immigrants were not entitled to free healthcare or social welfare benefits.
Seems like if the law passed by majority prevents the advancement of the social welfare state then there is no “right of a majority to embody their opinions in law.”
Strike one.. Strike two.. Hey, on this pitch Paul managed to hit a double!
Every now and then they get one right. Luckily the more active son does a better job than his father.
Calvin Coolidge was a great President. In fact he was one of Reagan’s favorites.
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