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To: jaredt112; All
Recent Supreme Court opinions can be found at:

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05slipopinion.html

This particular one can be found at:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/17jan20061050/www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/04-623.pdf

If the above link is temporary, go to the first link and click on Gonzales v. Oregon.

The opinion of the majority is summarized in the syllabus (first 5 pages)
Justice Scalia's dissent starts on page 34
Justice Thomas' dissent starts on page 59
253 posted on 01/17/2006 8:42:32 AM PST by mwilli20 (temporarily tagged out...)
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To: mwilli20; freepatriot32

Just as someone had told me, Thomas' dissent seems solely to point out the hypocrisy of the majority in relation to Raich.

Read it, it is quite funny how he's almost pointing out their stupidity.

LOL


280 posted on 01/17/2006 8:57:00 AM PST by mosquitobite (As the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.)
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To: mwilli20
Recent Supreme Court opinions can be found at:

Thanks, I checked earlier, but it must have just been posted.

Skimming over it I see the following:

Opinion: Ashcroft was an opponent of assisted suicide, so when he became AG he arbitrarily, and without consulting others he was supposed to (including the state), and without regard to the state's ability to regulate medicine within its borders, interpreted the rule to exclude assisted suicide as a medical action. His interpretation was out of the bounds of his authority under that law.

Dissent: We should always defer to the decisions of federal officials, and goes into playing with dictionary definitions of "medicine" and "prescription," trying to redefine "prescription."

344 posted on 01/17/2006 9:17:39 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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