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To: lawdude
Links to all of it are here: How appealing

"JUSTICE SCALIA, with whom CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS and JUSTICE THOMAS join, dissenting.
The Court concludes that the Attorney General lacked authority to declare assisted suicide illicit under the Con- trolled Substances Act (CSA), because the CSA is con- cerned only with “illicit drug dealing and trafficking,” ante, at 23 (emphasis added). This question-begging conclusion is obscured by a flurry of arguments that dis- tort the statute and disregard settled principles of our interpretive jurisprudence. Contrary to the Court’s analysis, this case involves not one but three independently sufficient grounds for revers- ing the Ninth Circuit’s judgment... "

388 posted on 01/17/2006 9:30:49 AM PST by mrsmith
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To: mrsmith
It sounds like the libs on the court are saying congress could constitutionally outlaw assisted suicide if it specifically choose too, but the AG can't just assume that power unilaterally.
397 posted on 01/17/2006 9:33:32 AM PST by conservative physics
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