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To: tacticalogic
tacticalogic quotes Justice Thomas

"-- I write separately only to express my view that the very notion of a 'substantial effects' test under the Commerce Clause is inconsistent with the original understanding --".

Typically, our Communitarian commerce clause FReekers drag out the pitiful old 'FAA bit', as if anyone contests the 'police powers' of Congress to reasonably regulate air traffic among the several States.

Bizarre tactic.

47 posted on 01/15/2007 6:00:40 PM PST by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia <)
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To: tpaine
Bizarre tactic.

It the "substantial effects" effect. "If we can't regulate everything, then we can't regulate anything."

48 posted on 01/15/2007 6:05:00 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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