[Jacquerie]

Wickard v Filburn was constitutional nonsense. It stands to this day.

Prior to W v. F, associate Justice of the Supreme Court James McReynolds remarked in 1935 that FDR was “Nero at his worst. As for the Constitution, it does not seem too much to say that it is gone.”

[Ken H]

Here are three brilliant opinions by Justice Clarence Thomas on the original understanding of the Commerce Clause, and why Wickard is in error:

Raich v Gonzales, 2005:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZD1.html

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United States v. Lopez, 1995:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1260.ZC1.html

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United States v. Morrison, 2000:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-5.ZC.html

[Twotone]

I’ve been reading “The Forgotten Man” by Amity Shlaes. The absolutely outrageous overreaches by Roosevelt are being mirrored by the Obama administration. I could just cry...