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Federal Judge Rules Congress Can Regulate "Mental Activity" Under Commerce Clause
The American Spectator ^
| February 22, 2011
| Philip Klein
Posted on 02/23/2011 8:10:37 AM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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Congress can regulate "Mental activity" under the interstate commerce clause? That's a new one.
To: ConjunctionJunction
“Congress can regulate “Mental activity” under the interstate commerce clause? That’s a new one. “
Giving new meaning to the “Thought Police”?
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:12:22 AM PST
by
vanilla swirl
(We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
To: ConjunctionJunction
If they tax it no democrat would have to pay.
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:12:28 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 764 of our national holiday from reality. - It's almost 3 AM)
To: ConjunctionJunction
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:13:09 AM PST
by
mnehring
To: null and void
Which is why the democrats have exemptions for their own? No mental activity to speak of.
Ugh.
This is a horrible, horrible ruling.
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:13:46 AM PST
by
BenKenobi
(Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
To: ConjunctionJunction
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:16:07 AM PST
by
tiredoflaundry
(I will not be silenced. Winners do not compromise!)
To: ConjunctionJunction
It must be so. How else to justify the thought police?
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:17:10 AM PST
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: mnehring
do i buy ins? no because i have va but i my wife and stepdaughter have it, we pay for it because wechoose to, it is smart to have ins. but no one should be forced to buy anything esp. by fedzilla!
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:20:47 AM PST
by
Grunthor
(Started the HCG diet yesterday. Down 4 lbs today.)
To: ConjunctionJunction
Someone PLEASE tell me the original article came from “The ONION” or John Siemens or one of the other FR Satire favorites!
Ping John Siemens
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:20:50 AM PST
by
gwilhelm56
(Egypt 2011 = Iran 1979)
To: ConjunctionJunction
It’s a twisted decision, to say the least. A lack of commercial activity is NOT commercial activity, any more than a lack of criminal activity IS criminal activity.
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:21:11 AM PST
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: swain_forkbeard
To: vanilla swirl
Giving new meaning to the “Thought Police”?Nah. Just the realization of our worst nightmares. Nature imitating art.
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:21:45 AM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(Every knife in my back pushes me forward.)
To: BenKenobi
These people and their pretzel logic. Is the Commerce Clause supreme now? Does it override everything in the Constitution and BOR? Does the govt now have the right to compulsory economic activity down to the most basic needs, completely overriding the 9th and 10th amendments? Idiocy.
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:22:45 AM PST
by
Free Vulcan
(Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
To: gwilhelm56
To: ConjunctionJunction
Then ... Wisconsin is the LEAST of our PROBLEMS!!
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:24:43 AM PST
by
gwilhelm56
(Egypt 2011 = Iran 1979)
To: null and void
In this day and age doesn't this amount to a Bill of Attainder directed against Conservatives?
Article I, Section 10 provides protection.
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:24:49 AM PST
by
Aevery_Freeman
(It's not the *Prince of Fools* but rather the *fools* that are the problem)
To: ConjunctionJunction
I wonder if that Judge can figure out what I’m thinking, right now...
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:26:39 AM PST
by
Noamie
To: Noamie
Hope you have your tin-foil hat on!
;)
To: Free Vulcan
Wait until the First Wookie realizes that she can control the “mental activity” of the decision to Supersize!
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:29:33 AM PST
by
Aevery_Freeman
(It's not the *Prince of Fools* but rather the *fools* that are the problem)
To: Noamie
“I wonder if that Judge can figure out what I’m thinking, right now...”
You better stop it now, or they will send the ‘Mental Health Police’ after you.
They know where you live. They can track your ‘thoughts’!
Muaaaaa!
:>)
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posted on
02/23/2011 8:29:59 AM PST
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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