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To: 10thAmendmentGuy
By the way, people that support Scalia's concurrence in Raich should be honest with themselves and admit that they are not conservatives.

You are right on target.

The case involved a woman using marijuana grown in her home for medical purposes. Anyone who supports federal prosecution of such an act is not a conservative, nor do they understand or support liberty. I don't what's more jaw dropping; that the 'enlightened' progressives on the court supported the government's position, or that Scalia agreed with them.

117 posted on 08/30/2011 9:57:29 PM PDT by GunRunner (***Not associated with any criminal actions by the ATF***)
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To: GunRunner

It just provides further proof that Scalia substitutes his moral judgments in place of bedrock constitutional principles.


119 posted on 08/30/2011 10:02:37 PM PDT by 10thAmendmentGuy ("[Drug] crusaders cannot accept the fact that they are not God." -Thomas Sowell)
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To: GunRunner

I’m sure the court liberals were sympathetic to her plight but their leftist agenda requires them to support a perverted and vastly expanded notion of interstate commerce. If Raich had prevailed, that could have led to the Court striking down the entire Controlled Substances Act, which would have horrified liberals and so-called conservatives alike.


120 posted on 08/30/2011 10:07:32 PM PDT by 10thAmendmentGuy ("[Drug] crusaders cannot accept the fact that they are not God." -Thomas Sowell)
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