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To: Darnright
Would that the author be right that Justice Thomas’ efforts will reverse the federal power grab via the commerce clause. If the next election installs a decent conservative to replace what we now have, perhaps the nation will be steered toward the Founding Fathers’ original vision.

We're going to have to do something different than what we've been doing before that's going to happen. GWB claimed to want Supreme Court justices that subscribed to an "original intent" interpretation of the Constitution during his campaign. The he sent his Justice Department before the court to argue to uphold Wickard v Filburn in the Raisch case.

44 posted on 08/29/2011 6:53:15 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic
We're going to have to do something different than what we've been doing before that's going to happen. GWB claimed to want Supreme Court justices that subscribed to an "original intent" interpretation of the Constitution during his campaign. The he sent his Justice Department before the court to argue to uphold Wickard v Filburn in the Raisch case.

True, but they were defending the constitutional of a federal statute that bans the use of medical marijuana, even for federal purposes. Don't you actually read the Constitution? The federal right to ban medical marijuana is in there. It's right next to the federal right to abortion.

91 posted on 08/30/2011 8:23:19 PM PDT by 10thAmendmentGuy ("[Drug] crusaders cannot accept the fact that they are not God." -Thomas Sowell)
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