[Libloather]

He's out pimping his new book.

Health-Care Law Has Precedent, Retired Justice Stevens Says
“To the extent that the commerce clause is an issue in the case, it just seems to me very similar” to the medical marijuana dispute, said Stevens, who served on the court for 34 years.

[stevie_d_64]

Stevens must be smoking something funny...

[douginthearmy]

Stevens wrote the opinion that held that the Constitution allows federal regulation of homegrown marijuana as interstate commerce.

What's that Drug Warriors? The government you empowered has passed a law using your precedents against you... never would have guessed!

[wiggen]

“The 2005 marijuana ruling will be a pivotal precedent when the justices consider the health-care law. In his opinion for the court then, Stevens pointed to a constitutional provision letting Congress enact laws “necessary and proper” for carrying out powers specifically mentioned in the Constitution”
Someone who know about this stuff mind letting the rest of us know what specifically is in the constitution that needed to be carried out in relation to medical marijuana?

[Adder]

While, since 1937, the Court HAS indeed held that private use can be interstate commerce; that doesn’t mean the Constitution SAYS its true.

The ruling that started it was wrong and every ruling that relies on it is wrong.

Besides, in this case its not even “commerce”...this ruling would say the Constitution DEMANDS that you engage in commerce. Thats a bit different, I think.