Posted on 09/29/2011 2:07:32 PM PDT by Red Steel
Ninety-one-year-old retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens told Bloomberg News that he thinks President Obama's health care law will pass constitutional muster.
He referenced a 2005 Supreme Court decision that held the federal government could outlaw state-sanctioned medical marijuana even if the substance didn't cross state lines, which was based on a broad interpretation of the commerce clause.
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If they can control this based on the commerce clause the entire constitution can officially be used as a## wipe because there is NOTHINg that can’t be mandated based on this interpretation.
There will be nothing outside the power of the government over the governed, who will be more accurately referred to as slaves.
Mark
The rats had not brought up this pretty recent 2005 SC decision before. I wonder why? Does it have anything to do w/ the fact that it is a pretty flimsy argument at best, and they thought they had better arguments before, but now they are pathetically desperate to cling on to anything to make this unconstitutional mandate constitutional!
Liberals and progressives “interpreting” the Commerce Clause and the General Welfare Clause of the Constitution have done more damage to this nation than many care to admit.
Getting closer to the reset button...
Article 1, Section 9 :
“No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.”
Madison:
“A very material object of this power was the relief of the States which import and export through other States, from the improper contributions levied on them by the latter. Were these at liberty to regulate the trade between State and State, it must be foreseen that ways would be found out to load the articles of import and export, during the passage through their jurisdiction, with duties which would fall on the makers of the latter and the consumers of the former. We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice would be introduced by future contrivances; and both by that and a common knowledge of human affairs, that it would nourish unceasing animosities, and not improbably terminate in serious interruptions of the public tranquility.”
What the Founders clearly meant was that States with ports that imported goods and then shipped them to land locked States could not impose massive taxes merely because some States had no access to the sea.
Simple. Commerce Clause meant free trade between States.
Today, Constitution means 180 degree opposite of what was originally written
I'd rather all the federal courts limit themselves to working only 3 months of each year.
Old - dead - senile - whatever.
J.P. Stevens is almost certainly correct. The SC will foist Obamadeath on us and claim it’s all “constitutional.”
You’re right, though it could be argued that they crossed that bridge awhile ago.
Stevens is a senile old coot, and was an idiot when young too.
If the gov’t can force you to buy life insurance they can force you to do anything.
or even health insurace
Which means someone is scared.
Thanks, Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., what would we ever have done without you?
Obama insulted the Justices at the State of the Union. The conservative Justices will throw it out. Kennedy, well who knows. However, he sides with the conservatives a lot. This is being brought by 26 states, so they will pay more attention.
How do I not give up?
Really... how do I?
[I’m pretty sure John Paul Stevens has been dead for quite some time. . .]
He just smells like he’s been “dead for quite some time.”
Thanks. I appreciate the information.
There’s still reason to be nervous.
Kennedy could go the wrong way.
If they uphold the health care law, they are screwing the USA and all it’s Citizens.
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