Bond vs. Holder (We WON one today)

SCOTUS ^ | 06/02/2014 | SCOTUS

[Repeal 16-17]

Post #20 is the thread winner.

What had the potential to be a landmark decision ended up being a small case of statutory construction. Chief Justice Roberts, ever the minimalist, read into the Chemical Warfare Treaty Act an implied exception for traditional state crimes. This allowed him, along with a majority of the Court, to avoid having to make a Constitutional ruling. At least he didn't convert the Act into a tax on chemical weapons.

[Labyrinthos]

“They hold that it is not.”

I meant to write that Scalia, Thomas, and Alito found the Act UNconstitutional under the 10th Amendment.

[1010RD]

It’s a club. The Bushes and the Clintons have a lot in common.

[Nifster]

nicely played.

[Nifster]

s’kay.... the auto fill that I forget to keep turned off sometimes makes all sorts of interesting sentences

[Paladin2]

"with three concurring opinions, by Scalia, Thomas, and Alito, with Roberts writing for the majority."

Roberts is still a wus.

[Paladin2]

Traitor Roberts remains out of control.

[Paladin2]

"I’d say we have a pattern with Roberts—and it is not a good one. "

Traitor Roberts appears to be retarded as a Constitutional Scholar/Interpreter.

[Hieronymus]

But, leaving aside that he is a traitor, is he still better than Kennedy and the leftists?

[Paladin2]

" Roberts et al., is the person who changed the law in order to side-step the 10th Amendment issue by finding that the Act simply does not apply to the type of domestic violence (as in inter-family) at the root of the dispute."

Roberts == Screen door [Submarine type].

[Paladin2]

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

[Rennes Templar]

“ENOUGH OF THESE ADD HOMONYM ATTACKS”

Your write about that!

[Hieronymus]

So we have three good justices, two traitors who sometimes do not act like idiots, and four idiots? I hate to say it, but this makes the court better than either House of Congress, or the executive branch.

[Paladin2]

"I hate to say it, but this makes the court better than either House of Congress, or the executive branch."

Good analysis. Congress is clearly well beyond the vision of the Founders. Bammy and the bureaucracy are clearly traitors all. The intellectually lazy Congress has given up their power.

[teeman8r]

Abs Sole loot lee

[teeman8r]

i wonder if holder is trying to tie the fact that we all breathe out toxic CO2 with war crimes.

[unread]

What exactly did we won..?

[Monorprise]

“A SCOTUS ruling that cites the TENTH amendment???????

Amazing.

Of course, I expect the Clown and Eric the Red to ignore it anyway.”

The wording of the title got me down as it implys congress can simply legislate away the 10th amendment at will but choose not to.

[Monorprise]

No we diden’t win one. The federal employees simply pointed out that the act the Federal injustice department charged the woman with violation did not apply to her crime.

She didn’t uses chemical weapons as defined by the act.

[wastedyears]

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