Posted on 11/19/2017 4:45:54 AM PST by smileyface
Justice Neil Gorsuch gave the most significant public address of his tenure on the nation’s highest court Thursday when he addressed the Federalist Society’s annual dinner, recently named in honor of the last man to hold his seat: Antonin Scalia.
The newest Supreme Court justice took square aim at one of this year’s Federalist Society Convention’s main themes: the “administrative state,” the unelected mass of executive agency staff that actually creates most of the rules and regulations by which Americans live. Resistance of the administrative state’s growth and overreach is a driving force in the emergence of populist-nationalism and the Trump movement. Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon has repeatedly called the “deconstruction of the administrative state” one of the three pillars of populist-nationalism.
Gorsuch has been under fire from the left and the mainstream legal establishment for his willingness to reexamine the once-controversial twentieth century Supreme Court decisions that made the modern, massive administrative state possible. He mocked a recent article in the Harvard Law Review claiming the administrative state is “under siege” and calling him an “anti-administrativist.” “Anti-adminstrativism was conclusively rejected in the 1930s,” Gorsuch quoted the article as saying.
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Wickard....
Godspeed, Justice Gorsuch. The rise of the administrative state is largely due to Congress becoming lazy and corrupt and simply passing off their designated responsibility to (unaccountable) third parties.
Let’s get back to government as intended by the Founders. It might take a hundred years to undo the last hundred years, but steps like this are a good start.
“Wickard....”
Yep.
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“Wickard....”
Making as work this morning, are ye?
I didn’t know the name of the case, but my memory was refreshed when I looked it up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
“Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), was a United States Supreme Court decision that dramatically increased the regulatory power of the federal government. It remains as one of the most important and far-reaching cases concerning the New Deal, and set a precedent for an expansive reading of the United States Constitution’s Commerce Clause for decades to come...
“The Court decided that Filburn’s wheat-growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for animal feed on the open market, which is traded nationally (interstate), and is therefore within the scope of the Commerce Clause...”
That’s some of the convoluted pseudo-justifications made in U. S. Supreme Court history.
It wasn't a case of filling a power vacuum. It was and is a deliberate strategy by the Progressives to circumvent democracy and the Constitution.
President Trump’s appointment of Judge Gorsuch will be recorded in the history books as the pivotal event that pulled the United States of America back from the brink.
Come back in 50 years and tell me I was right ;-)
I hope Judge Gorsuch has goo, very good security. The evil of the left never sleeps.
It’s about time. Administrative “law” is terrifying.
And, THIS is why Trump is so critical to the future of the nation...the potential to appoint enough Supreme Court Justices to assure the Originalist, conservative majority for the next generation.
The wrongheaded, anti-Constitutional misinterpretation of the Commerce Clause has been greatest contributor to the rise of the bureaucracy as a rules-making body in the history of this great nation.
I look forward to a grand reassessment as a vital component of regaining the nation envisioned by the Founders.
Trump made a great SC pick. Let’s have another.
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