I wonder if the Kelo case got the ball rolling for Obama and his people to start setting up low income and black housing developments near the more affluent areas of American cities. Not to mention migrant settlements as well.
Include Massachusetts v USEPA in that list as well. In that case SCOTUS ruled that carbon dioxide was a “pollutant” under the Clean Air Act.
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So much evil has flowed from Wickard , but I’d also add Everson v Board of Education
Just another among many truly racist laws along the Democrat/Communist line of thinking: "Throw 'em a midnight basketball and they'll stop committing felonies"
Excellent list, I can’t disagree with any of these. I hope that they can be righted.
Any list like this is not complete without the 1939 US V Miller decision.
“if a pregnant illegal alien walks five feet over the border and then gives birth, that child is a U.S. citizen for life”
This means that if things keep going the way they are and that kid decides to flee back to the homeland, he will be pursued by the IRS and FATCA. Poetic justice. :-)
That’s a good list. But there are several more rulings not made which should have been made a long time ago wrt gun rights.
The 2nd amendment contains the right both to keep and to bear arms. Bear means carry.
Ergo a state should be required to allow open carry or be shall issue for concealed carry. States that are may issue for concealed carry effectively mean they will not issue a concealed carry license unless you are politically connected or can afford to pay a hefty bribe. So if you cannot carry openly or concealed, you have effectively been denied your right to bear arms.
Also, Heller said guns in common use could not be banned. Since then several states have banned guns and magazines which are in common use. All such bans need to be struck down - as do almost all of California’s gun laws. For example California requires all new guns to be able to microstamp the bullet and the shell casing. No such technology exists. No such technology is even feasible. This is a slow motion gun ban by any other name. Strike it down.
Overturn Kelo and restore private property rights.
Good list add one Glenshaw Glass. Free the slaves no direct taxation of wages without apportionment. as stated in the cnstitution. Income as stated needs source and a derivative. wages are only a source cannot be both.
I like Revolver but their writer gives credit to the crime of the century that has cast all Americans into a Marxist Color Revolution.
If Revolver had wanted to avoid a sidetrack to a more important issue, it should read:
It's not nitpicking, it's important that writers avoid feeding credibility to the coup plotters by referring to their installed puppet as "President."
Marriage is a state issue and that is where it should be sent.
Came just to make sure they didn’t miss Wickard vs Filburn
Yes, and that monumental mistake can/should be corrected without taking 50 years.
There are many decisions which turn out to be unwise but the author acts like the Supreme Court has some no-bag-limit hunting license to overrule previous decisions. It doesn’t. It is limited to cases brought before the court. So rather than acting as though the Supremes can order up a case, you need to find people or organizations which can challenge those cases and has power and standing to drag them all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Good list!
However, I would add “...Reynolds_v._Sims...”.
It’s done enormous damage to states with large urban centers. Evert Dirkson who I am sure all have forgotten warned that it would damage such states. It would “render rural residents of a state powerless in their state governments”. It clearly did! It has clearly warped the politics of those states; look at California, New York & Illinois. The inability of the rest of the state to check the excesses of the urban centers has made the urban centers almost ungovernable. We’ve seen it played out time and time again. The “Summer of Fun” during the run up to the 2020 election was the inevitable logical conclusion!
I think the state senate ought to represent counties. One state senator per county. It’s the same constitutional principle as to why we have a Federal Senate. It took creative lawyering to forget that and take it out!
Those who want Kelo overturned want a single solution imposed by the federal government. No thank you.
Wick are and Wong Kim Ark are the causes of more harm to this country than any other cases in history.
I would also like to see part of US v Miller struck down - the part which requires someone to demonstrate the utility of a weapon to the militia in order to invalidate the (blatantly unconstitutional) NFA. **ANY** weapon is of use to the militia, as demonstrated by the utility of one-shot Liberatir pistols, home made guns, knives explosives, and a myriad of other weapons against the Germans in WW2. The second amendment places no limitations on term “arms.”