[Cathryn Crawford]

Take a look at this.

[gcruse]

Commercial transactions seem to be regulatable (regulable?).
Personal interactions, see below.


The Georgia Supreme Court noted:

The individual's right to freely exercise his or her liberty is not dependent upon whether the majority believes such exercise to be moral, dishonorable, or wrong. Simply because something is beyond the pale of "majoritarian morality" does not place it beyond the scope of constitutional protection. To allow the moral indignation of a majority (or, even worse, a loud and/or radical minority) to justify criminalizing private consensual conduct would be a strike against freedoms paid for and preserved by our forefathers.

[William McKinley]

The court has opened a can of worms that it never should have.

They basically have ruled that the framers of the Constitution did not understand what was constitutional and what was not, since at the time of the enactment of the constitution, and for generations afterwards, there were sodomy laws.

If what goes on behind closed doors is protected by a constitutional right to privacy, then how can there be drug use laws, how can there be laws against prostitution, or bigamy, polygamy, bestiality, etc.?

But that was Santorum's point, wasn't it? Smart guy that Santorum.

The courts need to leave the legislating for the Legislature, and the federal government needs to leave as much of the governing to the states as possible. Only when there is a compelling national interest should the federal government be involved, at all.

[ValenB4]

OK. I looked at it.

[Scenic Sounds]

For obvious reasons, the role of the Supreme Court is this week's "issue of the week." This author clearly sees most of the important issues, including the sources and breadth of judicial power and the concerns about federalism. What's fascinating to me (after watching the public's reaction to the Court's rulings on Tuesday and Thursday of this week) is that it appears that both the right and the left seem to have joined forces in advocating (1) a vigorous, active Supreme Court and (2) an indifference to states' rights.

Thanks for the ping. ;-)