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To: al_c
To be honest, I am not mad at Chief Justice Roberts. I am disappointed that he let himself get intimidated.

I have said for month that we need to get the Senate back, besides keeping the House, and give that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave eviction notice on November 6 for January 20, 20, 2013

70 posted on 06/29/2012 1:53:24 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin
To be honest, I am not mad at Chief Justice Roberts. I am disappointed that he let himself get intimidated.

But did he get intimidated, or was he the intimidator?

A Marbury for our time

From the article ... the Chief Justice established some important, conservative doctrinal beachheads. He reaffirmed or established (depending on your perspective) some potentially important limits on Congress’s powers under the Commerce Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause, and the General Welfare Clause. Congress cannot use the Commerce Clause to regulate commerce in a manner that compels people into commerce; it can only regulate existing commerce. Further, such regulation, even if “necessary,” can never be “proper,” no matter its importance to the proper functioning of a broader regulatory scheme. And the General Welfare Clause does not permit Congress to use the states’ dependence on an existing conditional spending program as a means to forcing them to accept significant, qualitative changes to that program. Rather, states must be given the choice to accept or deny the funds associated only with the program’s modifications—at least when the program is similar in size to Medicaid.

114 posted on 07/01/2012 3:32:32 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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