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Supreme Court says program that takes raisins from farmers is unconstitutional
AP ^
| June 22, 2015 — 9:30am
| AP
Posted on 06/22/2015 7:46:00 AM PDT by monkeyshine
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court says a program that lets the government take raisins away from farmers to help reduce supply and boost market prices is unconstitutional.
The justice said Monday that forcing raisin growers to give up part of their annual crop without full payment is an illegal confiscation of private property.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; communism; confiscation; economics; eminentdomainabuse; govttheft; pricecontrols; property; propertyrights; raisins; scotus; scotusraisins; theft; usda
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To: bgill
“Must be like those spaghetti farmers.”
An easy mistake. I’m pretty sure that’s the dental floss ranch.
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posted on
06/22/2015 11:44:15 AM PDT
by
beelzepug
(liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
To: monkeyshine
SCOTUS got one right.... wow
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:08:52 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: monkeyshine
Really? The Supremes actually know what’s in the constitution? Wouldn’t have known it by some of their previous rulings.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:10:12 PM PDT
by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: Little Ray
being forced into a cooperative sounds like a contradiction in terms
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:12:45 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Cboldt
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:16:33 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Boogieman
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:16:46 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: GeronL
Yeah, I meant "good law" in the legal/technical sense, in that a court can still cite it as binding, and the appellate courts will agree.
Wickard didn't come up at all in this case. The raisin law challenge before SCOTUS was purely on the legal definition of a "taking."
If more money had been at stake (the total value here is pretty small, the number of farmers affected is also pretty small), the case would have gone the other way. Sotomayer's dissent shows the way. It isn't "out in left field" moonbattery.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:43:52 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: monkeyshine
This Government Scheme (stealing raisins) by the DoA (also of Bundy Ranch Fame) sounds much like this one:
"The general scheme of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 as related to wheat is to control the volume moving in interstate and foreign commerce in order to avoid surpluses and shortages and the consequent abnormally low or high wheat prices and obstructions to commerce. [n5] Within prescribed limits and by prescribed standards, the Secretary of Agriculture is directed to ascertain and proclaim each year a national acreage allotment for the next crop of wheat, which is then apportioned to the states and their counties, and is eventually broken up into allotments for individual farms. [n6] Loans and payments to wheat farmers are authorized in stated circumstances. [n7] "
Maybe there is hope to overturn Wickard v. Filburn
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:44:05 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: Bon of Babble
Between Clinton and Bush, which will nominate a conservative justice?
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:50:40 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Live off the fat of anyone who is stupid enough to work. It's the American Way.)
To: monkeyshine
The Double-wide Latrina was against all.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:52:09 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: Don Corleone
Is this a Rasinist decision? Depends. Are the raisins in question golden?
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:53:37 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Live off the fat of anyone who is stupid enough to work. It's the American Way.)
To: MrB
Transtheft from tax-slaves.
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posted on
06/22/2015 12:54:44 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: Foolsgold
"how does the BLM exist?"
Thanks to your Representatives in Congress.
Write a stern letter to the Speaker......
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posted on
06/22/2015 1:00:56 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: BipolarBob
Any reparations to the generations of farmers that were victims to this governmental theft? We won't be able to cure this discrimination overnight.
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posted on
06/22/2015 1:04:09 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: Albion Wilde
Are we talking about white raisins or black raisins here? "I'll drink to that", said Teresa.
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posted on
06/22/2015 1:08:00 PM PDT
by
Go Gordon
(Barack McGreevey Obama)
To: MrB
I thought she was supposed to be wise.
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posted on
06/22/2015 1:18:59 PM PDT
by
MNDude
(God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
To: 2001convSVT
Great decision, yet Raisins are apparently more important to at least 5 of these court members than unborn children or Christian values .
To: MNDude
It is a lingering typo. The correct word is “wide”.
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posted on
06/22/2015 1:30:36 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: monkeyshine
Justice Sotomayor filed a solo dissent, in which she sided entirely with the USDA. The government may condition the ability to offer goods in the market on the giving-up of certain property interests without effecting a per se taking, Sotomayor asserted
To: riverdawg
" The Court reaches a contrary conclusion only by expanding our per se takings doctrine in a manner that is as unwarranted as it is vague. I respectfully dissent. "
- The Wide Latrina
I'd suggest that the Court's definition of takings could use a broad extension.
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posted on
06/22/2015 1:41:43 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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