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To: Will88

“A federal court finds a situation where state law should not be trumped by federal law? “

Actually, it isn’t that good a decision. Wish it were. The Court enforced an existing federal law barring Obama from spending money to prosecute medical MJ cases. So the court was just enforcing a federal law. Not vindicating states rights.

It would have been a better decision had it been based on the commerce clause. But the Supreme Court ruled against that approach a while back (one of Justice Thomas’s few bad decisions).


13 posted on 08/16/2016 9:47:34 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker
It would have been a better decision had it been based on the commerce clause. But the Supreme Court ruled against that approach a while back (one of Justice Thomas’s few bad decisions).

I think you mean Justice Scalia.

Justice Thomas wrote a scathing dissent against the majority in Raich.

14 posted on 08/16/2016 9:57:08 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: ModelBreaker; Will88

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So the court was just enforcing a federal law. Not vindicating states rights.
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Yeah, let’s not go *nuts* here now. That’s just crazy talk!

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It would have been a better decision had it been based on the commerce clause. But the Supreme Court ruled against that approach a while back.
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Commerce? How ‘bout the 9th/10th instead?

Someone might start to say, “Regulate in 2nd (vs. infringed) = Regulate elsewhere? Hey, that can’t be the *same*”,

As if Fedzilla has ANY authority within CA to begin....for any number of ‘issues’. Ahhhh, they went down THAT path and the whole house-of-cards could have begun falling down.


27 posted on 08/17/2016 9:51:24 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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