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  • WSJ: Kennedy on Roberts - The Supreme Court nominee is a threat to Medicare. /sarcasm

    07/25/2005 5:54:44 AM PDT · by OESY · 26 replies · 1,296+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | July 25, 2005 | Editorial
    In his two years on the appeals bench, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts has authored about 40 opinions, but it's a one-and-a-half page dissent that has Ted Kennedy fulminating. The Senator from Massachusetts is outraged about a Commerce Clause case called Rancho Viejo v. Norton, which, in the Kennedy legal interpretation, threatens "Social Security, Medicare, the minimum wage" and the environment. Is that all? In Rancho Viejo, a real-estate company challenged the Interior Department's application of the Endangered Species Act to halt a project that might disturb an endangered species known as the arroyo Southwestern toad, whose picture we publish...