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Two SCOTUS cases are being bandied about as weak support for Deem and Pass:Clinton v. City of New York (1998)Field v. Clark (1892) Neither deal directly with the question of "Deem and Pass", but rather with Enrolled Bills that were not exactly the same when passed in both houses. In the 1892 case Field v. Clark :...in regard to certain matters, the constitution expressly requires that they shall be entered on the journal. To what extent the validity of legislative action may be affected by the failure to have those matters entered on the journal we need not inquire. No...

Welcome to DeemocracyIf you’re sick of talking about health care, you’d better move to Tahiti now.  On Thursday, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine whether condoms should be required on all pornographic film shoots within the Golden State. California has run out of money, but it hasn’t yet run out of things to regulate. For a government regulatory hearing, the testimony was livelier than usual. The porn star Madelyne Hernandez recalled an especially grueling scene in which she had been obliged to have sex with 75 men. The bureaucrats nodded...