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Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg Reason Magazine 11/21/2013 What a difference eight years and a Senate majority makes. Back in 2005, Senate Democrats (including Barack Obama) were in the minority – and dead-set against a Republican plan to allow judicial nominations to proceed to an up-or-down vote based on a simple majority. The so-called nuclear […] November 21st, 2013 | Tags: "court packing", "Daisy Ad", "nuclear option", Andrew C. McCarthy, enumerated powers, filibusters, FoxNews.com, hypocrisy, Mark Levin, Sen. Carl Levin, Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. Joe Biden, Thomas Jefferson, tyranny | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Federal Judges, Founding Fathers, Glenn Beck, Politicians, Progressives, US Constitution, Video | Comments are closed
JD Patterico’s Pontifications 6/25/2013 Here is the ruling. This proves how racist Republicans are, because they don’t want to impose 50 year old standards on States, and some counties, based on actions that took place 50 years ago. Gasp! Heaven forbid current standards should address current problems, and apply to States equally. The Dems were […] June 25th, 2013 | Tags: "equal sovereignty" principle, Attorney General Eric Holder, enumerated powers, Federalism, Justice Ruth Ginsburg, Rep. John Lewis, Shelby County v. Holder, Voting Rights Act | Category: 15th Amendment, Congress, Department of Justice, Elections, SCOTUS, US Constitution | Comments are closed
The Right Scoop 4/9/2013 Mark Levin says that on Thursday the Senate intends to vote to change the 2nd amendment without any pretense of going through the amendment process, on a bill that hasn’t even been written yet. He says that this isn’t republicanism, it’s democratic tyranny. And the senators arguing to filibuster are being […] April 10th, 2013 | Tags: background checks, Bill of Rights, Constitutional Convention, enumerated powers, Federalism, GOP filibuster, gun control, Mark Levin, Sen. Harry Reid, Sen. Joe Manchin, Sen. Pat Toomey, Separation of Powers, tyranny | Category: 2nd Amendment, Congress, Founding Fathers, legislation, Media accountability, Politicians, Progressives, States | Comments are closed
How conservative legal philosophy helped create the health care ruling We must beware the dangerous temptation to read our own values into the Constitution and to assume that anything we think good is in there somewhere and anything we think is bad is forbidden. Sheldon Richman Reason Magazine 7/8/2012 Amid all of Chief […] July 8th, 2012 | Tags: American Medical Association, Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, Chief Justice John Roberts, Commerce Clause, conservatives, enumerated powers, Federalism, individual mandate, jurisprudence, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia, NFIB v. Sebelius, nullification, Robert Bork | Category: Congress, Fascism, federal mandates, Health Care, Medicine, Politicians, SCOTUS, Taxes, US Constitution | Comments are closed
JHoward Protein Wisdom 12/6/2011 From Taki’s magazine: What if the whole purpose of the Constitution was to limit the government? What if Congress’s enumerated powers in the Constitution no longer limited Congress, but were actually used as justification to extend Congress’s authority over every realm of human life? What if the president, meant to be […] December 7th, 2011 | Tags: centralized government, double jeopardy, Eminent Domain, enumerated powers, freedom, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Venn Diagram | Category: Barack Obama, civil liberties, Congress, Founding Fathers, law enforcement, Military, US Constitution | Comments are closed
“[T]here is no Supreme Court decision squarely on point dictating the result that the individual mandate is within the commerce power of Congress…” ~Judge Stanley Marcus Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals David Catron The American Spectator 8/23/2011 One reason the supporters of Obamacare were initially overconfident about its supposed invulnerability to […] August 23rd, 2011 | Tags: enumerated powers, individual mandate | Category: 10th Amendment, Barack Obama, Congress, Health Care, insurance, SCOTUS, US Constitution | Comments are closed
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