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Thomas Dissents: It’s All Unconstitutional
http://www.redstate.com/ ^ | June 29 2012 | by Daniel Horowitz

Posted on 06/29/2012 4:55:10 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45

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To: Para-Ord.45

One of the last sane men standing. May God bless him.


21 posted on 06/29/2012 6:06:34 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Bookmark.


22 posted on 06/29/2012 6:08:10 PM PDT by NavVet ("You Lie!")
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To: Para-Ord.45

Nothing short of a revolution will resolve this.


23 posted on 06/29/2012 6:09:51 PM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called 'gay' instead.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

I wonder who the guest is. An excellent essay -thanks for pointing it out.


24 posted on 06/29/2012 7:01:58 PM PDT by sanjuanbob (Festina Lente)
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To: Para-Ord.45

After reading some of the original case law, I always thought the Founders intention was for the federal government to “make regular” or standardize the rules and methods of commerce between the states. That applied to currency, weights and measures, forms and vehicles of trade (stocks, banking operations.) It also applied to prohibitions on exactions, regulations etc. that hit disproportionately on out of state residents.

It did not give the federal government the General legislative jurisdiction of the “police powers” to regulate actions to prevent substantial harm to general public health and safety. That is reserved to the states - with the exception of federal enclaves and D.C. where the federal government has exclusive legislative jurisdiction.


25 posted on 06/29/2012 7:16:37 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: stockpirate

“The USSC has become a complete joke, they are now nothing more then tools of the coummunist/fascists/progressives.

I hold the court in complete distain, I have no respect for them...”

They’ve always been like that. In the 1880’s every ruling favors railroad companies in a case which involves railroad companies. In the 1980’s every case favors Japanese corporations in a case which involves Japanese corporations. Ever since “Read My Lips, No New Taxes” George H. W. Bush raised taxes, hailed the New World Order, and loosed snipers on a small reclusive family at Ruby Ridge, the Supreme Court has approved and expanded the federal Imperium.

As Reagan pointed out, the problem IS the government.

Alter or abolish it, lock, stock and barrel.


26 posted on 06/29/2012 7:16:37 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Government HealthControl. Uniting the compassion of HMOs and the diligence of bureaucracy.)
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To: alstewartfan

Clarence Thomas has more integrity in his baby finger than you undoubtedly have in your entire being.
He’s a fine justice and a fine man. We are very lucky to have him on the court.
Why don’t you go clean your toilet or something instead of tearing down good people whom you don’t know anything about?


28 posted on 06/29/2012 7:22:20 PM PDT by Mountain Mary (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Thomas is RIGHT ON!

One would think we could do better than one out of nine.


29 posted on 06/29/2012 7:31:29 PM PDT by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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Thomas is a genius of the people: Honest, consistent, brilliant humble, reverent, etc... Everything that we hope from a best friend, spouse, child, sibling, etc. He is us.

I have been asked which Supreme Court justice would I most like to hang out with for an evening with the understanding that we can't talk "shop." Justice Thomas is my first choice: Breakfast at my house; fly fishing in my back yard in the morning; sporting clays at the club in the afternoon; a few pints of Harp at the Irish Pub down the street from my house; and then back to my house for a home cooked dinner where our wives have been getting to know each other over a martini or two. (Please note that several years ago, I had the piviledge of spending the evening with Justice Scalia at a very private event and he is truely the "most interesting man in the world."

30 posted on 06/29/2012 7:33:20 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Labyrinthos
I have a question that so far not a single Freeper has addressed, that I've seen:
If this thing is founded upon a tax or taxes to be accurate, is it Constitutionally allowed that little barry bastard commie can unilaterally exempt groups from this legally passed tax? Has the Oval Office stinker just given himself unenumerated powers? And what the hell can the Congress do about it?

31 posted on 06/29/2012 7:37:08 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Para-Ord.45
Clarence Thomas is right and so is the writer of the article. This country has gone so far astray but Thomas hasn't lost sight of the original vision. Unlike Roberts, he doesn't accept the premise of the false America.
32 posted on 06/29/2012 7:41:57 PM PDT by Yardstick
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Obviously, we cannot repeal each one overnight and must deal with them prudently, but we must not buy into the notion that the prevailing view of federal power over the past 80 years is sacrosanct.

We as a society will watch them all vanish in the blink of an eye. It is unsustainable; designed to fail. The only question is when . . .
33 posted on 06/29/2012 7:43:30 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: Mountain Mary

I’d ask you to go clean an outhouse up there on the mountain, for not getting the obvious irony and sarcasm, but I’m not an Al Stewart fan so I won’t!


34 posted on 06/29/2012 7:43:30 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: Para-Ord.45

It could go like Social Security, and that’s what the Left is counting on. We’ll bitch a little and then get used to it.

Just another government program to ensure the electability of the RAT Party. Whadya think has been the ultimate purpose of it?!


35 posted on 06/29/2012 7:47:16 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: Mountain Mary

Mary, before you send me off with a scrub brush, please re-read my posting. I thought that my sarcasm was dripping, but I guess not. Bob


36 posted on 06/29/2012 7:47:58 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Two broken Tigers on fire in the night Flicker their souls to the wind. Al Stewart "Roads to Moscow")
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To: alstewartfan

Oh sorry. I’m not right in the head since yesterday.


37 posted on 06/29/2012 7:56:22 PM PDT by Mountain Mary (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: Para-Ord.45
"We must not let the views of one unprincipled man in a black robe – or even decades’ worth of misguided court decisions – abrogate our founding documents."

Wow. That sounds like a smack down of Roberts to me.

38 posted on 06/29/2012 8:15:33 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
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We as a society will watch them all vanish in the blink of an eye. It is unsustainable; designed to fail. The only question is when . . .

Until recently, I would have disagreed that it was designed to fail, but with Obama that seems to be a valid presumption. And you're absolutely right, when we hit that wall it won't be pretty.
39 posted on 06/29/2012 8:23:33 PM PDT by DaveInDallas
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To: Smokeyblue

Looking through the PDF, I don’t see Thomas writing that sentence. Must be written by the author of the article not Thomas.


40 posted on 06/29/2012 8:30:08 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
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