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Article #1846Re: Property Rights
From: Merlin Dorfman
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 04:32
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 04:32
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In alt.tv.the-west-wing David M. Nieporent <nieporen@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Merlin Dorfman wrote:
>> In ca.general Frank White <fwhite*NOSPAM*@colfax.com> wrote:
...
>> You are exactly "right," pardon the pun. This court has moved
>> the interpretation of the law far to the right, from things like
>> denying states the right to keep guns off school campuses to
>> reversing progress on civil rights, and many other areas.
> You're mistaken. None of that happened. The Supreme Court made *no* ruling
> on what states can do about guns on school campuses. The Supreme Court
> ruled that the *federal* government can't legislate about local issues such
> as that. (And even that's an exaggeration; all they actually said was that
> Congress can't do so except as part of a comprehensive regulatory scheme.)
My mistake; I meant to say denying the Federal government the
right to regulate guns on school campuses. Do you doubt that the
Warren Court, or even the Minnesota Twins, would have ruled
otherwise?
> I don't know what "reversing progress on civil rights" means; it's vague and
> unclear.
> But I do know that this "far to the right" Supreme Court has, in recent years,
> (a) upheld Roe,
> (b) upheld Miranda,
> (c) upheld race preferences in college admissions,
...and reduced/limited the scope of all these.
...
> (g) struck down the death penalty for the retarded,
> (h) struck down the death penalty for juveniles,
Limited rather than reduced, I believe.
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From: Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@green.rahul.net>
Newsgroups: la.general,ca.general,scruz.general,misc.survivalism,alt.tv.the-west-wing
Subject: Re: Property Rights
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 04:32:46 +0000 (UTC)
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