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Article #1855Re: Property Rights
From: David M. Nieporent
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:30
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:30
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Merlin Dorfman wrote: > In ca.general Frank White <fwhite*NOSPAM*@colfax.com> wrote: >>I have said before. I will say again. Souter and his bunch are >>not liberals, they are right wingers. And it is a measure of just >>how extreme this current Supreme Court has become that they are >>considered the left wing of the Court. And just how ignorant of >>history those of you are who don't see this. > 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.) 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, (d) overturned Bowers, (e) found for New London in Kelo, (f) found for the federal government in Raich, (g) struck down the death penalty for the retarded, (h) struck down the death penalty for juveniles, (i) upheld the FMLA as applied to states. (j) upheld BCRA Hell, it's hard to find anything conservative that they've done. -- David Marc Nieporent nieporen@alumni.princeton.edu Jumping To Conclusions: http://www.oobleck.com/tollbooth
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