I know, but it was very much a negotiation tactic, and we may find
ourselves in a similar situation soon enough. Unelected ideologues stuck in the past should not be able to cripple our government’s ability to manage a crisis on some kind of overly rigid and myopic “authorities” ground that they more or less made up. And make no mistake about it — that is exactly what they did.
This was not the Court upholding the Bill of Rights we’re talking about. All the “debate” at the time was over a bunch of clowns in robes telling a president who carried 46 states in a sweeping landslide he couldn’t do what he was elected to do because they didn’t think the General Welfare, Necessary and Proper, and Commerce Clauses were broad enough (a view wholesale rejected by most every credible Constitutional scholar since that era)
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Posted: 03/07/2022 at 09:47AM