This shows how this one-great republic has devolved into a post-constitutional kakocracy. I would say “kritocracy,” a related and not inaccurate concept, but that might get me on a list somewhere.
Remember that Justice Scalia, that sainted lion of the right, signed off on using the Commerce Clause as a hammer to hit anyone the government didn’t like.
See Scalia’s particularly awful concurrence here: “Congress’s authority to enact laws necessary and proper for the regulation of interstate commerce is not limited to laws directed against economic activities that have a substantial effect on interstate commerce…”
This shows how this one-great republic has devolved into a post-constitutional kakocracy. I would say “kritocracy,” a related and not inaccurate concept, but that might get me on a list somewhere.
Remember that Justice Scalia, that sainted lion of the right, signed off on using the Commerce Clause as a hammer to hit anyone the government didn’t like.
See Scalia’s particularly awful concurrence here: “Congress’s authority to enact laws necessary and proper for the regulation of interstate commerce is not limited to laws directed against economic activities that have a substantial effect on interstate commerce…”
Robert Francis O’Rourke seems to agree.