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Jim DeMint is a throwback to the Lochner-Era

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Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
i see what you did there
180 charcoal mad-dog skullcap stead
  12/24/09
?
Brilliant elastic band
  12/24/09
i guess only students at non-TTTs get the joke here man.
hairraiser frisky kitchen idea he suggested
  12/24/09
Please enlighten your TTT friend here.
Brilliant elastic band
  12/24/09
suck my dick faggot. i will never do a favor for a faggot.
hairraiser frisky kitchen idea he suggested
  12/24/09
demint is a retard who doesn't know anything about law, but ...
180 charcoal mad-dog skullcap stead
  12/24/09
lochner wasn't a commerce clause case though, it held that c...
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
i thought it dealt with bakers and shit.
hairraiser frisky kitchen idea he suggested
  12/24/09
yeah, they got white lung from breathing in flour
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
LOL, fail. The bakers case was Baker v. Carr.
Brilliant elastic band
  12/24/09
haha you funny baker v. carr: political question doctrine...
Grizzly multi-colored house chad
  12/24/09
No that one was about cars.
galvanic library codepig
  12/24/09
It was a substantive due process case that, at the time, was...
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
I agree there is a certain nexus b/t the commerce clause and...
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
True. But this depends on what the SC decides comes under th...
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
I'd agree, but I could see it making a comeback, many non ec...
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
God I hope not.
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
idk, it could be a good thing
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
i didn't say it was a commerce clause case. they later expa...
180 charcoal mad-dog skullcap stead
  12/24/09
correct.
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
yeah, but they may not have expanded it this far
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
i'm just a law student but i recall that the commerce clause...
180 charcoal mad-dog skullcap stead
  12/24/09
lawyers don't know this shit.
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
the question is "is not doing something commerce" ...
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
he would hold that they cant regulate commerce by forcing pe...
180 charcoal mad-dog skullcap stead
  12/24/09
he would hold that failing to make a purchase isn't "co...
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
People who wouldn't otherwise purchase insurance sill need a...
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
that's not what is being regulated though is it?
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
Sure it is. They are regulating health care transactions.
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
they could phrase it that way, but as I understand it the ma...
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
My understanding is that everybody uses health care, and tha...
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
at risk /= use, plenty of people could avoid making any use ...
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
Eventually, everybody needs to see a doctor.
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
that doesn't mean they will, there are religous sects that r...
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
That would be an interesting challenge, but I think that the...
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
can you tax people for a religous practice though?
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
That's an interesting question. There's probably an answer s...
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
I'd bet the answer is "no, you can't" but I don't ...
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09
The answer is probably in a case that has to do with the Ami...
Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part
  12/24/09
very likely
Hideous curious kitty
  12/24/09


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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:50 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636491)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:50 AM
Author: 180 charcoal mad-dog skullcap stead

i see what you did there

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636493)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:54 AM
Author: Brilliant elastic band

?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636523)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:55 AM
Author: hairraiser frisky kitchen idea he suggested

i guess only students at non-TTTs get the joke here man.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636529)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:55 AM
Author: Brilliant elastic band

Please enlighten your TTT friend here.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636535)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:57 AM
Author: hairraiser frisky kitchen idea he suggested

suck my dick faggot. i will never do a favor for a faggot.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636544)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:58 AM
Author: 180 charcoal mad-dog skullcap stead

demint is a retard who doesn't know anything about law, but asserts that the healthcare bill would be unconstitutional. lochner is an early 20th century case according to which demint would (probably) be right. however, the commerce clause has since been expanded via INTERPRETATION

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636547)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:02 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

lochner wasn't a commerce clause case though, it held that congress couldn't regulate the white lung shit due to substantive due process iirc

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636559)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:03 AM
Author: hairraiser frisky kitchen idea he suggested

i thought it dealt with bakers and shit.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636567)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:05 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

yeah, they got white lung from breathing in flour

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636571)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:07 AM
Author: Brilliant elastic band

LOL, fail. The bakers case was Baker v. Carr.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636585)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:09 AM
Author: Grizzly multi-colored house chad

haha you funny

baker v. carr: political question doctrine defeated.

*bark bark kill self

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636598)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:27 AM
Author: galvanic library codepig

No that one was about cars.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636673)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:08 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

It was a substantive due process case that, at the time, was closely linked to the idea that the federal government does not have a tremendous amount of power under the commerce clause.

My comment was directed at his conception of what is the proper -- and constitutional -- role of government. I honestly think he'd fit right in with the Lochner Court.

I also think that his idea of what is constitutional *may* have been close to correct during the Lochner era. Now, he's just woefully and embarrassingly wrong.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636589)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:10 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

I agree there is a certain nexus b/t the commerce clause and lochner, but congress can have the power to do something under the commerce clause but be forbidden from doing that particular thing because of substantive due process

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636604)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:14 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

True. But this depends on what the SC decides comes under the protection of substantive due process.

Personally, I think that Lochner was wrong for deeper reasons, but was only superseded with commerce clause shit because it was the easiest way to get rid of the case.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636616)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:15 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

I'd agree, but I could see it making a comeback, many non economic substantive due process cases use a lot of similar reasoning iirc

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636620)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:16 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

God I hope not.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636628)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:17 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

idk, it could be a good thing

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636631)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:08 AM
Author: 180 charcoal mad-dog skullcap stead

i didn't say it was a commerce clause case. they later expanded the commerce clause at the expense of economic substantive due process

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636590)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:10 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

correct.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636603)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:11 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

yeah, but they may not have expanded it this far

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636605)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:14 AM
Author: 180 charcoal mad-dog skullcap stead

i'm just a law student but i recall that the commerce clause has been interpreted to allow for pretty much anything if you can connect it to interstate commerce. i guess the rape law didn't go through, but unlike rape, insurance has clear interstate commercial implications.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636619)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:15 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

lawyers don't know this shit.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636623)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:16 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

the question is "is not doing something commerce"

scalia would almost certainly say it isn't I'd think



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636624)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:21 AM
Author: 180 charcoal mad-dog skullcap stead

he would hold that they cant regulate commerce by forcing people to pay some money?? that seems unlikely to me.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636650)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:22 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

he would hold that failing to make a purchase isn't "commerce"

which, honestly, is quite reasonable

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636657)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:22 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

People who wouldn't otherwise purchase insurance sill need and use healthcare. The resulting transactions certainly affect interstate commerce.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636659)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:27 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

that's not what is being regulated though is it?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636675)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:28 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

Sure it is. They are regulating health care transactions.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636676)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:28 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

they could phrase it that way, but as I understand it the mandate applies to those who make no use whatsoever of health care

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636683)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:31 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

My understanding is that everybody uses health care, and that everybody is at risk of being hurt in an accident at any time.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636692)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:32 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

at risk /= use, plenty of people could avoid making any use of the healthcare system, very few do, but many could

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636697)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:34 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

Eventually, everybody needs to see a doctor.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636700)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:35 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

that doesn't mean they will, there are religous sects that refuse to

hell, come to think of it those groups may well have a first amendment complaint

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636702)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:39 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

That would be an interesting challenge, but I think that the best outcome for the challengers would be to be excepted from the mandate. I really doubt the mandate would be declared unconstitutional on first amendment grounds. I also think that Congress can just declare the mandate to be a tax and tell everyone to STFU.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636715)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:39 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

can you tax people for a religous practice though?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636718)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:41 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

That's an interesting question. There's probably an answer somewhere.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636723)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:42 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

I'd bet the answer is "no, you can't" but I don't have a cite



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636727)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:43 AM
Author: Fighting razzmatazz party of the first part

The answer is probably in a case that has to do with the Amish and their tax obligations.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636730)



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:44 AM
Author: Hideous curious kitty

very likely

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1172937&forum_id=2#13636731)