Today in Supreme Court History: May 4, 1942

5/4/1942: Wickard v. Filburn argued.

Comments

[James Pollock]

Wickard extends the federal power by stretching the Commerce Clause quite thin. But if it is overturned, won't one of the first dominoes to fall be the Controlled Substances Act?

[Dan Schiavetta]

Gonzalez v. Raich. Wickard is fine with conservatives if it serves their culture war interests.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Gonzalez v. Raich. Wickard is fine with conservatives if it serves their culture war interests.

[Aladdin's Carpet]

Thomas literally wrote the dissent in that case.

[Sarcastr0]

Thomas is hardly a mainstream conservative.

[Brett Bellmore]

It's kind of complicated. There's the "Republican officeholder/establishment" mainstream, then there's the "Republican voter" mainstream, and they're quite different in some regards.

Thomas certainly isn't the former, he might be closer to the latter.

[Brett Bellmore]

So, a win-win?

[Jimmy the Dane]

Today also highlights that the DC protest prisoners, being denied bail, unconstitutionally, are political prisoners.

Maybe Sarcastro can do us the one where he pretends leftist violent protesters don't enjoy an implicit (if not explicit) privilege from prosecution for their crimes.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9540207/58-suspects-97-arrested-Portland-Oregon-cases-scrapped-32-left-pending.html

[Sarcastr0]

You can't declare a double standard and only show one side of the standard, you foolish man.

https://www.pittsburghcurrent.com/sentences-bail-decisions-for-black-protesters-and-white-rioters-differ-greatly/

It's an easy Google, chief.

[Jimmy the Dane]

If all you are interested in is confirmation bias then yes you can find plenty of law hanging fruit out there pushed by the leftist media who are attempting to run cover for their side.

This still doesn't do anything to help your case and frankly just reads like a propaganda piece. If this is the best you can do that is just sad.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

A White Republican from Pennsylvania convicted of voter fraud -- he submitted a Trump ballot in the name of his dead mother -- was sentenced to probation this week.

Those who stormed our Capitol have gotten off easily, and egregiously so. Perhaps some five- and ten-year terms of incarceration will remedy that problem.

[Jimmy the Dane]

I'm all for stringent sentences for voter fraud. And once we start actually enforcing those laws the prisons are going to be packed full of D's.

[Brett Bellmore]

Yeah, what you said: Nail him to the wall, no tolerance for vote fraud.

[Brett Bellmore]

You know, I guess I could mute you now, but I'm opposed to doing that sort of thing on principle. And you're not always an asshole, maybe only 95% of the time.

I don't see the mute function improving this place. It's not like we have a desperate need to make our bubbles impenetrable.