Conservatives Actually Ran the Table Today, Legally Anyway
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Date: June 28th, 2012 7:01 PM Author: .,.,,..,.,,.,.,:,,:,...,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.::,.
1. activity/inactivity in commerce clause jurisprudence - now the law.
2. super-broad reading of necessary and proper clause - rejected.
3. the coercion doctrine - now actually means something, forbids giant coercive withdrawals of federal funds (shockingly, Breyer and Kagan sign on to this)
4. mandates aren't really okay, just tax penalties that ppl can choose to pay if they want to.
all that Roberts gave up was this case itself, which he did by construing the statute as a tax, just a statutory construction decision with no larger doctrinal meaning whatsoever. And it's not like many conservatives seriously thought you couldn't do something like this as a tax, just that it wasn't done. So the tax power didn't enlarge today.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982011&forum_id=2#20978832)
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Date: June 28th, 2012 7:25 PM Author: .,.,,..,.,,.,.,:,,:,...,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.::,.
did they not teach how you to read opinions in shitlaw school? the Court struck down the medicaid expansion as written, and a whole new era of spending clause jurisprudence has been born. this is today's most important development
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982011&forum_id=2#20978999) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 10:58 PM Author: .,.,,..,.,,.,.,:,,:,...,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.::,.
you're talking about facts steve, I'm talking about the law. they just invented some coercion doctrine out of nowhere, 7-2, no one saw it coming
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982011&forum_id=2#20980425) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 11:11 PM Author: .,.,,..,.,,.,.,:,,:,...,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.::,.
lolol. can we agree that the Court held something today that can be invoked in challenges to non-Medicaid statutes, and that steve's bullshit about how this will have no practical effect on Medicaid is irrelevant to the point I'm making
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982011&forum_id=2#20980572) |

Date: June 28th, 2012 7:14 PM Author:
Yeah, they only thing you "lost" is any shot of halting legislation that will snowball into a single-payer in 20 years and crush your small government hopes.
LOL at moral victories.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982011&forum_id=2#20978912) |

Date: June 28th, 2012 10:59 PM Author: wishiwerntapostr
THIS. I am a lib.
The opinion was Marbury v. Madison levels of genius, except instead of establishing judicial review, it sets up a dramatic takedown of government authority over the next 20 years.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982011&forum_id=2#20980435) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 11:01 PM Author: .,.,,..,.,,.,.,:,,:,...,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.::,.
no no, what good is activity/inactivity except for mandates? I can't think of any other exercise of commerce power this affects. but the spending clause decision is important, could affect all kinds of education spending, transportation spending, whatever
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982011&forum_id=2#20980449) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 11:06 PM Author: .,.,,..,.,,.,.,:,,:,...,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.::,.
I don't think the medicaid expansion was novel. After today, any gigantic appropriation that comes with strings attached could be held coercive. though that may not be the best reading of what they say, it may be that you just can't take away preexisting appropriations with strings attached to new ones. sort of a spurious line though.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982011&forum_id=2#20980513) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 11:08 PM Author: .,.,,..,.,,.,.,:,,:,...,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.::,.
oh okay. well I basically agree with you about commerce, I can't think of any other laws that regulate "inactivity" like this one does
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982011&forum_id=2#20980540) |
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Date: June 28th, 2012 11:09 PM Author: .,.,,..,.,,.,.,:,,:,...,::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.::,.
some ppl claim it's a holding because it's a necessary predicate to the Court's invoking constitutional avoidance and reading it as a tax.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982011&forum_id=2#20980542) |
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