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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: Wayners who wrote (19185)9/17/2009 7:04:16 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 103300
 
The Supreme Court has (wrongly IMO...) interpreted the Commerce Clause so very BROADLY (ever since they leaned over backwards in the early nineteen seventies to find a 'constitutional reason' for federal involvement in marijuana prohibition - previously assumed, as with alcohol, to be a matter for the States) that EVERYTHING under the Sun is considered covered by the Commerce Clause.

Even things which specifically ARE NOT SOLD ACROSS STATE LINES.

So, by the expansive view of federal powers that the Supremes have held to ever since then, there is absolutely no way that health insurance could *not* be considered to be in the fed's purview.

(As I said above though... I'm with you and believe that the court went seriously astray in the 'seventies when they came up with this crazy "everything goes" view about what is left to the States, and what is up to Federal authority.)

But, the house is well and truly out of the barn now... (unless we can get them to go and overturn the earlier rulings).
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