AngryParsley comments on How Much Should We Care What the Founding Fathers Thought About Anything? - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: David_J_Balan 11 February 2010 12:38AM

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Comment author: AngryParsley 11 February 2010 08:36:26AM -2 points [-]

How about Gonzalez v. Raich or the very recent Citizens United v. FEC?

Comment author: taw 14 February 2010 05:53:59AM -1 points [-]

In neither of them Scalia seems to go against his originalist interpretation of the Constitution.

Wrt marijuana - both sides agreed that Congress had authority to regulate use of marijuana, and from this small scale use arguably followed. Wrt free speech - that's one of many defensible interpretations of what the First Amendment was supposed to mean.

The problem is stupid and ambiguous Constitution - you can "solve" it either by trying hard to apply it literally like Scalia until people fix it; or pretend it says something it doesn't like majority in Roe v. Wade.

Comment author: CronoDAS 11 February 2010 11:38:12AM -2 points [-]

Bush vs Gore?