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Jim DeMint is a throwback to the Lochner-Era

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


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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:50 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode



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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:50 AM
Author: effete soul-stirring stead pocket flask

i see what you did there

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:54 AM
Author: Turquoise Home Rigor

?

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:55 AM
Author: Salmon hideous old irish cottage

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:55 AM
Author: Turquoise Home Rigor

Please enlighten your TTT friend here.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:57 AM
Author: Salmon hideous old irish cottage

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 2:58 AM
Author: effete soul-stirring stead pocket flask

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:02 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:03 AM
Author: Salmon hideous old irish cottage

i thought it dealt with bakers and shit.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:05 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

yeah, they got white lung from breathing in flour

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:07 AM
Author: Turquoise Home Rigor

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:09 AM
Author: Wine space idea he suggested

haha you funny

baker v. carr: political question doctrine defeated.

*bark bark kill self

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:27 AM
Author: Clear base kitty cat

No that one was about cars.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:08 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

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.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:10 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:14 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

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.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:15 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:16 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

God I hope not.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:17 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

idk, it could be a good thing

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:08 AM
Author: effete soul-stirring stead pocket flask

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:10 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

correct.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:11 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

yeah, but they may not have expanded it this far

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:14 AM
Author: effete soul-stirring stead pocket flask

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.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:15 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

lawyers don't know this shit.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:16 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

the question is "is not doing something commerce"

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



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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:21 AM
Author: effete soul-stirring stead pocket flask

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:22 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

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

which, honestly, is quite reasonable

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:22 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:27 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:28 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

Sure it is. They are regulating health care transactions.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:28 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:31 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:32 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:34 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

Eventually, everybody needs to see a doctor.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:35 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:39 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

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.

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:39 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

can you tax people for a religous practice though?

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:41 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:42 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

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



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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:43 AM
Author: Twinkling vibrant friendly grandma abode

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

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



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Date: December 24th, 2009 3:44 AM
Author: Green passionate range doctorate

very likely

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