The End of ‘Pen and Phone’

SCOTUS strikes a blow against the lawmaking authority of the regulatory bureaucracy.

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  1. Steven Lentz

    I have really enjoyed listening to Sarah and David discussing the SCOTUS rulings and other subjects. On AO.

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  2. Jay Rogers

    I'm continually amazed, I suppose I should stop by now, how the ultras on both ends can't see the future consequences of their near-in myopic thinking to get what they want before the next political change.
    Packing the court, electoral college, voting restrictions, holding back appointments.
    How can they not see the pandora's box permission they are giving the other side of the aisle once the power equation shifts?

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    Marc Frischhertz

    The right wing utopia is here. God save us

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    Earl King

    A phone and a pen. Will this put a stop to Presidents making up Law as they see fit? Doubtful. The House isn’t lazy....Under Paul Ryans tenure as Speaker the 116th Congress passed like 344 public bills. The 117th Congress (this one) passed 154 bills. It is not for lack of legislating. Majority of it is not a compromise, its virtue signaling or it obstruction, to prevent the other side from winning. In todays politics the other side must loose and the other side must prevent the other side from winning.

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  5. CatoTheElder

    Ensure the clear identification and understanding of antecedents of pronouns.

    That is all. For now.

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    Chuckgold

    It's about the unborn human life. It's not about power over women, sex, etc. The already born have their lives protected by law. The unborn lives are equally valuable to the already born lives, just at a different stage of development, and should have similar protections under law.

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    Chuckgold

    ???
    As far as I can see, it's irresponsible men that benefit most when (mostly unrestricted) abortion is allowed. But, yes, it is about the innocent human life being taken. With much of the stereotyping that I see, anti-abortion folks are evil, power-mad folks that want to control women. The pro-life people who I know simply see killing the unborn as equal to killing the already born. We believe the unborn is an equally valuable human and deserves universal protection by law.

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    Jeff Walden

    A bunch of Roe supporters probably could count themselves in the category of thinking it was legal balderdash, yet correct on other grounds.

    I'd include US v. Windsor in that category of right, but for the wrong reasons. Family law is quintessentially a matter of state law, and the federal government does not have authority to define this stuff for itself.

    And Scalia got NLRB v. Noel Canning right, and the majority got it wrong: the power to fill vacancies does not arise whenever some random break of just long enough happens, but rather in the time between full sessions of the Senate. Breyer's balancing-test fetish is horsefeathers, as usual. The distinction doesn't matter terribly much in practice -- at this point hostile Senates can just hold constant pro forma sessions that meet Breyer's degree of functioning and it amounts to the same thing. But reasoning matters every bit as much as outcome.

    As Scalia once put it, "[A]n opinion that gets the reasons wrong gets everything wrong, and that is worth a dissent [or a concurrence to the same point, if need be]."

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    The Stray Goose

    Yeah? We’ll see…

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    The Stray Goose

    My thoughts exactly.

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