AntonToo
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Supreme Court has long ago ruled that Congress can tax and spend on pretty much whatever the f it wants to, so long as it does so uniformly across the states.
Alright, well, after you find apportionment in Article 1; Section 8 for oddball you can work on finding judicial review in Article III.
Good? We'll be in the neighborhood.
Supreme Court is the final word on these constitutional matters and your little half-baked legal opinions are worth exactly nothing.
Yes, we can't POSSIBLY disagree with the Supreme Court. They say it, therefore the rest of us peons should shut up and accept that OF COURSE it's right and good. How DARE we think we get to have opinions about how our masters and overlords decide things?
1. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857): Hands down the worst Supreme Court decision ever, Dred Scott held that African Americans, whether free men or slaves, could not be considered American citizens. The ruling undid the Missouri Compromise, barred laws that would free slaves, and all but guaranteed that there would be no political solution to slavery. The opinion even included a ridiculous "parade of horribles" that would appear if Scott were recognized as a citizen, unspeakable scenarios like African Americans being able to vacation, hold public meetings, and exercise their free speech rights.
2. Buck v. Bell (1927): "Eugenics? Yes, please!" the Court declared in this terrible decision which still stands as good law. In an 8-1 decision written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Court upheld the forced sterilization of those with intellectual disabilities "for the protection and health of the state." Justice Holmes ruled that "society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind" and ended the opinion by declaring that "three generations of imbeciles are enough."
3. Korematsu v. United States (1944): Here, the Supreme Court upheld the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, finding that the need to protect against espionage outweighed the individual rights of American citizens. In a cruel and ironic twist, this was also the first time the Court applied strict scrutiny to racial discrimination by the U.S. government, belying the idea that strict scrutiny is "strict in theory, fatal in fact."
4. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896): The Court's famous "separate but equal" ruling upheld state segregation laws. In doing so, the Court made sure that the gains of the post-Civil War reconstruction era were quickly replaced by decades of Jim Crow laws.
But hey, "The Supreme Court says so, and they are much smarter than you peasants!!"
Yea yea, anyday now the court will turn around and tell the Feds they can't tax and spend, that Medicaid is unconstituional, that SS has to close up, that highways need to be given away to the states and that various taxes need to be thrown out.
You have a lifetime of daydreaming ahead of you hun-bun.