Jim Macklin wrote:
How about 9/12, when we couldn't fly and all had to start
wearing name badges with pictures? TFR that aren't
temporary?

Income tax even though the 16th Amendment was not properly
ratified?

You mean like the way the Bill of Rights was not properly
ratified?


Eminent domain as approved by the SCOUS to take your
business or home because it is worth more tax money to the
government if somebody else owns it for a while?

Eminent domain has been (ab)used for that purpose
since before the Constitution was adopted. I've been
opposed to the practice since first becoming aware of
in the early 1970s. But I am not so dishonest as to
argue that it is unConstitutional, or something new.
Indeed, I am astonished that a case disputed centuries
old settled law got to the USSC

It is pretty hard to see how an arugment can be made that
a prohibiton of confiscation of property WITHOUT just compensation
does not implicitly permit confiscation WITH just compensation.


Campaign finance reform that doesn't allow free speech 60
days before an election?

THAT is unconstitutional no matter what the Damn Republican-
dominated Federal Courts say.

"The Congress shall make no law" doesn' tleave much
weasel room.

--

FF