To nobody’s surprise, the GOP promise to cite Constitutional authority for every bill turns out to have been a meaningless promise.
Now some Republicans aren’t worrying too much about it. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., who introduced the NPR bill, filed a “Constitutional Authority Statement” that consisted entirely of six words: “Article I, Section 8, Clause 1.” For those of you scoring at home, that part of the Constitution allows Congress to “lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises.”
For what it’s worth, the Democrats haven’t embraced it, mostly just citing the Commerce Clause.
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Newt Gingrich is unhappy about the Prop 8 ruling
Newt has condemned yesterday’s wonderful federal court ruling. His main confusion seems to be about whether it’s constitutional for judges to over-turn voter-approved laws. (It is! That’s part of their job!)
Constitutional confusion aside, Newt seems to at least appreciate diversity of opinion. Admirably, the comments section has not been scrubbed of dissent, and here is the current highest-rated comment:
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