Republican Magickal Thinking, Paradise Lost Dept. 0
Dick Polman:
For instance, it was hard to miss Miller’s reference to the Tenth Amendment. Nothing new there. Over the years, foes of progress have repeatedly invoked that language about state’s rights, in order to make their obstructionism sound more high-minded.
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There it is, the logical extension of the current tea-party argument, as articulated yesterday by Miller: If it’s unconstitutional for the feds to provide unemployment benefits, then it’s certainly unconstitutional for the feds to enforce laws that put blacks and whites in the same public accommodations. After all, It’s the same Tenth Amendment principle.
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