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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
You initially suggested that the 14th Amendment does not empower Congress to pass civil rights laws, and I am telling you that not only is that wrong, the legislative power provided in Section 5 is in significant respects more robust than Congress's other powers. I mention this because the fact the 14th Amendment in this way permits evasion of the "case or controversy" requirement in Article III is a curiosity of passing relevance to what we were talking about. I would not be surprised that courts have also ruled that Congress can pass such laws pursuant to the Commerce Clause, but I also don't know why it would matter.
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What we're getting at is a new Conservative Party Line, i.e., that if we're stuck living with Civil Rights laws constitutionally underpinned by the 14th Amendment, we might as well legislate personhood to ban abortion outright irrespective of the federalism interests we espoused to the
intellectual conservatives, by which I mean the ones who don't give a shit about religious objections to abortion but who believe in limited federal power.
In other words, this is the
real core GOP voter biting the intellectual GOP members in their collective ass. Mess with the bull, get the horns. It's all fun and games until they ban porn. I'm sure Slave will tell us what life as the Most Conservative Person in Toronto is like.
