A 10th Amendment Drama Fit for Daytime TV Heads to the Supreme Court

[groovedaddy]

The Tea Party’s favorite part of the Constitution — the 10th Amendment, which limits federal power — arrived at the Supreme Court last week. In keeping with the spirit of the times, it came wrapped in the plot of a soap opera.

The amendment has played a starring role in challenges to the recent federal health care legislation. But the justices have not made the task of divining their own views particularly easy.

Their most recent consideration of where Congress’s constitutional power ends came in a case involving the civil commitment of sex offenders.

Now the court has decided to consider what to do about a woman hellbent on poisoning her best friend.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/19bar.html?th&emc=th

[elleng]

1. Posted yesterday!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x565454

Guess DUers not too interested in 10th Amendment, eh?

[Ozymanithrax]

2. The Roberts Court has tended to side with Federal Power when push comes to shove...

I think they will find the Government acted within it's authority.