Lies the government told you (43 page)
53
.
Civil Rights Cases
, 109 U.S. 3, 13 (1883).
54
.
Plessy v. Ferguson
, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).
55
.
Plessy,
163 U.S. at 551.
56
.
Plessy
, 163 U.S. at 552. The fascinating part of the Plessy case, however, is that regardless of the railroad companies’ feelings toward African-Americans, they believed that it was way too costly to purchase additional cars for African-Americans, so as to segregate the two races. Therefore, if the legislature had not passed the race-based law at issue in Plessy, the free market would have ensured racial equality in this area.
57
.
Plessy
, 163 U.S. at 559.
58
.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
59
.
Regents of Univ. of California v. Bakke
, 438 U.S. 265 (1978).
60
.
Grutter v. Bollinger
, 539 U.S. 306 (2003).
61
.
Grutter
, 539 U.S. at 341.
62
.
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena
, 515 U.S. 200, 240 (1995).
63
.
Grutter
, 539 U.S. at 351.
Lie #2
1
. Jeff Benedict,
Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage
(New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2009), 88.
2
. Ibid., 324.
3
. Ibid., 357.
4
. Ibid., 330.
5
. See my book
Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2004), Introduction.
6
. Henry David Thoreau,
Civil Disobedience
(1849),
http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
.
7
.
S. Burlington County NAACP v. Mt. Laurel
, 92 NJ 158, 209 (1983).
8
. A newspaper, the
Star Ledger
, quoted him.
9
. Anastasia C. Sheffler-Wood, “Where Do We Go from Here? States Revise Eminent Domain Legislation in Response to Kelo,” 79 Temp. L. Rev. 617 (2006), 618.
10
.
Kelo
, 545 U.S. 469 (2005).
11
. Patrick McGeehan, “Pfizer to Leave City That Won Land-Use Case,”
New York Times
,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/nyregion/13pfizer.html?scp=2&sq=pfizer&st=cse
(Nov. 13, 2009).
12
. Ibid.
13
. Ibid.
14
.
Kelo
, 545 U.S. at 503.
15
. 545 U.S. at 522.
16
. See my book
Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws
, 65–78.
17
. Patrick McGeehan, “Pfizer to Leave City That Won Land-Use Case.”
18
. Ibid.
19
. Ibid.
20
. Ibid.
21
. Brian A. Blum and Juliana B. Wellman, “Participation, Assent and Liberty in Contract Formation,” Ariz. St. L.J. (1982), 901, 907–08.
22
. It is important to note that in discussing a “valid police purpose,” the Court was referring to the government’s “police power,” which is the power of
state governments
to protect the health, safety, welfare, and morality of its people. The police power has nothing to do with the policing of criminals, but rather with government interference with the rights and dealings of the common people.
23
. See my book
The Constitution in Exile
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006), 89–101.
24
. This is my favorite line from among all U.S. Supreme Court decisions and best crystallizes an originalist interpretation of the Constitution.
25
. Karen De Coster, “Obama to Government Motors: ‘Let’s Roll’,” Ludwig von Mises Institute,
http://mises.org/story/3484
(May 22, 2009).
26
. See my book
The Constitution in Exile
.
27
. “Europe’s Solution: Take More Time Off,” a post on “Room for Debate,” a blog from the editors of the
New York Times
,
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/europes-solution-take-more-time-off/
(Mar. 29, 2009).
Lie #3
1
. Then Judge John G. Roberts, at his Senate confirmation hearing (Sept. 12, 2005).
2
. “Obama’s Primetime Press Conference,” Real Clear Politics,
http://www .realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/obama_primetime_press_transcript.html
(Mar. 24, 2009).
3
. Kermit Roosevelt, “Why Judicial ‘Activism’ Explains Little,”
CBS News
,
http://www .cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/08/opinion/main5144440.shtml
( Jul. 8, 2009).
4
. Bryan A. Garner,
Black’s Law Dictionary
, Third Pocket Edition (2006).
5
. Ibid.
6
. Kermit Roosevelt,
The Myth of Judicial Activism
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 1–2.
7
. Ibid., 2.
8
. Then Judge John G. Roberts, at his Senate confirmation hearing (Sept. 12, 2005).
9
. Ibid.
10
. Ibid.
11
. Ibid.
12
. Susan Page, “Sessions vows third GOP vote against Sotomayor,”
USA Today
,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-07-27-sessions_N.htm?csp=34
( Jul. 27, 2009).
13
. David Stout, “McCain Will Vote Against Sotomayor,” a post on “The Caucus,” a blog from the
New York Times
,
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/ mccain-will-vote-against-sotomayor/?scp=1&sq=august%203,%202009%20 mccain%20opposes%20sotomayor&st=cse
(Aug. 3, 2009).
14
. Then Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Lecture entitled “A Latina Judge’s Life,” given at the University of California–Berkeley, in 2001.
15
. Sam Stein, “’Where Policy Is Made’: Sotomayor’s Court Comment Explained,”
Huffington Post
,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/26/where-policy-is-made-soto_n_207570.html
(May 26, 2009).
16
. Alexander Hamilton,
The Federalist
, No. 78.
17
. Ibid.
18
. Hon. Richard B. Sanders, “Do State Constitutions and Courts Still Protect Liberty?”
http://www.justicesanders.com/20030803CatoInst.htm.
19
.
Marbury v. Madison
, 5 U.S. 137 (1803).
20
. Erwin Chemerinsky,
Federal Jurisdiction
, 5th Ed. (New York: Aspen Publishers, 2007), 12.
21
. Ibid.
22
. Chemerinsky,
Federal Jurisdiction
, 12.
23
. Laurence Tribe,
Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1992), 80.
24
. Ibid.
25
.
Plessy v. Ferguson
, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).
26
.
Strauder v. West Virginia
, 100 U.S. 303 (1880).
27
.
Strauder
, 100 U.S. at 308.
28
.
Roe v. Wade
, 410 U.S. 113, 153 (1973).
29
. “The court as interior decorator – Judge Russell Clark orders capital improvements for Kansas City schools,”
National Review
( Jan. 22, 1990).
30
. John Taylor Gatto, “A Billion, Six for KC,” The Odysseus Group,
http://www .johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/17f.htm
.
31
. “The court as interior decorator,”
National Review
.
32
. Ibid.
33
. Ibid.
34
. Ibid.
35
. George Will, “More Judicial Activism, Please,”
Washington Post
,
http://www .washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/AR2009061202755.html
( Jun. 14, 2009).
36
. Ibid.
37
. Ibid.
Lie #4
1
. Vincent Bugliosi,
The Betrayal of America
(New York: Thunder Mouth’s Press / Nation Books, 2001), 16.
2
. James Madison, The Federalist, No. 57.
3
. “Full Text of the Iraqi Constitution,”
Washington Post
,
http://www.washingtonpost .com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101201450.html
(Oct. 12, 2005).
4
. Ibid.
5
. “President George W. Bush’s Address Regarding Iraqi Elections,”
www.johnstonarchive.net/terroirism/bushiraqelection.html
( Jan. 30, 2005).
6
. Ibid.
7
. Kenneth P. Vogel, “Will Afghanistan’s election be fair?,”
Politico
,
http://www.politico .com/news/stories/0609/24105.html
( Jun. 23, 2009).
8
. Fisher Ames, United States Congressman from 1st District of Massachusetts, 1789–1797, in “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (Source: DiLorenzo, Thomas J., “Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo93.html
(May 17, 2005).
9
. Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment.”
10
. Ibid.
11
. Ibid.
12
. Ibid.
13
. Ibid.
14
. Ralph A. Rossum,
Federalism, The Supreme Court, and The Seventeenth Amendment
(Maryland: Lexington Books, 2001), 183.
15
. Ibid.
16
. Ibid., 183–84.
17
. Ibid.
18
. Ibid., 185.
19
. Ibid., 187–90.
20
. Ibid., 190–91.
21
. Ibid.
22
. Ibid.
23
. Ibid., 191.
24
. Ibid.
25
. Ibid.
26
. Ibid.
27
. Jerry O’Neil (Montana State Senator), “Q. Why should we repeal the 17th Amendment and forfeit our right to vote for U.S. senators?”
www.liberty-ca.org/repeal17/states/montana2003oneil.htm
(2003).
28
. Ibid.
29
. Ibid.
30
. Ibid.
31
. Maraleen D. Shields, “Racial Gerrymandering: Enfranchisement or Political Apartheid,”
http://www.drury.edu/ess/irconf/MShields.html.
32
. Ibid.
33
. Ibid.
34
. Ibid.
35
. Ibid.
36
. Ibid.
37
. Ibid.
38
. Ibid.
39
.
Shaw v. Reno
, 509 U.S. 630 (1993).
40
. Shields, “Racial Gerrymandering: Enfranchisement or Political Apartheid.”
41
. Ibid.
42
. Ibid.
43
. Abigail Thernstrom, and Stephan Thernstrom, “Racial Gerrymandering Is Unnecessary,”
Wall Street Journal
,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122637373937516543.html
(Nov. 11, 2008).
44
. Ibid.
45
. Ibid.
46
. Ibid.
47
. Ibid.
48
. Ibid.
49
. Shields, “Racial Gerrymandering: Enfranchisement or Political Apartheid.”
50
. Private recounts conducted after President Bush was inaugurated indicated that he did, in fact, win the 2000 election. In April 2001, the
Miami Herald
and
USA Today
reported that if Florida went ahead with the recounts, George W. Bush would have widened his lead by 1,665 votes. The
New York Times
also conducted a recount, and reported on November 12, 2001, that George W. Bush would have prevailed. (Sources: “Media Recount: Bush Won the 2000 Election,”
PBS Online NewsHour
, http://www .pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html (Apr. 3, 2001); Ford, Fessenden, and John M. Broder, “Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote,”
New York Times
, http://www.nytimes .com/2001/11/12/politics/12VOTE.html?scp=1&sq=november%2012,%202001%20 florida%20ballots&st=cse (Nov. 12, 2001)).
51
. Summary of proceedings from
The Nine
, by Jeffrey Toobin (New York: Anchor Books, 2008), chapters 11–13.
52
. Toobin,
The Nine
, 165–66.
53
. Bugliosi,
The Betrayal of America
, 26.
54
. Toobin,
The Nine
, 166.
55
. Ibid.
56
. Ibid., 167.
57
. Ibid., 168.
58
. Bugliosi,
The Betrayal of America
, 25.
59
. Ibid., 26–27.
60
. Ibid., 50.
61
. Ibid.
62
. William O. Douglas,
The Court Years, 1939-1975: The Autobiography of William O. Douglas
(Vintage Books, 1981).
63
. Toobin,
The Nine
, 201.
64
.
Bush v. Gore
, 531 U.S. 98, 109 (2000).
65
. Steven LaTulippe, “Ron Paul and the Empire,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/latulippe/latulippe80.html
( Jul. 31, 2007).
66
. “Obama-McCain Comparisons,”
www.obama-mccain.info
67
. Ibid.
68
. “Andrea Mitchell: John McCain Only Met Sarah Palin Once,”
Huffington Post
,
www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/29/andrea-mitchell-john-mcca_n_122517.html
(first posted: Aug. 29, 2008; updated: Sept. 29, 2008).
69
. Ibid.
70
. “Ron Paul’s Opening Statement at National Press Club,” The LRC Blog,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/022773.html
(Sept. 10, 2008).
71
. Butler Shaffer, “The Voting Ritual,” LewRockwell.com,
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer147.html
(Oct. 24, 2006).
72
.
David Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
,
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS.