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Are The Supremes Sending A Message In Arizona Ruling? | Nevada ...

) – Last year, Federal District Judge Henry Hudson affirmed what those of us who took Constitutional Law 101 (first semester) and 102 (second semester) have known since the 1972-73 school year.

Last month, the Supreme Court gave just a small hint of what might come when the appeal of Hudson’s ruling gets in front of them.  They ruled that Arizona was right when the state passed a law in 2007 which forced employers to use the e-Verify system or risk losing their right to do business in the state if they are found to knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

In the first case, Hudson ruled that the Interstate Commerce Clause in the Constitution does not imbue the Congress with the unlimited power to make citizens do whatever they want us to do.

In the second case, the Supremes ruled that the states were well within their rights to add to Federal laws as long as they do not contradict them.  In short, that there are limits to the power of the Federal Government.  This, extrapolated, is why a state like Massachusetts could require you to have health insurance but the Federal Government cannot.  The states are supposed to be laboratories of democracy where decisions can be made at the local level.

When dolts like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid first came up with the concept that health insurance was like car insurance and that the government could require us to buy it, those of us who actually have an education in the law as it relates to the Constitution looked at each other and said, “They can’t do that!”

And people carrying Pelosi and Reid’s water (there’s a visual for you) earnestly looked at us and said, “Of course we can.  We make you buy car insurance.”

Of course, it is not the Federal Government which does that.  It may be a bad policy decision on the part of the states, and it is, of course, predicated on your use of the state’s highways.  If you choose not to own a car or own one, but drive it only on your private property, you cannot be forced to buy car insurance.  As bad a policy decision as it may be, you only need to follow it if you a) own a car and b) drive it on the state’s roads.

So, they argue that everybody uses the health care system.

Well, that’s true, but that’s as a matter of public policy, not a matter of right.

The problem here is one of limits.

If you could force somebody to buy health insurance because your potential use of the health care system costs us money, what’s to stop the Federal Government, which bailed out General Motors and owns the bulk of the company now, from forcing us to buy a Chevy Cruze at one income level and a Chevy Volt at a higher one.  Or maybe a Caddy at the highest income level.

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