Supreme Court gives one for us!

snapshot · 11-02-2005, 06:02 AM

Supreme Court seems to be in favor of lessening drugs laws. They just read on CSPAN Washington Journal that Roberts and Scalia both think that the drug laws on religious use of DMT are overreaching. Scalia noted that American Indians take peyote ritualistically and the sky didn't fall down. I just saw it in writing on CSPAN and it will be on later today. I can't find the quotes. But you can trust me. John Roberts and Scalia are both in favor of reducing drug laws somewhat. They aren't radical conservatives. I like them both very much.

snapshot · 11-02-2005, 06:24 AM

Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the 1990 peyote opinion, said tribes have been using peyote _ "a demonstration you can make an exception without the sky falling."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...110101103.html

11-02-2005, 07:08 AM

you understand that the 1990 decision went against a religious use exemption, it was congress who overturned, or tightned up the decision with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993

11-02-2005, 10:15 AM

^ and do u understand that in City of Boerne v Flores the SC declared that parts of the RFRA were unconstitutional, specifically because of those reasons?

11-02-2005, 11:00 AM

right, and scalia wrote the first one and concurred on the case you mention, so there is no precedent for him, scalia, believing in a religious use exemption that would overturn local, state or federal statutes

11-02-2005, 09:11 PM

holy shit this thread feels like being in class.

yahooka hit a new peak with this

11-02-2005, 06:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
snapshot no custom. customize Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: The unOriginal Rorschach. Posts: 19,302 Thanks: 15 Thanked 22 Times in 21 Posts	Supreme Court gives one for us! Supreme Court seems to be in favor of lessening drugs laws. They just read on CSPAN Washington Journal that Roberts and Scalia both think that the drug laws on religious use of DMT are overreaching. Scalia noted that American Indians take peyote ritualistically and the sky didn't fall down. I just saw it in writing on CSPAN and it will be on later today. I can't find the quotes. But you can trust me. John Roberts and Scalia are both in favor of reducing drug laws somewhat. They aren't radical conservatives. I like them both very much.

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11-02-2005, 06:24 AM	#2 (permalink)
snapshot no custom. customize Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: The unOriginal Rorschach. Posts: 19,302 Thanks: 15 Thanked 22 Times in 21 Posts	Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the 1990 peyote opinion, said tribes have been using peyote _ "a demonstration you can make an exception without the sky falling." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...110101103.html

11-02-2005, 07:08 AM	#3 (permalink)
kamikazi89 Guest Posts: n/a	you understand that the 1990 decision went against a religious use exemption, it was congress who overturned, or tightned up the decision with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993

11-02-2005, 10:15 AM	#4 (permalink)
j-wonder Guest Posts: n/a	^ and do u understand that in City of Boerne v Flores the SC declared that parts of the RFRA were unconstitutional, specifically because of those reasons?

11-02-2005, 11:00 AM	#5 (permalink)
kamikazi89 Guest Posts: n/a	right, and scalia wrote the first one and concurred on the case you mention, so there is no precedent for him, scalia, believing in a religious use exemption that would overturn local, state or federal statutes

11-02-2005, 09:11 PM	#6 (permalink)
j-wonder Guest Posts: n/a	holy shit this thread feels like being in class. yahooka hit a new peak with this

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