No Runny Eggs

The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think.

Archive for March 31st, 2008

The Morning Scramble – 3/31/2008

by @ 7:08. Filed under The Morning Scramble.

The Winter That Won’t Die™ is being dealt the death blow today. Unfortunately, it’s not sun that’s dealing it…

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– Gabriel Malor is all doom and gloom.
– Bill Quick channels the infamous Lazamataz after he read a “study” saying cell phones are deadlier than smoking or asbestos.
– Jim Lynch has a caption contest going on Barack Obama’s “bowling”, while doubleplusundead has the gory details on how it is like his chances in Pennsylvania.
– Owen goes into the Howard Dean memory hole.
– William Smith, the Liberty Brian and CDR Salamander are back in the saddle again.
– Conservative Belle notes the nannies are no longer satisfied with seizing real guns.
– Headless Blogger has the next no-drill zone for the envirowhackos; North Dakota.
– Jessica McBride has the salient question in former Milwaukee police chief Nannette Hegarty’s discrimination claim.
– Carol Platt Liebau has two very different reasons why the Goracle isn’t stepping in to save the Dems from themselves. I hope it’s the latter reason; there’s nothing quite like making the two largest constituencies mad.

A Constitutional Firewall?

by @ 7:00. Filed under Law and order.

Included in Article VI of the constitution is this direction regarding the enforcement power of treaties:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

Up through the early 1900’s, this phrase was interpreted to mean that treaties would outline relationships between the US and another country but that the language of the treaty could not override the US or state constitutions.   That interpretation changed in 1920 when a US Supreme Court case, Missouri V. Holland  concluded that a treaty could override a State’s authority and in fact, become the “Supreme law of the land,” coequal with the constitution and supplanting state law.

One would think that well negotiated treaties, agreed to by the President and 2/3rds of the Senate would not be much of a concern.   One would think wrong. (more…)

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