A Stitch in Haste

As a gay blogger/blawger who must endlessly endure hearing how mob rule the democratic process (as opposed to, um, the plain language of the Constitution) is the source of all government power, my heart goes out to all those who would have benefited from medical marijuana but who now can't because, yet again, an (undeniably) activist Congress has decided that some basic rights should be subject to a majority vote while the (allegedly) "activist" Supreme Court decides that the Constitution only means what it's convenient to mean and engorges itself on the Jurisprudence of Sorta Kinda.

SCOTUSblog has background and links to the decision.

Libertarians have lost Raich. They have lost Lingle and Johanns. They have lost Caballes and every other Fourth Amendment case in recent memory. They will lose Rumsfeld v. FAIR and they will probably be completely trounced in Kelo. And still the mob wants even less judicial independence and more laws, more laws, more laws.

It's dusk in America.

Noteworthy thoughts at Pejmanesque, Hit & Run (times two), Crime & Federalism, Dispatches, Half Sigma, Coyote Blog, Modulator and Where the Dolphins Play.

UPDATE: One of the lead plaintiffs has publicly declared her intent to defy the law. I salute her, but let's hope we don't have any "Elian" moments if the feds decide to go after her.