And if Ben Bernanke IS running for office, but they make the same ruling, in an obvious breach of their own rules?
The simple fact is that by allowing the federal government (via the supreme court) SOLE discretion in deciding what is and isn't constitutional, you make the constitution irrelevant. There's no sense in even having one. The federal government has absolutely unlimited power. This is OBVIOUSLY not what the founders intended. They wouldn't have wasted all those weeks precisely drafting a "charter of negative liberties" (as Obama calls it) if they really just wanted it to say "the federal government has all power to do whatever it wants to the states and the people in all cases whatsoever"
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