Reply #33: I Thought The Roberts Connection Interesting [View All]

[iamjoy]

I actually thought about this last week, that we needed to use the Hurricane Katrina tragedy to point out the flaws with a strict constructionist theory.

Lakoff didn't go into this kind of detail, but it occurred to me that under a true strict constructionist theory, it would not have taken five days for help to arrive in NOLA. Help never would have arrived, because the federal government would not have seen it as is Constitutional duty (or right, for that matter) to intervene. Congress would not have moved any money for disaster aid because such an expenditure would be unconstitutional.