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Re:Personal Privacy Is Only One of the Costs of NSA Surveill... by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @01:34PM (#8103531)
> A mischaracterization of Wickard v. Filburn, which is nonetheless one of the worst decisions ever handed down by the Supreme Court - taking an unusual circumstance that obtained during WW@

While, the court process and decisions occurred during WW2, the law and the acts which, under it, created the controversy occurred before US involvement in WW2, it was more about the Great Depression/New Deal than the War.

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Re:Personal Privacy Is Only One of the Costs of NSA Surveill... by anigbrowl on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @02:44PM (#8104117)
You're right, but I have always felt that the urgency of the wartime context tilted the balance of the court's opinion towards an overbroad endorsement of the government's side, and that that tilt has persisted via precedent.

I will go back and reread it to see whether that impression is correct or whether I've imputed my own bias to the court's decision since I read it, but given that I'm generally of a more statist bent than most people here I don't think it's just personal bias.

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