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Might it happen? Slaughterhouse overruled? | SCOTUSblog

published 932 days, 1 hour, 4 minutes ago posted by http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/http://jonnyboats.wordpress.com/ 932 days, 22 hours, 41 minutes ago
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:22:29 AM GMT Monday, July 20, 2009 1:44:45 PM GMT

For generations, lawyers, judges and constitutional scholars across the spectrum have debated whether the time would come for the Supreme Court to cast aside one of history’s most controversial rulings — the 5-4 decision in 1873 in the Slaughterhouse Cases.  In that ruling, the dissenters claimed — and modern critics still complain — that the Court had made the Fourteenth Amendment’s Privileges and Immunities Clause into “a vain and idle enactment.” Despite a brief revival of the Clause as a c...

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