Can you sum it up for me?

How many times does Schumer refer to himself?

Justice Janice Rodgers Brown
 

One would think. Or hope.

Just confirm this lightweight and lets get to the meatier battle over Gonzales.

Justice Janice Rodgers Brown
 

Just those hundreds of years of common law. Oh, and common sense.*

* Which, of course, has no business in a con law debate.

Ninth Amendment
 

I thought you were saying that you just feel/know the right to supply married people with contraceptives exists, regardless of if or where it might be in the constitution. I was just saying that I would find a decision saying just that more honest than what Griswold is. A bunch of Judges arguing where the right is found is not a convincing decision.

I mean, if it were clear we could just read a copy of the Constitution and see it. Instead, you have to read the several parts of Griswold and do a head count of where every Judge sees some of the right.

Justice Janice Rodgers Brown
 

Hank, could you send sebby your Griswold primer? I found it most helpful.

Justice Janice Rodgers Brown
 

I’m not arguing within the confines of any case. I’m not playing some dorky law school game here. You can all circle jerk over that crap if you like. All I’m saying is that, from a common law and common sense perspective, we clearly have a right to privacy, and the issue of where that right stems from is technical and irrelevant.

Justice Janice Rodgers Brown
 

Where in the common law does the right to privacy exist? I'm not asking for a constitutional amendment, I'm asking for a case cite from, say the 1700s in England.

Justice Janice Rodgers Brown
 

I just reread it.

How could studying that case not send 50% of law students heading for business school?

Justice Janice Rodgers Brown
 

A few of us idiots did business school first. . .

ETA: And yet, I was tempted to do it again.

Justice Janice Rodgers Brown
 

I think the very point of the ninth is not to ennumerate them, but I can give some examples that I think 90% or more of the delegates of the constitutional conventions would have viewed as fundamental rights:

The right to own property, and to buy and sell property you own;

The right to will and inherit (this one goes back to the Magna Carta);

The right of habeas corpus (the constitution limits the infringement or suspension of the right, but does not grant the right - so where does the right come from?); and

The right to enter into marriage (mentioned in Griswold and now the topic of another little debate; there's a bit in the Magna Carta relating to marriage as well, but they still might have let the King choose a bride without her consent back then).

Channelling
 

Don't be absurd, you strict constructionist small minded idiot. I dont care about actual cases or cites. It's common sense!!! Something in which you bozos are in short supply.

Justice Janice Rodgers Brown
 

They also had no problem banning marriages of a type.

Channelling
 

Those old English cases are tedious. Cut sebby some slack on that one.

Channelling
 

does the advent of sperm banks render a transfer of Blackacre "to my children," void under the Rule against perpetuities?