It isn’t especially onerous for the Supreme Court to operate with eight Justices, as we know from earlier vacancies and recusals, note Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro [Wall Street Journal] History of election-year SCOTUS nominations and confirmations doesn’t prove what some liberals imagine it does [Roger Pilon; Jonathan Adler and follow-up]
Plus: Wouldn’t it be nice if every Supreme Court nominee were asked to name something he or she thinks is a good idea yet unconstitutional, or, conversely a bad idea that is constitutional? [Trevor Burrus]
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I’m game:
Good thing that is unconstitutional: the line item veto (it might help get rid of these omnibus bills).
Bad thing that is constitutional: laws that regulate small intra-state transactions (under the commerce clause, e.g., the transactions in Wickard v. Fillmore).
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