Isn’t it ironic that conservatives – who used to embrace the notion of constitutionally limited powers of government, until they got hold of the whip – should fall into the same statist thinking that Scalia did in his dissent? The protection of individual liberty is SUPPOSED to make it more difficult for governments to act. Military commanders, police, and other practitioners of statist force are SUPPOSED to have their hands tied when dealing with the people they like to pretend it is their purpose to protect!

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