On: DEA authorized to conduct surveillance on protestors

[dantheman]

You mean like how FDR threatened to do that during the new deal, and then the court backed down and let all sorts of unconstitutional stuff through?

When we ended a government of enumerated powers and everything could be done at the federal level without an amendment - great things like the drug war.

[bduerst → dantheman]

FDR packed the court with his own judges when others had retired during his term. That's how he got the New Deal through, not on threats or cowing.