Judge John Roberts

On soon-to-be Justice John Roberts, Dr. Jack Wheeler says, "[The] stakes go far beyond Roe v. Wade. Smart liberals know the entire gigantic edifice of Federal bureaucratic control over our lives, which they have been painstakingly building since the 1930s, has as its foundation one thin reed of six Constitutional words tortured beyond recognition. Invest those words with normal recognizable meaning, and thousands of Federal laws and regulations are defunct."

"This is the conservatives’ and the libertarians’ dream, and the liberals’ nightmare."

It all revolves around the Interstate Commerce Clause. Specifically "those six words."

Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution is known as the Commerce Clause, empowering Congress to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” That portion of it, the authority to “regulate Commerce among the several States,” is called the Interstate Commerce Clause. These six words have been the primary means used by liberals to grow Federal Governmental power – starting with Wickard v. Filburn

"The Washington Post, in a July 25 editorial, criticized Roberts’ “too narrow view of Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce.” The liberals’ tyrannical secret is that any limit on this power is too narrow for them, claims Wheeler.

The WaPo went on to say that the Interstate Commerce Clause was, “The constitutional backbone of the modern regulatory state.”

Wheeler feels, "the Commerce Clause as interpreted since Wickard v. Filburn is the critical vulnerability of the liberal Washington bureaucracy and the liberal interest groups that support it. Without the mangled interpretation of those six words, "thousands of Federal laws and regulations are defunct."

"If there is one thing anyone who has clerked for Justice Rehnquist can tell you, he is passionate about restricting the overreach of the Commerce Clause. This passion is drilled into their heads. John Roberts was one of those clerks."

"Roberts will be a Fabian Constitutionalist. He will apply the actual words and literal meaning of the Constitution incrementally. His will be a slow progression, a steady dismantlement of liberal perversions of our Constitution. He is a revolutionary who will take his time to complete the task."

"His will be a legacy of Constitutional government and increased prosperity (by getting the government and its regulations out of the way) for our children and grandchildren. One of the great advantages conservatives have over liberals is all we need is a straightforward interpretation of the actual meaning of the Constitution. Liberals need penumbras and emanations and invented distortions."

"All we need is someone who respects the Constitution enough to adjudicate on the basis of what it actually says."

And we may just have that in John Roberts.