NY Times Rehnquist obit

pettyfog · Sep 5, 2005

Probably as good as any that could be written, from my view:
Linda Greenhouse

capsulated:

He staked his ground early in the debate over the boundary between state and federal authority. His majority opinion in a 1976 case, National League of Cities v. Usery, invalidated the application of Federal minimum wage and hour requirements to employees of state and local governments. While a narrow majority overturned that decision, over Justice Rehnquist's dissent, nine years later in Garcia v. San Antonio Transit, the 1976 opinion had the important effect of reviving interest in the 10th Amendment. That amendment, previously one of the most obscure provisions of the Bill of Rights, reserves to the states or "to the people" any powers not explicitly given elsewhere in the Constitution to the federal government.
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In other words; holding true to the framers' concept of a FEDERAL government.

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