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@nemobis@mamot.fr
2026-02-20 21:16:04
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How cute: #JusticeGorsuch helpfully compiled a list of recent cases where #SCOTUS rulings did not follow common sense (or "commonsense principles of communication").

Congress au-
thorized the FDA to regulate “drugs,” which Congress de-
fined expressly and broadly as “ ‘articles (other than food)
intended to affect the structure or any function of the
body.’ ” Id., at 126. As a matter of common sense, nicotine
qualifies as a “drug” based on this statutory definition, as it
might even as a matter of everyday speech. West Virginia,
597 U. S., at 721–722 (noting the “colorable textual basis”
for the executive branch’s interpretation in Brown & Wil-
liamson). St…