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“Sacred cows are to be kicked, but they rarely can be killed,” writes Richard Posner, chief judge of the seventh federal circuit in Chicago, in the New Republic (August 16). “This one”–the doctrine of judicial review–“certainly cannot be killed. Although the Constitution does not say explicitly that a court can invalidate a statute or any other official act that violates the Constitution, such a power is implicit in the text, and it has been assumed, affirmed, and exercised for the last two hundred years or so. Moreover, there is no movement to repeal it, which anyway would probably require a constitutional amendment. The Supreme Court is unlikely to ‘discover’ that it has been usurping the authority of the other branches of government for two centuries.”
“Increases in cigarette prices would lead a significant number of young adults to quit smoking,” according to a July economic study by John Tauris and Frank Chaloupka (“National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. W7262”). “In addition, policies restricting smoking in private worksites increase the probability of smoking cessation among employed young adult females.”
