I really look forward to reading by what right Congress keeps naming local post offices.
Ok, I.8.7 could be argued to implicitly give them the right, as part of the establishing of such, but you gotta be careful with those "implicit" rights these politicians keep assuming for themselves.
I, for one, would like to hear Scalia's take on the issue, after the new Congress explains in the next such bill just by what constitutional right they presume to go around naming post offices.
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