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Law school is a mad, mad, mad world

My Con Law exam was this afternoon. I went to sleep early this evening.

I just woke up, and thought I was having a nightmare. But I wasn't. In my dreams, I had managed to piece together (through the fog of the wine and Tylenol PM that I took to get me to sleep) that the Tenth Amendment only serves as a bar to the commandeering of state resources when Congress acts pursuant to the powers that come before the Tenth (and possibly only the Commerce Clause). However, it almost certainly doesn't apply to powers under 14th Amendment section 5, which is the authority behind a RFRA-like statute where I applied a Printz analysis on the exam this afternoon.

Aargh. Not only did I know that, but I really knew that. My heart was pounding so hard I couldn't go back to sleep.

So now it is 2 AM, and I am sitting up and working on my Public International law take-home exam, which is on (redacted for honor code purposes), which is an area where I skipped some of the reading in the hopes it would not be the topic of the exam. But it is. So, here I sit, reading my PIL textbook.

I can't wait to go back to the working world.

Full post as published by Traditional Notions on December 04, 2007 (boomark / email).