Schizoid Man wrote:
Unbelievable but the Supremes (the justices, not the band), at the
urging of the Bush administration, now deem it fit to declare that
federal authority supercedes the states's when it comes to enforcing
drug laws.

IIRC Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia were of the same opinion
regarding the sodomy law.

And I thought a Republican court will always strive to recognize the
individual state's authority. :-)

Presumably, you have not looked at how the individual justices on the
court voted. If you had, you would have noted that the three justices
typically regarded as most "liberal" voted in the majority, while two of
the three most conservative justices dissented.