The late Justice Antonin Scalia, in a 2013 interview with New York Magazine, said that "[a] lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional."

Stupid may be too strong a word to describe the Dodd-Frank Act's expansion of the SEC's ability to use its in-house courts to obtain multi-million-dollar judgments. But, that expansion was a very bad idea, regardless of whether it is constitutional.

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Originally published by The Hill.

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