Our new Sen. Mike Lee demonstrates contempt for the voters' intelligence and an ideologue's willingness to tell any lie, or omit any fact, to advance his ideology. Last week, Lee posted a lecture on his YouTube page in which he claims, based on the 1918 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Hammer v. Dagenhart, that federal laws prohibiting child labor are unconstitutional.

Since Lee claims to be an expert on constitutional law, one must assume that he knows that his pet decision was expressly overruled in 1941 in United States v. Darby Lumber Co., and that the court expressly ruled that under the commerce clause, Congress has the authority to prohibit exploitation of child labor.

Why would Lee fail to mention that? Does he think no one else knows? Does he, or do you, think his election qualifies him to be the final arbiter on the validity of decisions of the Supreme Court?

Or in his zeal for promoting his anti-government ideology does Lee really think the big corporations, in the pursuit of now record-breaking profit margins, should be allowed to exploit child labor?

Wayne Gillman

Bountiful