... regulations. He set into motion deregulation of the banking industry which caused major problems because federally chartered savings and loans that had earlier been required to place their loans in home mortgages, (a safe investment) could now invest their money more freely in riskier ventures. Many gambled on questionable commercial ventures and the S&L industry went unsupervised. As a result, many went out of ... their death penalty laws. In 1976 death penalty statues were upheld generally by the Court's decision in Gregg vs. Georgia. In 1995, in U.S. v. Lopez the Court struck down th...

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