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To: allmendream

This country does have unelected tyrants, sad to say; those being activist judges that don’t interpret the Constitution according to what is written there, creating “penumbrae” out of thin air and worse. How do we get rid of people like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who openly hate the Constitution and have said so? and how could people in the past gotten rid of judges like Earl Warren? Checks and balances out the window.


44 posted on 02/29/2012 8:06:53 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Do you know so little of the Constitution?

Congress can impeach judges - even Supreme Court Justices. That they have not chosen to do so is not an indication that there is not a check and a balance on SCOTUS legal interpretation.

If your beef with an elected Republican form of government is that there are unelected judges - do you think ELECTED judges would decide the law more justly - or would they base their decisions on what was popular?

Do you think judges deciding the law based upon popular opinion would be a good thing?


45 posted on 02/29/2012 9:13:45 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: Olog-hai
This country does have unelected tyrants, sad to say; those being activist judges that don’t interpret the Constitution according to what is written there, creating “penumbrae” out of thin air and worse. How do we get rid of people like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who openly hate the Constitution and have said so? and how could people in the past gotten rid of judges like Earl Warren? Checks and balances out the window.
The term you are thinking of is "Kritocracy", rule by judges.

55 posted on 03/05/2012 6:47:40 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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