Posted on 07/09/2022 4:56:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Left continues to push a narrative that the SCOTUS is compromised by "conservatives" -- let's set the record straight.
In the exposition of laws, and even of Constitutions, how many important errors may be produced by mere innovations in the use of words and phrases, if not controlled by a recurrence to the original and authentic meaning attached to them! - James Madison, fourth president of the United States, often called the “Father of the Constitution” (1826)
Immediately after the recent SCOTUS rulings on abortion and the EPA, many voices from the Left immediately labeled the justices “extremist,” undemocratic, and dangerous. They claimed the SCOTUS made a “substantially conservative” turn, because in addition to “originalist” Justice Clarence Thomas, Donald Trump’s three appointees also adhered to the same philosophy of interpretation. Chuck Schumer fumed:
This MAGA, repressive, extremist Supreme Court is intent on setting America back decades, if not centuries.… to a time when robbers [sic] barons and corporate elites have complete power and average citizens have no say.
Kamala Harris accused the Court of telling women what to do with their own bodies. Elizabeth Warren, presumably representing her tribe’s privileged position at Harvard, tweeted that the SCOTUS decided that “it’s more important to protect guns than to protect women.” Writer Steve Brodner stated, “robed extremists” made a “deadly decision” to “sacrifice women.” AOC, not to be outdone on inflammatory rhetoric, wrote that with these SCOTUS rulings, “We are witnessing a judicial coup in process,” – and so on.
In fact, nothing could be less extremist or more democratic than these SCOTUS rulings. There is even an important equivocation, based on a misunderstanding of the meaning of the word “originalist,” in the accusation that the current SCOTUS is a “conservative” court.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The democRATs don’t like to have their power limited because they are power hungry. They just can’t explain it that way. They twist the language to make it seem like those wanting limits are the ones that are power hungry.
Yes. Every time a decent politician gives freedom back to individuals, the Left denounce it as “fascism”.
Yes,and they can’t say.. in plain English ..what they really have planned for America..and it has nothing to do with the USC.
Other than it’s in their way.
The whole point of overturning Roe v. Wade in the manner that the Supreme Court did was to try to educate these fools into understanding the way the LIVING Constitution works FOR THE PEOPLE. If the changing nature of the the culture changes, then the mechanism is to change the Constitution in the Legislative Branch, by a vote of the people. Not the other way around.
Conservative Presidents nominate originalist judges, and Leftist Presidents nominate activist judges. This causes the judicial system to gravitate to the left over time.
Conservative Presidents must also nominate activists. We must play by the same rules as the Left, or there will never be a truce.
No. We must deal in Truth not lies. I don't want any activist judges only true and honest ones who know and understand the Constitution. They are hard to find but they are there. What is broken on our side is the selection of these quality of judges.
Natural born citizen = born here of citizen parents with no other nationality.
Not shocking- what woukd be is if a liberal was honest
They aren’t widely known as “deceptocrats” for nothing. Fake people doing fake things and being paid far too well to be professional liars. Hey! I just described the legacy MSM, CNN, and MSNBC too!
Exactly, even though Republican presidents have made some notoriously bad choices. Blackmun and Souter come to mind. Roberts is a coin flip. And even Reagan put Sandra Day O'Conner on the court.
Originalism is a synonym of Conservatism given that both words actually mean what they mean.
Supreme Court is intent on setting America back decades, if not centuries.… to a time when robbers [sic] barons and corporate elites have complete power and average citizens have no say.
What a perfect description of America 2000-2022.
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