[farmer18th]

The threat of Executive Nullification of Judicial Edicts is an Essential part of the separation and balance of powers.

Hugh Hewitt just denied this again on his show, and claimed Jefferson has nothing valid to say about the constitution. (Of course, Jefferson wasn't one of the framers, but I thought it interesting that Hugh regards himself closer to the intent than our third president and the writer of the Declaration.)

This guy is a perfect example of the fatal fracture within conservatism--good boys who follow the rules, even if it takes them right into the cattle cars.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Yeah, HH just keeps saying 'you're wrong, you're wrong, 200 years of precedent, blah, blah'. No specifics. Those '200 years of precedent' since then are the problem. We give specifics and he blows it off. Lincoln ignored the courts on habeas for the duration, Jackson ignored the court in 1815 when he threw a judge in jail under martial law, and again as President. Marbury v. Madison came out the way it did because Marshall knew he couldn't order Jefferson to deliver the commissions. They are all on the money. Federalist papers arguments - not dispositive. On and on.

Jeb could have been impeached in Florida and come to the 2008 Republican Convention carried in on the shoulders of conservatives. After three years of the facts coming out, today's polls would mean jack.

We have a majority of Republicans on SCOTUS, SCOFLA, the 11th Circuit (7-5), Judge Greer himself. What does that get you? You put a Republican on the bench and half the time he's one of "them". That's what you get when you put "center-right" with "hard left".