Posted on 06/29/2010 6:43:46 AM PDT by i88schwartz
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on her opinion of how the Supreme Court should view the Constitution.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
The amendment process is the only way to change the Constitution; it is not through a process of “interpretation over time” using judicial fiat and incorrect precedents. She obviously is an advocate of the meaningless “living breathing” Constitution in which each supreme court session becomes a Constitutional convention.
The stupid is strong in this one
Yep the founders intended their conservative document to evolve into some kind of marxist glbt manifesto /s
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” - Thomas Jefferson
Make that atheist commie dyke who hates America and wants to destroy it.
She makes
Sotomayer look like a wise latina!
So Kagan is a “Give Me Five” appointee. All she needs is FIVE votes to amend the constitution!
As I have said for years, the Court gives the Progressives, of both parties, a scape goat.
The court is not Supreme, unless the Congress lets it be. Therein lies the truth.
RINO's have been fooling us for years, may be way to late to wake up. I pray not, but in any case I am old enough that it won't matter much, to me, I will probably die along with the country I love.
Yes, because Free Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Assembly, the Right to Petition , the Right to Self-Defense, Prohibition against Quartering Troops in our homes, Prohibition of Unreasonable Searches and Seizures, Right to Due Process, Prohibition from Self-Incrimination, Prohibition of Double-Jeopardy, Right to Trial by Jury, the Confrontation Clause, Right to a Speedy Trial, Right to a Public Trial, Right to a Jury Trial, Right to Counsel, Prohibition against Excessive Bail, and the Prohibition against Cruel and Unusual Punishment... these are all merely vague notions that doubtless will change over time.
Please, PLEASE, let some Republican have the guts to ask her WHICH of the these rights she thinks should be taken away due to our oh-so-modern-and-enlightened times!
Big surprise here. obama nominated a “living, breathing Constitution” type here.
I would love to see ONE senator explain to her that the Constitution is the foundation of our legal system. If the foundation is wrecked, then there is no legal protection of any of the citizens.
I am afraid that this whole hearing process is just another sham. Hell, this government seated a guy in the White House with questions left unresolved as to whether he is leagally qualified or not.
“I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security.” - James Madison
Where in the Constitution is it written?
Where is it implied?
Make up facts if you must but provide proof and not personal opinion as fact.
Looks to me that Barry Soetoro was able to sneak into the White House himself by-passing the Constitution’s requirements and with Congress’ blessing???
Why dont they do more? Either they’re abject cowards, stupid or in complete agreement w/ Kagan. I pick the later. There is little diff between dems and republicans.
So, we can bring back slavery because enough time has passed since we outlawed it?
The concept of evolution so permeates Humanist liberal legal thinking that it can be stated, without contradiction, that evolution ultimately determines Humanistic liberal legal principles. Man is evolving. Man is becoming. Everything is in flux. Nothing is permanent. There are no absolute legal standards. There are no permanent Ten Commandments; there is no permanent Constitution. And man has become responsible for his social and biological evolution.
Translation - Interpreted by liberals.
And she knows this how?
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