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To: From The Deer Stand

Last night Roberts said something like “the role of the court is to make statutes fit the Constitution”, which I’m pretty sure is not the way they started out in 1793.


2 posted on 06/29/2012 6:43:19 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow

If there is a reasonable interpretation of a statute that is consistant with the Constitution, then the statute is normally given that interpretation, but when you have to torture the statute beyond recognition to make it fit the Constitution then you have judges that have become policy makers pure and simple.


4 posted on 06/29/2012 6:50:43 AM PDT by NavVet ("You Lie!")
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