Posted on 03/25/2014 9:03:08 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Kennedy is irrelevant...all they need is Roberts, and he’s already in the bag.
I think I’ll change my vacation plans to the last week of the court calendar. I’m tired of this crap.
Roberts should resign for reasons of “health.” It’s profoundly dishonorable for him to allow himself to be blackmailed on every issue this way.
“Kennedy is irrelevant...all they need is Roberts, and hes already in the bag.”
I know why you say that, but why do you think he’s turned out so different than anticipated?
Why are Muslims EXEMPTED? Isn’t it because of their religion? Can’t Hobby Lobby et al claim they should be exempt for the same reason?
The government lawyer is correct. Corporations have no religious freedom, because they are creations of the government - not God.
Human beings have religious freedom. Human beings working together in a business have religious freedom.
But a corporation? That’s a paper person - and that’s what all these laws address.
Watching the entire population of the country refuse to grapple with this difference and constantly get smacked by the very thing they refuse to acknowledge is depressing as hell.
Blackmail, or he was a Trojan Horse....
Either way, there is NO logic to his ruling upholding Obamacare...NONE.
I get what your saying but can you explains Citizens United then in this context where freedom of speech is accorded to corporate personhood?
Citizens United Sept 2009:
“Chief Justice Roberts disagreed: A large corporation, just like an individual, has many diverse interests. Justice Antonin Scalia said most corporations are indistinguishable from the individual who owns them.
Yes they sure can. I dont’ know if they’re going to get a favorable ruling though. I have no faith in the SCOTUS. We’re beyond politics now I think.
That was in 2009, before he turned.
These are the guys who’ve been complaining that “wingnuts” were misinterpreting Obie’s “you didn’t make that” speech, right.
before he was turned
One of the most successful lines of attack against these Constitutionally enumerated rights has been to restrict their coverage in various incremental ways. Examples of this are rife... when head-on attempts to eliminate the right to bear arms came to grief, the incrementalists went after particular catagories of firearms, particular types of gun accessories, particular types of ammunition, etc.
Another attack of this type has been to restrict the venues in which the First Amendment could operate. This started (it can be argued) with the famous "shouting fire in a crowded theater" formulation of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck v. United States.
In the last few decades, the left has succeeded in setting up precedents for the idea that the Freedom of Speech -- arguably the most revered of all the rights we are guaranteed by the Constitution -- ceases to operate the moment a person passes through the doors of a business. A group of businessmen gives up their right to speak freely in the public square, apparently because of the possibility that their financial means might make it possible for them to purchase a particularly powerful megaphone.
The restriction of this freedom does not apply to the management of labor unions, or of large philanthropies, or (it goes without saying) to members of the various media organizations and members of the government.
In its decision in the Citizens United case, the Supreme Court dealt a blow to this back-door movement to restrict our freedoms, but the Left is not giving up. They feel an instinctive drive to control speech in the public square, at least when that speech comes from directions that they think will inconvenience them.
There was nothing BUT logic. Cold, hard, rigid, legal logic. Which the ENTIRE country has refused to study.
Because hey, slander is so much easier than actually learning something.
One Stone, Two Powers: How Chief Justice Roberts Saved America
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