The possibility of five or six Democratic justices allows one to imagine what might be done in other areas. Might the Court find a constitutional right to education and conclude that disparities in school funding violate the Constitution? Might the Court find that the racial injustices in the criminal-justice system violate equal protection?
The first would mean the Constitution has been totally perverted to a document conveying what are called Positive Rights, i.e., the right for free stuff at tax payer expense. The 2nd would mean what is called disparate impact could be a basis to overturn any law that somehow appears to have a negative effect based on race as unconstitutional. If those types of rulings come down and the GOP controls Congress than impeachment is in order.
It will mean an end to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Liberals will be inventing rights where none existed before and we’ll all have to pay for them.
The reason we oppose positive rights isn’t because we think that they’re bad ideas - it’s because the concept is self-contradictory.
Our Constitution is already gone.
But liberal court would let Democrat politicians give up all pretense of acting like they care about the Constitution.
SCOTUS is already well to the left of “liberal”.
Guess that'll show us....
Chemerensky was likely under consideration for SCOTUS, he is reported to be liberal, but also fair and not an ideologue.
TRANSLATION: Instead of the US feral government being limited to the powers enumerated in the US Constitution, its powers encompass everything that is not enumerated in the US Constitution too.
My view is the Court is considered Conservative but we have lost at every turn from Obama care IE Roberts to Homosexual Marriage IE Kennedy. Losing this election will turn the court liberal for a long time, Ginsburg will probably die on the pot and Kennedy has spoke of retirement, so look at it like you will be replacing two conservatives if you can call Kennedy conservative and one hack job liberal
If/when Garland is confirmed I will consider him a “Republican appointee” because it will be only by their grace that he is confirmed. At the point, the GOP will be dead to me (they’re on life support now).
The growth of the State, which is the same as the growth of the progressive-left movement has one source - money.
Our fiat, unbacked, centrally planned money supply supports centralization and the state in all its forms through massive debt and movement of money through favored channels. Would you imagine that our Federal Reserve has an indirect hand in abortion or religious rights? Yes, it absolutely does, through maintaining the power of the Federal Government.
Just because a Supreme Court justice was appointed by a Republican president doesn’t mean it was a good choice.
But a court with 6-8 appointed by a Democrat... about as pleasant as surviving a nuclear war.
They are. They have been.