Sinners In the Hands of Anthony Kennedy

Red State ^ | March 28, 2012 | Erick Erickson

[ConservativeDude]

Put bluntly, the constitutional integrity of our republic has been ceded to one man in the third branch of our federal government.”

I have often said this. And it is worse than that: this one man was appointed decades ago; he has never run for any office - not even City Council. Many don’t know his name and of those that do know his name wouldn’t recognize him if he were to talk into the room. And he gets to serve for life.

This is a problem.

[stayathomemom]

Yes, I know some will think of this as being radical...

I go off on musings like this also, so I don't think it is radical. When Obama said that he wanted to make it so that we didn't have to spend so much on gas, rather than saying he wanted the price of gas to be lower, my first thought was that they would start to dictate how close you had to live to your place of work or impose severe fines if your commute was too long. I really would not put that past these people.

[MissMagnolia]

Yes, I know some will think of this as being radical,

No, you are making perfect sense. This is exactly what will happen. You can argue that everything we do affects our health & therefore the government will have the ability to control everything. When the government gives you money, there are strings attached. When healthcare is via the government, there will be major strings. As an example, think of the Leftist agenda ... population control being one of them .... we will eventually end up like China with a one child law, if you are even able to have children .... It boggles my mind the folks that think Obamacare is just wonderful .... we should all be in the streets demanding that it be repealed & ready to fight for this if necessary because it is going to change our lives to that of government slaves and America as it was founded will be no more.

[Hostage]

You forgot the already proposed gun control by the AMA in the name of public health. It’s not an extrapolation, it’s a fact.

[Lady Lucky]

Re teachers: It tends to make me think there are more of them ‘in there,’ than we know and if possible we should seek them out and find ways to support them.

Support them in what?

[StonyBurk]

IMO EVERY ACT committed by Obama has been manifest in calculated prosecution of his Goal to fundamentally change America. To make the USA a reflection of the Failed soviet Communist system— and no more exceptional —nor capable of
world leadership than any of the European systems now threatened by Islamic Caliphate. IF Obama can succeed in his “change” with the help of a Congress that prepared for his ascendancy to the “highest Office” one he is NOT Constitutionally qualified to hold. With help of a Judiciary that acted as if defending a college chum was more important than supporting the US Constitution. with help from the “useful idiots” who were perhaps beguiled by the opportunity to be part of the historic vote for our “first Black President” and his promise of “change” Just how is that hopey changey thingy working out for you America? As his community organizers whip up the masses in their chants “No Justice—No Peace”

[ALPAPilot]

Congress has ceased using its constitutional powers, as most of them have become careerists more interested in re-election than in exercising power. It's just easier for Congress to pass the buck to the executive and (especially) judicial branches on tough issues.

But that doesn't change where the Constitution quite intentionally put the power, in Congress.

That is what congress did with health care, they ceded their legislative power to the executive "rule making authority."

I'll quote from William Blackstone's Commentaries, a book every lawyer had to know by heart to be admitted to the bar before the progressive era.

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty. The magistrate many enact tyrannical laws, and execute them in a tyrannical manner, since he is possessed, in quality of dispenser of justice, with all the power which he as legislator thinks proper to give himself. But, where the legislative and executive authority are in distinct hands, the former will take care not to entrust the latter with so large a power, as may tend to the subversion of it's own independence, and therewith of the liberty of the subject.

[ripley]

“...a sign that our system is broken in a fundamental way...”

Not broken. Subverted.

IMHO

[sportutegrl]

Mr. Obama, for the first time in modern history, took a direct shot at the Supreme Court in his State of the Union address, when he slammed the justices for their recent campaign finance reform decision. Six of them looked on — including the author of the opinion, key swing vote Anthony Kennedy — while Democrats jumped up to whoop and holler.

Remember this? I wouldn't worry about Kennedy. But this proves that Obama is stupid. Making an enemy of the USSC swing vote for no good reason.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Article] Likewise, one cannot read the constitution and understand how a Congress of limited powers can compel any person to purchase a product he does not want.

Actually, one can -- because in Article I, the Constitution does that when it gives Congress the responsibility and power of directing how the Militia should be armed and trained, and the States the naming of the Militia's officer corps.

That may be the only instance of Congress receiving the power to direct citizens to purchase equipment (spelt out in the Militia Acts of 1792 and 1795). The Militia Act(s), however, did not penalize men too poor to own a firelock, but made alternative provisions for their arming, however humbly.

[ConservativeDude]

i didn’t realize Kennedy was the author! oops!

[Salamander]

“Yesterday the left descended into madness.”

That must’ve been a remarkably short step down.