Posted on 09/05/2014 12:59:42 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Upholding the law as decided by the states? Yeah, total activism!
Anyone who thinks that states do not have the right to define marriage, has never read the Constitution. It’s as simple as that. Posner has about the same integrity as Roland Freisler.
Also funny, that you feel that way without reading his opinion. Even I will reserve judgment before I do so.
“It appears that that is what Posner did (bear in mind, that you are in Federal Appellate Court). You want to change his mind, bring a better lawyer.”
Exactly. We don’t want judges going into their courtrooms having already decided the cases; the opposing counsels make their arguments and the judge decides which position has the most legal merit.
I’ve read the decision and listened to the bulk of the oral arguments, and as much as I hate the decision it’s hard to see how they could have ruled otherwise. The attorneys for Wisconsin and Indiana couldn’t have been less effective if they’d been paid to throw the case; when Posner talks about no rational reason for the law it’s because they were unable to articulate one. Pathetic, but that’s where our ire belongs.
Only the forms, the outer shell of our republic remains. We still have congress, courts, president, electoral college, and other hard features.
Yes, the guts of our republic have been ripped out. It began with the 17th Amendment. Since then, no limiting clause has survived.
The hard tyranny is here, and to condone it, we are expected to dutifully vote every two years.
Gay journalist pushing gay propaganda. Imagine that.
When I think of federal courts, I think of “witty.” Nothing serious, they are jesters and fools.
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