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Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact— and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves
Not a threat, a fait accompli.
I’m thinking Scalia might do us all a bigger favor by leaving the Court and writing a tell-all book about what really goes on in there.
The least legitimate of the three branches of government is going to be the one to bring down the country. What have we done?!
I would suggest we dissolve our system of government and start over, but there’s no system that can protect us from the self-destruction of liberalism.
A Piece of Paper?
Rogue Court
It’s not 9 but 5.
Perhaps it should be a two thirds majority decision?
This is a naked judicial claim to legislative—indeed, super-legislative—power; a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government.
A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy.
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Is there a reason not to immediately push for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as one man and one woman?
They will be on much firmer ground than the gay marriage people, being able to point that polygamous marriage is recognized in many (Muslim) countries around the world, and for the US to refuse to recognize polygamous marriages legally performed overseas is discriminatory.
After that will be lawsuits striking down age limits on marriage. A marriage between a 40 year old man and a 10 year old girl, legally performed in Saudi, must be recognized in the US, otherwise it is discriminatory.
The slippery slope is now greased.
For the last 7 years, we’ve been nothing but subjects that are to be ruled.
The reasons why marriage is a fundamental right became more clear and compelling from a full awareness and understanding of the hurt that resulted from laws barring interracial unions.
Fundamental Transformation, complete.
Thank you for speaking the truth, Justice Scalia
And of course, with a change in Presidents, the kneecapping of the Court's credibility could accelerate. It's too bad, because sometimes you actually need a Supreme Court. But not to write your laws or your grocery list or to name your children, or whatever other powers the Majority in this decision hopes to acquire.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
What next? will the supreme Nine redesign the camel? so it can marry humans? does Hump Day have new meaning?
Just one more sad day for the nation, tho millions cheer..
a slap in the face of the one institution that made it possible for civilization to climb out of the bushes and mud.. create a more stable environment for the populace..
only to fall prey to selfish ‘different’ people who care not a wit over their final judgment.. or the havoc it will visit on all of us.