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Op-Ed: Five Supreme Court cases to watch that could make history
LATimes ^ | October 4, 2015

Posted on 10/04/2015 5:32:27 AM PDT by SMGFan

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To: SMGFan

As far as the death penalty cases the current rules are two fold: (1) “In declining states the leadership intuitively chooses the most harmful course of action:”(2) “there comes a time in the history of every people when they become so pathologically soft and tender that they actually side with those elements of their society that harms them; i.e. criminals.”-F. Nietzsche


21 posted on 10/04/2015 6:58:06 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Jacquerie

Yep.

At least until the New Deal, the country understood that cultural changes like Abolition and Prohibition needed Constitutional amendment. We are fortunate to have made 140 or so years.


22 posted on 10/04/2015 7:02:48 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: mosaicwolf

Do we have a Governor out there with any balls?
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No. The federal government has confiscated them and placed them in a lock box for safekeeping. Can’t have governors and states acting like they have sovereignty.


23 posted on 10/04/2015 7:15:09 AM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: Theodore R.

Some do but don’t dicount the effect of propaganda. Yes many of the masses are voting for this but they wouldn’t if they knew the truth.


24 posted on 10/04/2015 7:28:29 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: jjotto
Yes, all the great social changes imposed by DC should have been considered by the people in their sovereign capacity.

The national labor relations act, the alphabet New Deal make-work agencies, Social Security, voting and fair housing acts, Medicare/Medicade, abortion, environmental regulation, school regulation, prayer in schools and probably many more momentous issues should have been handled by constitutional amendment if at all, and not through a corrupted political process.

25 posted on 10/04/2015 7:41:07 AM PDT by Jacquerie ( To shun Article V is to embrace tyranny.)
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To: SMGFan

Obama is pumping Stupid Gas into the Supreme Court as part of the work being done on the building


26 posted on 10/04/2015 8:02:14 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SMGFan; AuH2ORepublican

I believe the Grover Cleveland admin was the last time (and hopefully remains the last time) a GOP Senate faced a democrat Supreme Court nominee.

Chuck Grassley could kill an Obama nominee in committee.


27 posted on 10/04/2015 8:26:09 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Bushbacker1

“Yup! The country is being run by 9 nuelected judges.”

One wonders if they’re being manipulated by research done by Progressive operatives.

Just saying.

IMHO


28 posted on 10/04/2015 8:34:30 AM PDT by ripley
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To: precisionshootist

no, the constitution offers up a way to get rid of activist judges...

the house has say over the courts, districts, and can impeach judges at will..

they have never even thought about it...

the betrayal here is in the house, and not the constitution


29 posted on 10/04/2015 9:16:01 AM PDT by joe fonebone (gay people do not bother me.... fags do...)
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To: SMGFan

The cases will be decided by two factors:
1. What does the greatest damage to the people; and
2. What is the stupidest reason for the decision.

Little Johnny Blackmailed and his band of mental midgets can make decisions; but they cannot enforce it if we the people defy them.


30 posted on 10/04/2015 9:20:21 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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