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Sowell: Supreme Hypocrisy
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| March 29, 2016
| Thomas Sowell
Posted on 03/28/2016 11:08:09 AM PDT by jazusamo
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posted on
03/28/2016 11:08:09 AM PDT
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jazusamo
To: abigail2; Amalie; American Quilter; arthurus; awelliott; Bahbah; bamahead; Battle Axe; ...
When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns.Dr. Sowell nailed it!
*PING*
Thomas Sowell
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posted on
03/28/2016 11:10:45 AM PDT
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jazusamo
(When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
First of all, the "advice and consent" provision of the Constitution is a restriction on the President's power, not an imposition of a duty on the Senate.(em/mine)
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posted on
03/28/2016 11:20:33 AM PDT
by
yoe
To: jazusamo
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posted on
03/28/2016 11:24:27 AM PDT
by
Mase
(Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
To: yoe
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posted on
03/28/2016 11:25:29 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo; Lurking Libertarian; Perdogg; JDW11235; Clairity; Spacetrucker; Art in Idaho; GregNH; ...
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posted on
03/28/2016 11:26:27 AM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
To: jazusamo
Great article. This bears repeating:
the "advice and consent" provision of the Constitution is a restriction on the President's power, not an imposition of a duty on the Senate
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posted on
03/28/2016 11:29:29 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: jazusamo
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Dr. Sowell call a supreme court justice a “whore,” before.
Not saying he isn’t one; just saying it seems pretty strong for him.
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posted on
03/28/2016 11:34:11 AM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: dsc
I was surprised as well and agree with him.
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posted on
03/28/2016 11:38:48 AM PDT
by
jazusamo
(When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
"When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns." Dr. Sowell nailed it!
LOL. He could have said only that. Says it all. We could call it a Scalia-ism.
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posted on
03/28/2016 12:03:26 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
To: jazusamo
Let’s be honest. Judges are politicians. They belong to political parties. Our Founders weren’t prescient enough to envision this two-party system we have, a system in which justice, constitution, tradition, simply are irrelevant.
If you put a liberal question to liberal judges, they will approve the liberal position and justify it with a lot of fluff.
We seriously need to term limit judges, and I mean short terms. One senatorial length term of 6 years at each level of the federal judiciary. After that they go back to chasing ambulances.
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posted on
03/28/2016 12:03:38 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Prayer for Victory is the ONLY way to support the troops!)
To: jazusamo
Don’t listen to Sowell; he’s a Cruz supporter.
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posted on
03/28/2016 12:07:16 PM PDT
by
Agnes Heep
(Trump 2016: Statism that WORKS for US!!!)
To: Agnes Heep
Yep, lukewarm now but ice cold at the start. :)
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posted on
03/28/2016 12:14:27 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns: Thomas Sowell)
To: Agnes Heep
Dont listen to Sowell; hes a Cruz supporter. So now all his opinions on topics unrelated to Republican candidate preference are to be ignored, opposed and/or censored? Just because of his audacity in disagreeing with you on who is the best Republican candidate? Let me know when I should take all the Sowell books I own to your official book burning event.
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past; xzins
"When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns. If judges confined themselves to acting like judges, instead of legislating from the bench, creating new "rights" out of thin air that are nowhere to be found in the Constitution, maybe Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominees would not be such bitter and ugly ideological battles.
We could call it a Scalia-ism. I recently saw a video in which Scalia did say exactly that, if in different words.
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posted on
03/28/2016 12:36:04 PM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
I’m certain that term limiting judges is the ONLY way to go in a two party system. Pretending that judges are not partisan is fantastical thinking.
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posted on
03/28/2016 12:55:12 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Prayer for Victory is the ONLY way to support the troops!)
To: xzins
Im certain that term limiting judges is the ONLY way to go in a two party system. Pretending that judges are not partisan is fantastical thinking. Yes, but the fundamental problem is the voters who will tolerate and encourage the nomination/confirmation of quasi-judicial legislators. What difference would it make to replace quasi-judicial legislators, no matter how frequently, with other quasi-judicial legislators?
Such voters delegitimate democracy.
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posted on
03/28/2016 1:19:04 PM PDT
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conservatism_IS_compassion
('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Shakespeare’s Hamlet says, “Get thee to a nunnery.” I read somewhere that “nunnery” in this case meant “brothel.”
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
I see judges role in a perfect world as honorable arbiters of justice and law. They are the supposedly neutral referees to which we take complex disagreements.
When they cease being honorable, you are correct that it doesn’t do much good to replace life-termed dishonorable people with a series of dishonorable people.
But it does a little good. You can at least turn them over and get rid of them.
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posted on
03/28/2016 1:33:09 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Prayer for Victory is the ONLY way to support the troops!)
To: jazusamo
Chief Justice Roberts himself practically repealed the 10th Amendment's limitation on federal power when he wrote the decision that the government could order us all to buy ObamaCare insurance policies. When judges act like whores, they can hardly expect to be treated like nuns. Sowell is a national treasure. It's a tragedy that, when this octogenarian checks out, the President can't nominate, and the Senate can't confirm, his actual (make that real) replacement.
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posted on
03/28/2016 1:49:49 PM PDT
by
stevem
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