Sunstein: Obama, not courts, should interpret law

WND ^ | 9-18-09 | Aaron Klein

[GeronL]

we have known for a while that something was in their water

[Steve Schulin]

Yale Law Review published an article by Sunstein with the same title as WND cites -- it's freely available at http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/115-9/Sunstein.pdf. I read the first few pages, and find it a refreshing contrast to the wave of "judicial supremicist" thinking that even top GOP executives have embraced in recent years. Romney in Massachusetts, Palin in Alaska, Schwartzenegger in California -- all seem to have bought in to the notion that the executive must view judges' opinions as marching orders. If Sunstein is radical on this, then many of us Freepers would be considered ultra-radical, because we think the President has the obligation to stand up when he disagrees with the opinions issued by courts, including Supreme Court.

For example, I think the Constitution is clear that we're all endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights, including the right to life. I want our President to defend that right, regardless of whether judges think it's a good idea to deny the personhood of an entire category of human beings.

[tet68]

As someone once said of Stalin,
“It isn’t a cult of personality,
it’s a cult of hypocracy.”

[popdonnelly]

This Sunstein person is obviously whacked. No doubt drunk with power. Can you imagine if someone in the Bush Administration had said this? And they kept telling us for eight years that Bush was a would-be dictator. What a bunch of fakers!

[popdonnelly]

“The outcome should instead depend on the commitments and beliefs of the President and those who operate under him”

Does seem Hitlerian.

[Justa]

The Constitution is clear ...that the Executive branch neither authors or interprets law. Those are the respective duties of the Legislative and Judicial branches.

[Overtaxed Patriot]

I see no way around it at this point. War in this country is inevitable. Its just a matter of deciding which target will be first, since there are so many choices.

[Steve Schulin]

Hi Justa - I respectfully disagree. The President is required to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.

[danamco]

They are already doing that by scaring the socks off the judges who throws out all lawsuits about the illegal alien usurper in OUR W.H. when filling suits about his ineligibility as the occupant!!!

[danamco]

His boss agrees by saying our CONSTITUTION is a flawed document, and he is certainly doing his very best trying to prove his is right!!!

[domeika]

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
Since it's a right, I guess I can't lose said job no matter what, so I think I'll just have them direct deposit my check and go on permanent vacation.

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
SWEET! I prefer Armani, and I always wanted to travel the world as my recreation so this will work out fine with my aforementioned vacation plans.

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
I'm not a farmer, but I do have a lawn, so if I plant a tomato plant, and it produces say 30 tomatoes, I think $5,000 per tomater should cover it. Life is good eh?

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
That means my neighbor's tomato crop may not exceed my own. Now I feel all warm, fuzzy, and protected. Thanks uncle Sam Joe!

The right of every family to a decent home;
My interpretation of decent includes 365 bedrooms, 800 bathrooms, 6 pools, 2 libraries, and a private beach, so I can't wait for these rights to kick in.

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
This won't do. I want the right to EXCELLENT medical care. I guess I need to get elected to congress for that.

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
This sounds really good, but the only way to achieve it is by converting people into Soylient Green before they get old, sick, have an accident, or become unemployed.

The right to a good education.
Hmm..... This is a tough one. You see, if two people sit in a class but only one actually learns anything, then I suppose the rights of the one that didn't learn anything have been violated. Maybe the answer is to make sure no one student is smarter than the dumbest person on earth. Yeah, that'll do it, then everyone will be equal and at the same time blissfully ignorant of it. Come to think of it....aren't the schools doing this now?

I feel I also need to add that I think I should have the right to a rainbow every morning, freedom from gravity, and free food for my unicorn. Oh, and MEDS! Lots and Lots of free MEDS!

[Bikkuri]

[Noumenon]

Sunnstein is a monster. His casual disregard for life (”..it’s just a fistful of cells”), fundamental rights (grants from govt, according to his writing) and contempt for the rule of law (cf, this article) render him unfit to live in a free society.

The pedigree of Sunnstein’s ideas is stuff of which nightmares are made. These are the same ideas that have animated history’s worst mass-murderers. The destination at the end of the road of this man’s aims for humankind is the gulag, the mass grave and mass murder. This is beyond dispute. This man is evil. Pure, murderous evil.

[Noumenon]

He's worse than a communist. Communism is just a convenient framework for what he and others like plan to do. Orwell had his kind pegged a long time ago:

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.

Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power.

What pure power means you will understand presently.

We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods,but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.

They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.

We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution.
The object of torture is torture.
The object of power is power".
-George Orwell, 1984

We are dealing with a well-organized group of "O'Briens"

[MortMan]

Cass ought to read the fricking constitution...

[SandRat]

[darkangel82]

The guy is mental.

Seriously mental.

[pray4liberty]

He's not going to have a happy end!

1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. --Psalm 2