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To: F15Eagle

she has no clue even how to be a judge.
I know she was not one before but one would have thought she would have recused herself but even after she didn’t she might have at least tried to understand that she is supposed to give her verdict after not jump to the defense and help them out .

Typical obama appointee, nothing matters except their agenda and lets rip the constitution up.

Didn’t obama say years ago that the civil rights period did not concentrate on the courts and that they should have done along with him saying the constitution is an article prohibiting Govt ?


9 posted on 03/30/2012 12:18:03 PM PDT by manc (Marriage is between one man and one woman,It's not a conservative view but a true American view)
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To: manc

Obama’s quotes from 2008. Midway through is “good”, where he talks about how the courts weren’t radical enough, and didn’t break free from the constraints placed by the Founding Fathers. And I pray to God that Obama is losing his chance now.

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“If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples, so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it I’d be okay.”

“But,” Obama said, “The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, as least as it’s been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted.”

Obama said “one of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil rights movement, was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that.”


23 posted on 03/30/2012 12:33:17 PM PDT by 21twelve
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