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Supreme Court is awesome when they agree with us, but suck when they don’t rule for us. Always will be that way. Liberals were upset with SC in 2000 and quite a few times since and we are upset with them a few times the last few years but were thrilled with them in 2000 and during a few times over the last years. Just depends on the final decisions.
“Substantive Due Process,” the creation out of legal wholecloth of “rights” that are not found in the Constitution. The creation of a whole series of such “rights” causes them inherently fall into conflict with the original Bill of Rights, which are found in the Constitution, and with each other. The Court has set itself up as the arbiter of those competing “rights.”
By so doing, “rights” are no longer rights at all, but licenses. They are granted on the whim of the state acting through its judiciary...and revoked, too. Just like a fishing license.
Whose idea was it to make a friggin’ federal case out of everything?
Wow.
Another great column about a problem with our government.
What is absent are solutions.
Interesting
If Congress can limit the purview of the Supremes with respect to certain issues, does that mean Congress can limit Supreme Court authority over the Second Amendment?
The USSC decided to make the Obamacare financial penalty a tax. Who gave it the power to re-write laws? And if it is a tax, then shouldn’t that be a congressional function? The USSC has is seen as arbitrary and highly political in the eyes of many Americans.
Insist all branches of USG operate within their lawful juristiction, period:
“He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation.”
— Declaration of Independence
“Let no more be heard of confidence in men, but rather bind them down by the chains of the Constitution.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding up on them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption, or even knowledge of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives in a departure from it prior to such an act.”
— Alexander Hamilton (Federalist Papers)
“In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”
Congress can’t block the Supreme Court from running roughshod over the states.
Congress can only block appeals. Congress can’t block the Supreme Court from voiding or effectively making state level laws.
They are simply dishonest about the Constitution.
The judicial branch cannot make or remake or void laws. They can only render opinions. Their opinions can then be considered by the legislative branch or the legislative branch can ignore the opinions. Five black-robed mortals cannot make themselves rulers. The responsibility of the executive branch is to faithfully execute the laws passed through the constitutionally mandated legislative process.
The SCOTUS is a Created Thing.
What does Romans 1:25+ say about that?
Wnen it comes down to do it, the guys with the guns are supreme, or whoever they will listen to.
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