Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Isara

“I agree with President Lincoln and courts do not make law. That is not what a court does. The court interprets the law, applies the law, but courts don’t make law.”

Cruz is 100% correct. Courts issue opinions. Courts cannot dictate law. The only way a judicial opinion can become law is if a legislature passes legislation that agrees with the judicial opinion.

Cruz is right again.


3 posted on 12/04/2015 7:07:29 AM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: sergeantdave

Cruz is right, but don’t 60 percent of the American people endorse organized gaydom?


14 posted on 12/04/2015 7:53:18 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

To: sergeantdave
Courts cannot dictate law.

Presidents don't make laws, or decide which laws to enforce or not enforce, either. Lincoln may have correctly believed that the courts should operate within the confines of the Constitution but, like the current occupier of the presidency, he did not adhere to the constitutional limits of the executive branch and that conversation should be had as well when discussing judicial limitations.

We Make Law!

21 posted on 12/04/2015 8:15:06 AM PST by cowboyway (Returning the federal government to its constitutional limits is a Lost Cause.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

To: sergeantdave
Cruz is 100% correct. Courts issue opinions. Courts cannot dictate law.

Right but irrelevant. Courts do dictate law and by the same token the Executive branch nullifies laws by refusing to enforce, or selectively enforce them. We need Governors to stand up and refuse the illegal mandates that come down from the Fed and until they do it doesn't matter. We are subjects bound by the whims off the king not citizens.

28 posted on 12/04/2015 1:35:26 PM PST by itsahoot (55 years a republican-Now Independent. Will write in Sarah Palin, no matter who runs. RIH-GOP)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson