New Book Traces How Partisanship Has Reshaped The Supreme Court

NPR ^ | June 23, 2019 | Carl Hulse , All Things Considered interview

[John O]

after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia

They keep misspelling "assassination".

[Albion Wilde]

I think this is backwards. I think the Supreme Court’s decisions since 1948 when they elevated non-belief in God to the same level as belief in God has led the demise of our entire system. It’s all over but the shooting. You can’t have a Bill of Rights acknowledging “Nature and Nature’s God” and a national motto that “In God We Trust” if the people who don’t believe it are allowed to silence the people who do believe it. But that’s exactly what has happened, largely through the radical destruction of traditional marriage and private property, which the SCOTUS played a large part in since the early 60s.

[Mack the knife]

I believe the push back started in the 30s and 40s in response to a chastened Supreme Court. When FDR tried to pack the court, SCOTUS acceded to New Deal Laws, and twisted logic into pretzels.

Only a Lawyer or a University Professor could tell a common man that even though the Constitution explicitly limits the reach of the Federal Government to the commerce BETWEEN the States … Wickard vs. Fillmore decided that a farmer raising wheat on his own land and eating it himself was engaging in interstate commerce (because it might possibly affect the price of wheat just a little bit in some other State), and thus could be regulated

Only a Lawyer or a University Professor could tell a common man that even though the Second Amendment explicitly addressed the right of the people to keep and bear weapons of war … the National Firearms Act was declared constitutional for outlawing sawed off shotguns … and then only a few years later was used to outlaw weapons of war, but allow weapons with sporting purposes.

Only a Lawyer or a University Professor could tell a common man that, even though a thousand years of Common Law requires a person committing a crime to have an evil intent … but such is not required for anti discrimination laws, only “disparate impact”.

There are hundreds of similar decisions (including abortion and gay marriage). Ordinary people know such decisions are purely political, not based on law or the Constitution. That is why the Federalist Society started, and has finally come to fruition with the appointment of judges who are more likely to interpret the Constitution as written.

[Albion Wilde]

Only a Lawyer or a University Professor could tell a common man that ...

It has gotten so that the common man needs a contract lawyer and an accountant just to review the fine print, for instance, on the sneaky email Verizon sends out when it raises your rates 6 weeks after you signed up for a lower rate, without ever signing anything; but you're locked in for two years.

The workings of the SCOTUS as a super legislature have to come to an end. They are killing the golden goose.

Ordinary people know such decisions are purely political, not based on law or the Constitution. That is why the Federalist Society started, and has finally come to fruition with the appointment of judges who are more likely to interpret the Constitution as written.

I did not know that; and thank you for pointing it out. I'm extremely glad to know its foundational purpose. Trump must win again, to continue the correction.