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To: adorno
....how can Americans, any of them, label a SCOTUS decision as ‘unconstitutional’?

By leaving it up to our elected officials. At least they can be voted out, you don't need to apply a pillow to their face , like Scalia, in order to get rid of them.

23 posted on 06/21/2020 1:04:04 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Nateman
By leaving it up to our elected officials.

Apparently, that's not working. Elected officials aren't responding to the activist judges, so, we need a new law or a new group of super-officials that can undo or send back the ruling for a new decision.
25 posted on 06/21/2020 1:09:19 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Nateman
I have long supported the use of article five but I fear that we may be too far gone for it to be any use.

1st argument to that point is getting all of the petitions filed in lockstep at the same time and with the same core language. The cos project has made a great attempt at that but how many states are left that can rally behind that agenda? I fear the corruption in our state and local govts may prohibit further attempts.

2nd would be that even getting 2/3 of states to petition would the congress call said convention? If they didn't how could we force them? I can count on less than two hands the number of senators and reps from all states that I would trust to follow their oath in some form or fashion. The rest are just a lost cause in my opinion. I know it says they have to call it but I doubt they would. So what do we do then? Threaten them perhaps? Wait and vote them all out then try article five?

3rd would be that even if we got the convention called and we were able to get states to send delegates that represented our goals(a concern in itself) then managed to approve amendments, would we then actually be able to get ratification amongst these 3/4 of states? I see corruption in all of our state govts that would at least try to impede that process.

4th and final argument is the one that you brought early to this thread. Marbury vs Madison. Would the courts acknowledge any passage of an ammendment regulating them. They have been interpreting this process how they see fit since this very case and therefore I can't see them limiting their own power that they never truly possessed in the first place.

Please note I did not bring up the idiot bircher argument of runaway convention ect. I do believe in article five I just fear that we may have gone too far down the path of judicial tyranny and moral degradation for it to work. I would love to be wrong on that concept my fellow patriot.

31 posted on 06/21/2020 1:24:36 PM PDT by JohnDeereGreen (I think I have the bailout flu :-()
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