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Posted on 07/08/2015 5:30:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
So let’s suppose that the Supreme Court had struck down Obamacare and same-sex marriage last month instead of upholding both. Would Texas Sen. and presidential aspirant Ted Cruz be demanding a constitutional amendment requiring the Court’s justices to stand for election in order to keep their jobs? And would liberals be rallying to the defense of the Court, and condemning any effort to alter its supposedly august traditions?
Of course not. Throughout our political history, the team that loses in the Supreme Court has tried to alter the court’s power and influence. This battle isn’t about deep judicial principles or timeless heritage; it’s about whose ox gets gored.
That’s why Republicans during the Civil War proposed abolishing the entire Supreme Court and replacing it with a new one. The Court was still led by Roger Taney, author of the notorious Dred Scott decision on slavery. Creative GOP legislators pointed out that the Constitution simply provided for “one Supreme Court”; it didn’t say anything about how the Court should be constituted....
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Let the state legislatures vote on retention of supreme court justices.
The court might not be so quick to step on the tails of those who hold their fate in their hands.
If only Ted had advocated ‘packing the court’ like FDR wanted to do in 37, the Communist Morning News would be more supportive.
We the people should be able to nullify decisions like the gay marriage decision. They defied the will of 40 states.
I like your idea.
Originally, the Bill of Rights did not apply to the States. The Supreme Court had no power over the states.
The 14th Amendment ruined the balance of power. Something needs to be done to reclaim our freedoms.
If the justices upheld their oaths to the Constitution, Cruz would not be advocating a change to the Constitution to keep them in check. You NYU clown.
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We had that for US Senators until the 17th. Now the bastards have more money than god to get re elected.
“This battle isn’t about deep judicial principles or timeless heritage; it’s about whose ox gets gored.”
Our ox is the deep judicial principles and the timeless heritage, and our ox keeps getting gored.
Copycat bump for what I think is a very good idea.
BINGO.
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