Jindal to Trump: 'Can't make America great again by throwing Christians in jail'

Washington Examiner ^ | 9/4/15 | Ryan Lovelace

[SauronOfMordor]

I’d like to see Trump follow up with “Now, when are we going to jail the OTHER elected officials who violate federal law, like those who run ‘sanctuary cities’ ?”

[ripnbang]

Yep.

[DoughtyOne]

When he’s wrong.

[DoughtyOne]

The SCOTUS ruling. Whether through judicial activism, legislating from the court, through flat out abuse of power, this is the law of the land now.

Until it is countered by Congress or in some way re-evaluated by the SCOTUS itself, this is something we live with now.

If the federal courts are going to uphold it, there’s not much we can do about it. It is effectively the law.

We don’t have to agree, but it will be implemented against us.

[ResponseAbility]

The Supreme Court *CANNOT* legislate.

[DoughtyOne]

No it can’t.

What it can and does do is hand down opinions based on the Constitution. We may and actually do disagree with it, but it is handing down decisions based on the 14th Amendment here. What does the 14th Amendment mean when applied to this issue.

I have stated on this (or possibly another thread) that I think the SCOTUS did legislate here. I think there’s a good case to be made, that I was wrong. It may be a simple misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment.

I don’t find a protection for homosexuality in there. They do. I think they are wrong.

I do believe that the first Robert’s decision on Obamacare was a perfect example of legislating from the bench.

[timestax]

bttt

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3333289/posts?page=19#19

[ResponseAbility]

****I do believe that the first Robert’s decision on Obamacare was a perfect example of legislating from the bench.****

Agreed. All the SSM decision really accomplished is that until a State legislature ensures that its marriage laws comport with the SCOTUS ruling, the laws on the books that don’t are null and void. Kim Davis has no way to comply with a law that has not been written yet.

[Westbrook]

Trump: "That's the law of the land."

An expression of SUPREME ignorance.

The SCOTUS cannot make law.

They can only rule on the constitutionality of a law or a government regulation or action.

For "gay marriage" to become the law of the land, a Constitutional Amendment must be passe that:

• Delegates authority to the U.S. Congress to define and regulate marriage.
• Vacates those clauses of the U.S. Constitution that conflict with the newly delegated Congressional authority to define and regulate marriage.

Any other method of foisting this atrocity on the people is TYRANNY!

[DoughtyOne]

= :^)