“Yeah, it would be amusing if Roberts had not taken a dive on Obama Care. Who’s to say which way this guy will go in the future. He wouldn’t be the first Supreme to turn after be selected.”
” the Lord of the Rings there are Nine rings given to mankind, and these corrupted them into the Nazgul, some quicker than others but all fell to the lure of power... there are nine seats on the Supreme court that seem to have a similar effect on judges. Coincidence?”
Good analogy; maybe the old proverb “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” when applied to the supremes?
There is no reason it shouldn't; I seem to recall a story about one of the Founders, who upon hearing the Constitution appointed USSC Justices for life lamented the life of the new nation, considering it already dead.
I think a lot of our troubles now are due to the commonly held belief in a lie: that the Constitution means whatever the Supreme Court says it means. If they can alter the Constitution in a manner, not permitted by the Constitution, then their authority is over it and not subject to it; but if the Constitution is the authority that authorizes and institutes the Supreme Court then it is the court that is subject to the Constitution. This stems from the very basic nature of authority, which Jesus observed: the one who is sent is under the authority of the one sending.