Posted on 07/07/2014 11:24:55 AM PDT by TigerClaws
A federal judge thinks it's time for the Supreme Court to just "stfu."
Writing on his personal blog in response to the high court's recent 5-4 decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, U.S. District Judge Richard George Kopf harshly criticized the justices for taking what he sees as a too active role in controversial cases.
"This term and several past terms has proven that the Court is now causing more harm (division) to our democracy than good by deciding hot button cases that the Court has the power to avoid," Kopf, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote. "As the kids says, it is time for the Court to stfu."
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If it's pro abortion funding by Christians, STFU.
Btw, any judicial reprimand coming this judge's way for conduct unbecoming a judge?
Roe? More Please!
Hobby Lobby? STFU!
Wondering that myself...
Just how does this guy think the balance of powers works anyway?
It’s the SCOTUS job to settle legal issues.
Who knew?
He’s just another attention whore who hasn’t gotten enough attention lately. We do live in The Age of the Attention Whore...
Sure seems like it.
“...now causing more harm (division) to our democracy...”
Clearly someone neglected to tell him we’re a Republic...
But hey... what the hell, right...
A course in anger management or anxiety meds?
What respectable jurist would have his own personal blog?
The role of the Supreme Court is to protect the people (including a minority who are being abused by a majority) from unconstitutional infringements of their rights by the government. Even (especially?) if unpopular, the Court must rule on conflicts between legislation and fundamental God-given rights that are detailed in the Constitution. For the Court to remain silent would risk a messy resolution to the widespread governmental overreach.
Right on. It would be something different if the Supreme Court were all Constitutionalists. Most on the court are not. Sick liberals that feelgood beyond believe regardless of that little thing called the Constitution and what Government is allowed to do and not to do. The Court is to place checks on what the Presidency, Senate or House attempts to do if questionable.
I wonder if he's say the same thing about Brown VS Board of Education, or Roe VS Wade. Those were certainly controversial in their time, and even today!
Mark
The stupidity of people in the field of law like this guy is very frightening. If we take his thesis at face value, that a decision is damaging because it touches on a controversial “hot button” issues, then by that definition any government decision in those areas is bad. Or are we to be rule solely by the executive branch, unrestrained by guiding principles, by decree that changes by the whim of each administration?
Does this guy even h secret and the implication of the Court avoiding such cases as he suggests?
That got butchered! “Does this guy even understand the implications” is what I supposed to write.
All you GW Bush fans out there love this guy he appointed to the federal bench, of course?? I am a Reagan Republican, with no admiration for: the Bush family, their crazy foreign wars, establishment Republicans, the types they appointed to top jobs with the left establishment that like this judge, are far too cozy with the “left establishment” and who will do and say anything to get good press in dubious dumps like the Washington Post, New York Times.
It requires courage to take on difficult, controversial subjects but sometimes it has to be done for the sake of freedom. Apparently this is a concept with which you're unfamiliar,
Regards,
SCOTUS
You think Reagan never appointed a bad judge?
Everybody knows that taking too active a role in controversial cases is a right reserved only for the tyrannical, black robed Feral “judges”.
The person who appointed him should have told him we’re a republic. Oh, well. Just another gift that keeps on giving. And another reminder of a mistake I made when voting.
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