Posted on 06/27/2016 4:26:07 PM PDT by Cheerio
According to 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner in a post published to Slate, U.S. judges should stop studying the Constitution.
“I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation,” Posner argued.
“Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21st century,” he continued. “Which means that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post–Civil War amendments (including the 14th), do not speak to today.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
A Federal judge so he is appointed for life .... pray that he doesn’t linger in overwhelming pain before he dies next week.
Quick! Staff! Clerks! I need my prune juice...
He’s right. Judges today need only know the preferences of the cultural and economic elite. They then declare that those are the law of the land. What else are they expected to do anymore?
I was just going to say the same thing. He has declared himself a god. He says that judges are just creating a common law, like in England. Except we, the people, never agreed to that.
Someone should file impeachment articles.
Dennis Kucinich (former Mayor of Cleveland) filed them on W a dozen times. They did not go far, but at least he had the stones to do it.
Grounds for impeachment.
Impeach him.
This may be the time that God peeks out from around the corner with a “psssst? remember Me?”
I think that is referred to as “the consent of the governed”
It begins.
Whatever “it” is.
When a judge can without consequence so openly and arrogantly impeach the founding document of our entire justice system.. it begins.
Our Christian founders and foundations are already dismissed and mocked. Noe the seculars come for the second cornerstone.
Now the Constitution must go.
Come Lord Jesus.
It’s like nobody wants to even take a chance.
Is it a civic Jesus you want?
That won’t come, at least until the official Second Coming is scheduled.
However a personal Jesus can come any time you need, and will get you past the civic angst in full heavenly style.
“Grounds for impeachment”
Probably not grounds for impeachment.
He wrote this opinion on his own time and the piece had no direct connection with a case before him.
Yep.
The idea that we just need to appoint ‘conservative’ judges is the same kind of foolishness that holds that socialism will work if we just have the ‘right’ people in charge. In both cases, what’s wrong is the underlying theory and the monopoly education that precludes other views.
Ignorance is bliss.
I think thy should be elected.
The same grounds to stop you from being on a jury.
And the Roman Republic could not foresee the “culture, technology, etc.” on which our constitution is based.
Your Honor...with all due respect...you are an impertinent ignoramus.
True that !
Totally lacks common sense and has replaced it with ignorance of how the country came to be , and is successful as a republic for the last 250 years.
Send him to Germany while they build the "Fourth Reich ".
They would appreciate him more than we do ...
Lysander Spooner, at least, objects to the Constitution arguing from sound legal/philosophical principles.
http://praxeology.net/LS-NT-6.htm
This moron judge, on the other hand, is putting the cart before the horse by arguing about technological developments instead of legal principles.
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