Posted on 10/22/2016 9:16:04 PM PDT by Innovative
Donald Trump is no legal scholar, but at Wednesday’s presidential debate he showed a superior grasp of the U.S. Constitution than did Hillary Clinton. Amid the overwrought liberal fainting about Mr. Trump’s bluster over accepting the election result (see below), Mrs. Clinton revealed a view of the Supreme Court that is far more threatening to American liberty.
Start with her answer to moderator Chris Wallace’s question about the role of the courts. “The Supreme Court should represent all of us. That’s how I see the Court,” she said. “And the kind of people that I would be looking to nominate to the court would be in the great tradition of standing up to the powerful, standing up on our behalf of our rights as Americans.”
Where to begin with that one? The Supreme Court doesn’t—or shouldn’t—“represent” anyone. In the U.S. system that’s the job of the elected branches. The courts are appointed, not elected, so they can be nonpartisan adjudicators of competing legal claims.
Mrs. Clinton is suggesting that the Court should be a super-legislature that vindicates the will of what she calls “the American people,” which apparently excludes “the powerful.” But last we checked, the Constitution protects everyone, even the powerful. The law is supposed to protect individual rights, not an abstraction called “the people.”
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Yes, the Supreme Court represents to her and her ilk an ultimate authority, which, if it can just be brought into line, can justify and sanctify any and all measures.
When the government violates the Bill of Rights, it is the duty and responsibility of the American people to remove that government.
Finally, someone says, “Individual rights”. Not “Human rights”.
Constitutionalist court Trump bump!
I hope Rush and other conservative voices have plans for moving offshore and broadcasting by shortwave radio as there will be nothing but government controlled media on this side of the Hillary curtain.
I found her answers about the Supreme Court to be downright bone chilling.
Trump was a little less than artful getting there but eventually he made it clear he would appoint Constitutionalists.
"Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton took a more measured approach.From the mind of the great Author of America's Declaration of Independence and Presidential defender of liberty we find an expanded and better-reasoned bit of understanding and advice on the role of the Supreme Court than the provincial views expressed by the Alinsky-trained and "Progressive" mind of Clinton:“'The Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful ― on the side of the powerful corporations and the wealthy,” she said. “For me, that means that we need a Supreme Court that will stand up on behalf of women’s rights, on behalf of the rights of the LGBT community, that will stand up and say no to Citizens United.'" - Clinton, Huffington Post
Jefferson clarified the great difference in his understanding of the Constitution and that of Clinton. He saw its purpose to be a "chain" on those who, like her, might come into positions of power in government. "Chain them down," he said, in their exercise of the power of office."On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." --Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823. ME 15:449
"Strained constructions... loosen all the bands of the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson to George Ticknor, 1817. FE 10:81
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I think it was Scalia who once said in a speech about the Constitution that went something like...
“Sometimes, the little guy isn’t supposed to win”
And now, since the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect having an abortion as a right as they did with the rights expressly protected by the Bill of Rights for example, Democrats must fight tooth-and-nail to make sure that there is always a pro-abortion Supreme Court activist justice majority to keep the fictitious, vote-winning “right” to have an abortion alive.
Remember in November !
Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs as evidenced by the Supreme Court’s unconstitutional legalization of abortion with powers that it stole from the states.
Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring, pro-abortion activist justices.
The supreme court is not a legislative representator but should be a simple translator of the law that is legislated. At the most it should point to congress translated legislations that contradict what the constitution translates and send it back, but that is it. The Supremes have only a revision and not veto power like the executive either.
Of course, that Roe v Wade really represent the interests of pimps and rapists who do not want to pay for the health of a pregnant woman and her baby flies above the head of dum democrats and hypocrit pimp class Hillary.
Amazing that we cannot keep off
shore the communists but they now are the ones booting us out, like
the French Resistance radio out of London
Quite frankly, I have been praying Trump would recognize and bolster our Constitution. That document, in its purest form is what has separated America from the rest of the unwashed world.
We're choosing between a controlled demolition or a destructive collapse.
Yup. Finally... Better late than never. I think it’s been Newt who has been mentoring Trump in the last several months.
I think Trump inherently understands state sovereignty since he believes in the concept of government at the local level. If I were on Trump’s staff, I would suggest he take a one day Cliff’s Notes class on the Constitution. I doubt very few in Congress who pledged to support it can even spell the word.
Forgive my vulgarity but this is the equivalent of Hillary saying she intends to grab Lady Liberty by the ***sy.
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