[Viennacon]

I want 95% of federal judges FIRED without pension. This is justice and the American way. The judiciary raped america

[faithhopecharity]

Rand, if we want more judicial activism we’ll vote democrat. We don’t need you.

[EternalVigilance]

Paul suggests that Roe v. Wade is a tougher case for him because abortion involves a clash of rights.

It's tough only if you're stupid.

The right to life is the supreme individual right. It is the one right without which no other right can ever possibly be enjoyed.

[onedoug]

A public hack is more to the point.

[skinkinthegrass]

Ron (My Senator), *PLEASE!* take your Looney Tune © ideas (and Daddy, too)
to that great hazardous materials bin in the sky. I'm really sorry I voted for you.
You really should stop smoking "that weed".

[Pontiac]

Senator Paul also endorses co-blogger Randy Barnett’s idea of replacing the presumption of constitutionality with a presumption of unconstitutionality (what Barnett calls the presumption of liberty). According to Paul, he doesn’t like judicial legislation but he does want judges defending his freedom.

I like this idea.

The courts should review laws in this frame of mind.

The US Constitution places very precise limits on the powers of congress to enact laws. The courts in the past have stretched these powers far beyond the powers envisioned by the founders.

If we are going to have activist judges it would be nice to have activism in defense of liberty for a change.

[Dr. Sivana]

R. Paul’s on board with Griswold?! That was the foundation of Roe v. Wade. I am starting to think that R. Paul is either too clever, or worse than his old man, who at least had a clean sheet on states’ rights.

[theBuckwheat]

One path to more liberty is to empower juries to understand their rights to exercise justice and to help them avoid being a pliable tool of government. This is the role of the Fully Informed Jury. see http://fija.org/

The jury is really the last place in the government structure where citizens can reign in a government that has run amok. A person cannot be convicted of a crime unless and until his indictment has been voted by a Grand Jury and then at trial voted to convict by a Petite Jury.

If government passes an unjust law, citizens should not hesitate to decline to vote to indict or to convict. Where government cannot get sufficient juries to convict, unjust laws are rendered moot.

[TomGuy]

judicial activism is a good thing because it advances liberty and furthers conservative goals

If judicial activism can advance liberty and further conservative goals, it can also do the opposite. It depends on who judge is doing the ruling.

How else is gay marriage, for example, being made legal in various states, even when the populace has voted in anti-gay marriage laws?

Liberal activist judges will adjudicate toward liberalism.

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The more Rand Paul opens his mouth, the more he reveals who he really is -- and it certainly is NOT being a conservative. He is trying to be all things to all people, thus revealing that he has little in the way of substance.