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To: capitan_refugio
Capt R.,
The Supreme Court is as unreliable in interpreting the Constitution as is your bud Prof. Jaffe. Do you trust the opinions of Ruth Bader Ginsberg?
420 posted on 10/30/2004 12:51:37 AM PDT by Red Phillips ([><] Vote Peroutka. A real conservative. [><])
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To: Red Phillips
Do you trust the opinions of Ruth Bader Ginsberg?

They like to quote dicta from Marshall in various cases -- McCullogh vs. Maryland, Ex Parte Bollman and Swartout, and especially The Prize Cases and Texas vs. White.

But they tend to choke on the authority of Dred Scott and my personal favorite, Plessey vs. Ferguson. And if you really want to see a smutty Court munging up the Bill of Rights, try to have a read through the syllabus of U.S. vs. Cruikshank (1876), which is almost pure squid ink, and which turned loose a group of KKK defendants charged under federal law with attempting to violate the rights of a group of black voters. The really interesting finding in Cruikshank was that, although the Bill of Rights was a federal document, the enforcment of the citizens' rights was the States' obligation.

Wonder what capitan thinks about that.

433 posted on 10/30/2004 4:07:42 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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