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To: butterdezillion
Now, were you saying something about a court not being willing to overturn the results of an election? Wherever are you getting that idea from?

Actually, what I said was, "There is no way the conservative Justices would have participated in undoing a 2 year old election."

Citing liberal judges engaged in judicial activism are perfect examples of what conservatives hate about the current state of the judiciary. Ignoring the will of the people. Are you suggesting the Supreme Court follow the example of those activist courts you cited and undo the last presidential election?

Other than you, I have asked several frequent birthers to name the Supreme Court Justices they thought might be receptive to the birther lawsuits. The answer was always the conservative members of the court. Anyone who has ever read Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts understands these men are philosophically opposed to interjecting themselves into electoral politics unless they absolutely have to.

I've never understood conservatives pushing the Supreme Court to overturn an election. It would be establishing a horrible precedence...one that would likely be used by the (Democrat Party) Trial Lawyers every 2 years to rid themselves of annoying conservative office holders.

30 posted on 11/29/2010 10:47:31 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Tex-Con-Man

It is the job of the court to overturn unconstitutional elections. That’s why we have a Constitution; there are some things that need more than a 51% vote of the few people who actually vote, because some things are meant to be permanent. That’s why it takes so much more work to amend the Constitution - because the provisions of the Constitution are not supposed to be undone by a simple majority in an election somewhere.

If they want to change the natural born citizenship requirement for the POTUS they can’t do it through a simple one-time vote by 51% of the population which doesn’t even know they’re voting to undo the Constitution. They have to do it by the process the Constitution sets out, which is much more difficult because the Constitution is intended to be more permanent and stable than the whims of the electorate on a particular day.

Conservative justices are those who seek to CONSERVE - to preserve what is precious, and from a judicial standpoint that is the US Constitution. You dang right conservatives would overturn an election that would negate the Constitution. That’s precisely what the SCOTUS exists to do. That’s precisely why the CONSTITUTION exists. This is basic 8th grade social studies material.


38 posted on 11/30/2010 7:59:10 AM PST by butterdezillion
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