The Supremes: Trashing the Constitution - (Founders would be disheartened, if they knew!)

OPINION EDITORIALS.COM ^ | JUNE 24, 2005 | GEORGE C. LANDRITH

[CHARLITE]

"This is what happens when liberals rule on your constitutional rights. To them, the document has no inherent meaning - it means whatever they want it to mean. When they say, "It is a living, breathing document," that is code for, "It is a meaningless document and five of us can change it whenever and however we want."

[spyone]

Who(names please) voted for this?

[CHARLITE]

FYI ping.

Char :)

[RightWhale]

How many threads is this on this non-happening?

[traviskicks]

Some thoughts on this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1429877/posts

Petition to impeach justices
http://www.petitiononline.com/lp001/petition.html

Some more on the Founding of the United states (and the constitutionality of charity)
http://www.neoperspectives.com/foundingoftheunitedstates.htm

[familyop]

The various lobbies for "municipalities" are quite powerful. Most city government interests want centralized, socialist government.

[kpp_kpp]

the reason it is not a "non-happening" is all the 'little guys' were hoping this would be the case to overturn decades of property rights infringement by local governments. instead it has nailed the coffin shut on property rights.

[Mulch]

I called my republican senators from Missouri (Kit Bond, Jim Talent). Their staffers said the the senators had no opinion on the matter. When I asked why, they said the senators were involved in other business. (Bond - some Highway Bill). I guess I'll be involved in other business when they come looking for my vote.

[Ladysmith]

For all those who are concerned about this latest trashing of our Constitution, which apparently doesn't include RightWhale, you might want to listen to Quinn from this morning.

Right click and save this MP3 file or go to http://archives.warroom.com/archives.php.

[Dante3]

BUMP

[Ladysmith]

Great. Just f'ing great.

[goldstategop]

All the more reason to abolish judicial review. In passing the Framers never intended to give the courts the power to pronounce on the validity of the laws. The Supreme Court did that in Marbury and created an entirely new, unchecked power out of whole cloth. No less a figure than President Thomas Jefferson feared the consequences of an imperial judicial magistracy. Which is more or less what we now have in this country. The only way to restore the separation of powers is to take away the power from judges to write their own laws, make policy, and order the elected branches of government around. Otherwise we will end up living in a country the Framers of our Constitution would not recognize if they were alive today. Absolute power corrupts and corrupts absolutely as much in the hands of a judge as in the hands of a politician. That is why is time to get rid of judicial review.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[CHARLITE]

The only four who dissented were Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist and O'Connor. The other five "made it happen."

Char (:

[upchuck]

I, for one, for over a year here on FR, have been saying,

It's all about the judges!

After hundreds of emails, phone calls and faxes and bunches of uncontributed dollars to the Republican cause on my part, comes this latest travesty of justice.

I'm sorry, but it just totally dumbfounds me that people continue to let five idiots in black robes trash our country.

To me, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and property rights are what make America stand head and shoulders above the rest of the world. We've now lost 1/3 of this and the other 2/3 are under continuous vicious attack from the judiciary.

What's it gonna take for people to wake up on this?

I've been stumbling around in the dictionary and thesaurus trying to find a word to sum up this horrible feeling in my stomach. I think heartsick comes the closest.

[RightWhale]

Yeah, there was hope. Insteads they got a 'hands off' by Fed Gov. We are back on our own resources as usual. New London is a blighted area. Groton is sweet, too bad about the Sub Base being closed. Their shopping mall won't make a bit of difference, but that's the way they want it. Democracy in action.

[AdamSelene235]

To me, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and property rights are what make America stand head and shoulders above the rest of the world. We've now lost 1/3 of this and the other 2/3 are under continuous vicious attack from the judiciary.

You must have missed SCOTUS's CFR ruling which confirmed that criticizing a Senator on teevee within 60 days of an election is a Speech Crime not protected by the 1st Amendment.

[RightWhale]

That's right, I don't see this as epochal one way or the other. If they trashed the 1967 Treaty and established property rights in outer space then I would say that they had done something worthy.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

It's not democracy in action you halfwit.

It's treason and it's socialism, but it's not democracy.

[traviskicks]

I called Senator Dole and Burr from NC, both staffers who answered said they had received a lot of calls on it and could tell people cared about the issue. They said they would update me with what the senators will do. I just told them my opinion, didn't ask what they were going to do about it.

I'll be watching them.