Posted on 06/26/2005 8:43:06 PM PDT by TheEaglehasLanded
I was hoping they would have come up with an easy call to keep the Ten Commandments after the deliberations seemed to lean that way.
But since it has taken to the last day and with last Thursday's rewrite of the 5th Amendment I am scared to death we will see a 5-4 vote against us.
Whatever the decision is, it has already been made.
Too late!
Whatever the decision is, it has already been made.
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Yes and no, if I've learned anything these past few years it's that the more politicized a jurist is the more prone they are to being influenced by the political breezes. If our five blackrobes get doused with angry calls, emails and letters you can bet your bootie that it will have an effect.
What's your guess, can the FREEPers in DC get a large contingent to SCOTUS tommorrow morning?
How can they walk by the 10 Commandments carved on the walls of the Supreme Court every day and say they don't belong there or any public place?
I can't guess what they will decide. I'm just hoping that steam isn't coming out my ears tomorrow night because they blew another one.
Apparently you havent learned much. The guys in the black robes are pretty much immune to outside forces. Lifetime appointment will do that to you.
Because the tablets inside the court are blank.
However, the tablets on the outside East Portico (I think it's on the east) are not.
A great many strained and implausible arguments have been made that Moses holds The Law, not the 10 Commandments. It requires a very lawerly mind to grasp that disingenuous subtlety.
Why Moses sits at the very center and most prominent position among the other sculpted "lawgivers" (e.g., Confucius and Hammurabi) is unknown. Just an artistic fluke?
Hmmm i would think after knowing what the supremes have done in the past that this would be no surprise .
Bush has been screaming about such things happening and yet everyone just sat on there heals .
Were being stripped of every God given right we have by activist judges and people still cant lay down the remote and pick up a pen .
Unless those "outside forces" are municipalities, real estate developers or Walmart Corporation. Then the rulings are "suspiciously favorable", as Justice Thomas put it.
Depends on the argument presented in the specific case and their collective opinion, but it definitly will not depend upon our Constitution, upon which Justice Thomas no doubt will form his opinion, perhaps joined by a few others who haven't already decided that that document only means what they (the majority of the court) say it does, no matter what it actually says.
Believe me, I'm not advocating removal of the 10 Commandments from government buildings. Only that we be accurate about the sculptures at the USSC.
I did get it backwards in my previous post.
The sculpture with Moses in the center is on the eastern wall of the building, aka "the back". It is not at the front entrance. The two tablets he is holding in that sculpture are blank.
The frieze inside the USSC also includes many other "lawgivers", and the tablets Moses is holding are inscribed with Commandments "6 through 10 proscrib[ing] murder, adultery, theft, perjury, and covetousness."
However, it it is extremely disingenuous to assert (as do the ACLU and liberal judges) that these sculptures have nothing to do with America's Christian heritage, since there are no displays of the Buddhist Sutras or Islamic Sharia on any US government building, while there are numerous displays of the 10 Commandments throughout Washington DC alone.
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