Posted on 07/04/2005 4:12:33 AM PDT by pookie18
"All told this Court's jurisprudence leaves courts, governments, and believers and nonbelievers alike confused--an observation that is hardly new." With these words Justice Clarence Thomas accurately described the Supreme Court's latest efforts in McCreary County v. ACLU and Van Orden v. Perry to determine whether public displays of the Ten Commandments on state property are consistent with the U.S. Constitution. In McCreary County, the court ruled 5-4 that the display of the Ten Commandments was unconstitutional under the Lemon test because they found a "predominantly religious purpose," i.e., to acknowledge the one true God.
In Van Orden, faced with a monument of the Ten Commandments on the state capitol grounds in Austin, Texas, the court, rejecting the use of the three-part Lemon test and relying more on history, found 5-4 that the monument in that case was acceptable partly because it had remained in place for nearly 40 years and was a "passive" display among 37 other historical markers on the state Capitol grounds.
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The reason that we have written laws is so that we can know ahead of time how we are expected to behave. The Supreme Court is not predictable, thus we cannot possible know whether we are obeying or breaking the law at any given time.....
Sounds more like the modern concept of law is to give lawyers a chance to enrich themselves vying with one another at the new gaming halls that used to be called courts. "What you see is what you get" has long gone out the window.
The court is tacking in a direction I find most apparent.
It's cheering on big government, finding that the interest of the state trumps individual rights and embracing the Marxist common good.
The abuse will continue until these black robed dictators suffer consequences for their illegal actions. Let's see if the lawyer/legislators have enough guts to levy any punishment against the imperial fascist court.
The Democrats intend to make the court more predictable.
If they get their way we will certainly know how the court will make their rulings, and it wont be pretty.
It used to be said of the Texas legislature, "Nothing, not a man's home nor his family, is safe while this august body is in session."
Now that distinction goes to SCOTUS.
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