[ForGod'sSake]

Cheese anyone???

[atomicpossum]

Martin Garbus is a partner in the law firm of Davis & Gilbert LLP and one of the country's leading trial lawyers.

'Nuff said.

[kjo]

Nonsense. This court will protect and enhance our republican heritage.

[futurerulerkch]

The gaints of today are Rice, Bush, Cheney and every man and woman over in Iraq fighting for our country, you and the liberals are just to blind to see that for yourselves... and also the govenment is not out of whack only congress is

[FateAmenableToChange]

Guaranteed if the dems win the presidency and pubs keep congress, the court will become "an obstacle to the presidency, stealing too much of its power."

[Asclepius]

The Rehnquist era started the shift of the power to the states and away from the federal government - away from the Congress, away from the federal agencies, away from the regulatory system created to protect employees, consumers, investors - the people of America.

Odd how for the author, the federal government is identical with the people of America, and opposes the power of the states.

[Enchante]

What a load of stinking excrement.... at "worst" current changes might adjust some of the balances between branches to what it was under FDR, Truman, and JFK..... all icons of the Democratic Party, last time I checked.

Yet, given the drastic usurpations of power by judicial legislators in the courts, and given the deference to precedent and the power of the MSM and the 'Rats to obstruct, it's very unlikely that any changes in the coming years will remotely resemble what the author is blathering on about.

[Ninian Dryhope]

Needs a barf alert.

[somniferum]

I think Orwell had a word for this: Doublethink

Anyone who postulates that the founding father's would have wanted (or even could have imagined) the regulatory behemoth the federal government has become (right down to regulating how much water our toilets can use) is either dishonest, ignorant, or insane (or some combination of the three).

[AngryJawa]

"What have you given us, Dr. Franklin?"

"A republic," he replied, "if you can keep it."

I think old Ben would understand that our "Republic" began its erosion during the Civil War, accelerated its slide under FDR, and really kicked in the nitrous under LBJ. Men like Alito, I pray, will slow the descent.

The fact that this ambulance chaser views increased states' rights and decreased federal bureaucracy as a blow to the Framer's vision of our Republic is staggeringly backwards.

[sionnsar]

The Courts, in taking away the ability of Congress, takes away power from its 535 elected representatives in the Senate and House.

And a bunch of those ought to be representing their states (legislatures), not the people. System's already compromised...

[The_Republican]

Choke on it losers!

'W' has accomplished impossible.

I truly believed that their would be blooshed and riots if 'W' tried to get in a second Conservative Nominee.

Instead, all we have is tears and depression from the left.

Unbelieveable!

I have lost complete respect for lefty losers as opponents.

[Fudd]

What's the quote from a clinton lackey? "Stroke of pen, law of the land. Cool!"

[arthurus]

The left created the court they are crying about now. Yes, the Court is pretty much all-powerful in our system now but that comes out of the Left law schools and the unrelenting blizzard of lawsuits to make laws that the more popular based Congress rejects. It's their baby and the right is simply trying to have some influence in this superlegislature that the left built.

[TexasKamaAina]

But because he issues a statement at the time he signs the law Bush claims his interpretation of the law has effect. Alito claims, as do conservative academics, that the "signing statement" would "increase the power of the executive to shape the law."

Devolving power from the feds to the states sounds great. But what's this business about the president's "signing statement?" If it is being presented fairly, it doesn't sound like a good, conservative principle.

[LenS]

"The Rehnquist era started the shift of the power to the states and away from the federal government - away from the Congress, away from the federal agencies, away from the regulatory system created to protect employees, consumers, investors - the people of America."

1. Okay, got it, the states will reign supreme over the feds.

. . . . it will also preside over the expansion of presidential powers in ways never before imagined. But even more importantly, it will insulate the President from accountability - the Chief Executive, under the new regime, will be responsible to no one.

2. Okay, got it, the President will reign supreme over all at the head of the federal government. Oops, but what about point one?

Typical trial lawyer -- he contradicts himself from one paragraph to the next.

Interesting to note that democratically elected officials like the President, Governors and State Legislators are the enemy here and that unelected civil servants are the protectors of us all.

[A CA Guy]

He was having sex with so many women in his time with so many children that he could really be one of the founding Fathers of our country for sure.

Also the predecessor to the NBA daddy.

[kindred]

But another liberal journalist bemoaning the shift of power to the right, where it belongs.

[starbase]

the Chief Executive, under the new regime, will be responsible to no one.

This is absolutely false. This article sounds like a liberal panic attack. To imply that the "right leaning" court will just do any Conservative president's bidding is childishly simple.

It's also false to call the next administration a "regime". BOTH Houses of Congress act as restraints on the president, to say they cannot be Houses of Congress and still be Conservatives pretty much sums up the shrill position of this article.

This article is a scare tactic. If you accept it at face value, we cannot have Conservative judges, presidents, and Houses of Congress because that is the definition of "no responsibility".

This article is written to try to argue that we must give left wing radicals power because if we get the government we want, they would have us believe, then we've lost everything.

As long as there is no coup, and elections are held as scheduled, then the country is working properly (in the context of representation). Everyone must wait for the next elections if they want to try and create changes ("everyone" includes liberals BTW). That's why, although our country is young, our government is among the very oldest in the world.

We cannot allow the left to convince us that our success is failure (IE, when we're in power something is wrong with that). Wouldn't they love it if they could do that?

[Richard Kimball]

Well this was different than what I thought it would be. I thought it would be about Franklin's statement that the Republic would only survive until people figured out they could vote themselves benefits from the public til.

Unfortunately, it's just another fruit loop complaining that the courts might not legislate from the bench.

[dr_lew]

His death reminds us we once lived in an era of giants. Where are the giants now?

Well, Andrew Jackson is dead too. He told the Supreme Court to buzz off. There's a giant for ya.