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To: Greg F

You don’t get it, do you? Your personal opinions/arguments mean nothing. What matters is the actual text of the Constitution and Constitutional jurisprudence. As I have repeatedly shown, neither remotely support your asinine assertion that the President can repudiate a Supreme Court decision. More importantly, you have not identifed any text from the Constitution that supports your assertion nor have you cited any constitutional jurisprudence to support your assertion.

It is obvious you have no formal legal education; an indvidual who had a formal legal education would not spout the inane assertions that you do. My Constitutional Law professor was a former Solicitor General under Reagan who argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court. His reputation as a Constitutional scholar was excellent. I feel very comfortable with my education on this subject. You, on the other hand, ought to ask for a refund from that mail order company.


318 posted on 08/06/2007 11:20:32 AM PDT by ComeUpHigher
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To: ComeUpHigher

More ad hominem. You basically quote Marbury vs. Madison as if though that removes Presidential perogatives regarding enforcement of the law, which is his perogative. Where a court holding is opposed to the Constitution, the President’s oath states that his duty is to the Constitution; it does not mention the Supreme Court’s opinion at all. If you are saying that no President has ever ignored the Court, or altered it because of a disagreement on the Constitution, you are wrong. See Jackson, see also Abraham Lincoln, and a slew of administrations that have altered the size of the court or threatened to over holdings of the Court. It’s raw power and public opinion when things get down to brass tacks on an issue. Not neat and clean at all.

So you went to Brigham Young Law School, and studied under Rex Lee, since you would have crowed about Harvard if you had attended. As I said, my legal edumacation is at the more prestigious institution, since such things seem to matter to you. You’ll have to knock off the claims to a superior education and find more support than Marbury v. Madison, which a good High School student should know of at least in general terms.

Original jurisdiction only applies in a few areas for the Supreme Court. The rest can dissappear in a single statute if Congress so chooses.


320 posted on 08/06/2007 11:42:09 AM PDT by Greg F (The Congress voted and it didn't count and . . . then . . . it didn't happen at all.)
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