The Supreme Court vs We the People

Right Side News ^ | June 28, 2008 | Vincent Gioia

[RightSideNews]

Thanks to the flappable Justice Anthony Kennedy the Second Amendment remains in the constitution but it is outrageous that four members of the court wanted to throw it out. (see Scalias Opinion)

Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a precisely clear opinion upholding the right of the people to keep and bear arms on an individual basis. But the ink wasn’t dry before leftists of all stripes "found" language in the opinion that will allow other judges to confirm all manner of restrictions on gun owners’ rights. Unfortunately Scalia probably had to include some of these loop holes in the opinion to placate Justice Kennedy so he would join the majority of five.

But how perilous is our freedom when a population of 300 million Americans is at the mercy of nine unelected people in black robes? This is reminiscent of some "sci fy" dramas where one or a small group governs a planet of sheep-like beings............."The crime was the brutal rape of an 8 year old girl and a court in the state of Louisiana sentenced the criminal to death in accordance with state law. Kennedy and the four liberal judges said the death penalty in this case was "cruel and unusual" punishment in violation of the Eight Amendment; however what Kennedy and his gang of four failed to consider is that to be unconstitutional the punishment must be "cruel AND unusual" to be prohibited.

The death penalty for crimes involving no death has been applied for centuries; for example..."

[epow]

You got it Sandrat, Obama is really bad news.

I had thought seriously about voting for a 3rd party nominee this time as a protest of the Republican party's capitulation to the RINO faction. But after doing some investigating into Obama's background from the child of a radical Islamic father through his indoctrination in a militant Islamic Indonesian school to his present position as the most radically liberal Senator ever to hold that office, I have decided that in good conscience I can't throw away my vote even though McCain is one of the last RINOs I would vote for under normal circumstances.

I see the Nov election as a choice between pure evil and a mixed bag of evil and good, and the pure evil is so virulently evil that it can't be allowed to prevail.

[TimSkalaBim]

I forget who said it, a century ago:

"The courts follow the i'lection returns."

A rotten way of doing things, but probably accurate.

Hope all is well with you.

[Impy]

This is why I will vote for McPain.

Those 9 can practically lord over us like Kings. ‘Bama must not pick any.

[SandRat]

Our own “Black Robed Mullahs.”