“nine unelected people”
But they are put in place by people we elect! That alone shows how important one’s votes are. I found this paragraph to be most interesting:
“Justice Kennedy said there was a national consensus against applying capital punishment for the crime (for which no statistical basis was cited); as if the matter of constitutionality was to be judged according to national polls – how ridiculous it is to use assumed, or even real, public opinion polls as a basis for applying constitutional law to a matter before the court. If public opinion is for a change, the constitution provides the ground rules for its amendment and it does not say the U.S. Supreme Court is the remedy.”
How will Justice Kennedy rule when the national consensus
is that Bin Ladin be hanged, what rights will they find for HIM.
“nine unelected people”
But they are put in place by people we elect! That alone shows how important one’s votes are.
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That is one huge problem ,,, we are so far removed from the electoral process to be able to effect it to our (and the founders) philosophy... The Senate confirms SC appointees and should logically be the branch of conservative power as the Senate was originally full of appointees from the various state legislators and they had a vested interest in maintaining their states power base and keeping the federal gov’t within it’s appointed boundaries.
We need to repeal the 17th ammendment... Many people point to womens suffrage as the turning point where the U.S. went soft and liberal ,,, I believe stripping away the states appointed representatives was a much bigger blow. In the past we had much more access to our state reps in our state govt’s and could count on them to appoint representatives to the US Senate that really stood for what the states wanted without the silly “beauty contest” elections we now have where moderation/RINO’s rule as the RNC is full of idiots.
"The courts follow the i'lection returns."
A rotten way of doing things, but probably accurate.
Hope all is well with you.