Justice Stevens Against Rule of Law

World Net Daily ^ | May 9, 2010 | Roger Banks

[Pellegrino]

As if it were some quaint eccentricity to find on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court, President Obama has praised retiring Justice John Paul Stevens as "a fierce defender of the rule of law." Now enters the chorus echoing the strain: He's "the justice who stood for the rule of law," proclaimed one of Stevens' former clerks on CNN.com; "the Rule of Law Justice," trumpeted another in the Washington Post; a "stalwart adheren[t] to the rule of law," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on the Senate floor; and so forth . . . .

[Steelfish]

http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/apr/24/the-34-year-legacy-of-john-paul-stevens/

[I still care]

Like Kelo?

I went to DU when the Supremes made the Kelo decision. They couldn’t figure out why all THEIR justices were the ones that shot down the little guy.

[Congressman Billybob]

Both Obama and the ACLU praised Justice Stevens by saying that he “upheld the rule of law.” Neither one ever said that he “upheld the Constitution.” That makes all the difference.

The liberals consider the Constitution an impediment to what they want to go with our government. Their idea of “rule of law” is judges who view the Constitution as a ball of Silly Putty, to be changed at their whim. That's why they avoid referring to the Constitution.

There is a danger that the people might read that document. find out that it was meant from the beginning to LIMIT the powers of government, and take it seriously. Now, we can't have that happen, now can we?

And that is why the liberals have to pretend that they don't know what the Tea Party people want. Under no circumstances can the other side recognize the respect for the Constitution which is a bedrock of the Party people.

John / Billybob

[Jacquerie]

The Constitution put into practice the government’s only duty as expressed in the Declaration, to secure our unalienable rights.

Try as liberals will, our Natural Law based Constitution cannot be legitimately turned into an instrument of Social Justice.

[pepsi_junkie]

I went to DU when the Supremes made the Kelo decision. They couldn’t figure out why all THEIR justices were the ones that shot down the little guy.

I was talking to a guy who is to the left of Castro and he was railing about the rotten conservative justices on the SCOTUS that ruled that way. He had no idea that it was his own guys who tossed that turd at the country, but he was willing to reconsider his hatred of the decision once I informed him of that.