Posted on 12/17/2011 3:51:50 PM PST by Steelfish
Newt Gingrich Says He'd Defy Supreme Court Rulings He Opposed
By David G. Savage December 17 Newt Gingrich says as president he would ignore Supreme Court decisions that conflicted with his powers as commander in chief, and he would press for impeaching judges or even abolishing certain courts if he disagreed with their rulings.
"I'm fed up with elitist judges" who seek to impose their "radically un-American" views, Gingrich said Saturday in a conference call with reporters.
In recent weeks, the Republican presidential contender has been telling conservative audiences he is determined to expose the myth of "judicial supremacy" and restrain judges to a more limited role in American government. "The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful," he said in Thursday's Iowa debate.
As a historian, Gingrich said he knows President Thomas Jefferson abolished some judgeships, and President Abraham Lincoln made clear he did not accept the Dred Scott decision denying that former slaves could be citizens.
Relying on those precedents, Gingrich said that if he were in the White House, he would not feel compelled to always follow the Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional questions. As an example, he cited the court's 5-4 decision in 2008 that prisoners held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had a right to challenge their detention before a judge.
"That was clearly an overreach by the court," Gingrich said Saturday. The president as commander in chief has the power to control prisoners during wartime, making the court's decision "null and void," he said.
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The whole idea is to make the federal government conform to the rule of law
The way you do that is to appoint conservatives to the court..
That's what your job would be.
Your job would not be to create a constitutional crisis.
Only Democrat presidents can win those.
Dumbkopf.
I think we’d be more effective if we returned to informing jurors of their rights.
Go tell that to the Independents? Of course we all agree with Newt’s policies but you wouldn’t have a telegenic and a disciplined Reagan say things that would drive away voters. You don’t gratuitously supply campaign fodder to your opponent.
They will use any ammunition to shoot down Newt, even if it means destroying their own principles.
I don't understand these anti-Newt idiots. When Newt is right, he's right. And he's right here.
GO NEWT!!!!
I was thinking of that as well.
Andrew Jackson did it.
I recall the Federalist Papers declaring the Judicial Branch to be weakest of the three!
gays and lesbians can marry? They can right now. I am just apposed to gay/gay and lesbian/lesbian affiliations. If homosexual persons want to jump the divide, I say more power to them....they might learn a thing!
Yeah, Newt should emulate McCain. That worked so well in 2008.
I think he’s baiting king hussein.
I’m praying that Newt PUTS A CROSS on the top of National Christmas tree in 2013.
Who spoke about “selling” out conservative principles? This a straw man’s argument. You don’t say things that will come to haunt you in the general. It’s called prudence and discipline. What next? We hang all the Islamic convicts in the public square?
One thing is certain, the courts are out of control and I think you'll really see it in these illegal immigration and Obamacare rulings (I'm afraid).
Yeah, I’ve noticed that the courts ignore the plain english of the US Constitution as well as the decisions made by the executive and legislative branches. The voters are too stupid to even care. I guess the universal suffrage thing hasn’t worked.
The idea that they should be given LIFETIME appointments was to shield the judiciary from the influences of politics.
That worked out well. /s
You really should rethink your approach here. You are sounding like a hard-core liberal.
Newt is not saying we should hang Islamic convicts in the public square. Just that SCOTUS should butt out of the domain of the Executive in cases properly designated to be military tribunals.
I think you are right. It’s about time we put a little fear in these judges and let them think they could be impeached for horrble decisions. They have become fearless because they have seen that there are no consequences for acting badly.
Look at their accomplishments. Newt allied himself with Ronald Reagan to build the Reagan Coalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority (together the Reagan Revolution) which directly led the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy.
Romney, on the other hand, vehemently denied Ronald Reagan and aligned himself with Ted Kennedy and the left. Romney accomplished installing liberal big government programs, defended and promoted Roe v Wade and legalized abortion as “settled law,” advocated and implemented RomneyCare with its liberty killing government mandates against formerly free citizens and its taxpayer funded or subsidized and mandated abortion procedures. He ran and governed to the left of Ted Kennedy on the “gay agenda” resulting in gay marriage in Massachusetts. He appointed liberal judges and liberal appointees throughout his government. Under his “leadership” conservatism and the Republican party was all but destroyed in Massachusetts.
Romney is one evil liberal progressive. No way in hell will MittBots be allowed to support this abortionist, big government, socialist scumbag on FR!
Guess my message isn’t clear enough. I have to keep repeating it and zotting would be MittBots.
79 posted on Sat Dec 03 2011 19:59:37 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Jim Robinson
I think it was Andrew Jackson that asked how much military that they controlled to enforce their rulings.
Legislative, Judicial and Executive.
Obama would like to do away with all but the Executive power. There have to be other branches to rein in the powers of the President or we end up with a Dictator.
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