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Posted on 02/04/2012 2:17:13 PM PST by antidemoncrat
US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg tells Egyptians: Don’t look to the “OLD US Constitution” for guidance in drafting a new constitution. Justice Ginsburg holds in high esteem the constitution of South Africa and Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotactionnetwork.com ...
“I will gladly pay for a one way ticket for Ginsberg to emigrate to whatever country she would like to park her sorry a$$”
I suspect she would be comfortable in Hitler’s fascist Germany. If she was around then, I’m sure she would have been at the train station with candy, luring kids to the ovens.
For all these years, this silly beeeotch has been getting paid to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Doesn’t her proclamation of distaste for the U.S Constitution amount to an admission that she has been motivated to undermine the Constitution during her years of work as a Supreme Court Justice? Up to this point, “loose constructionists” have at least claimed to be committed to work within Constitutional limits.
This is sickening. She should be impeached.
Astounding...
No, all the lib justices think international law is the way we need to go.
Ginsberg was confirmed for her Supreme Court appointment by a Senate vote of 96 to 3. Only Jessie Helms, Don Nicles, and Robert Smith voted no. The rest of the Republican Senators! Including current minority leader Mitch McConnell voted for confirmation.
Presumably, she was asked about the Constitution. Wasn't she...???
I’d rather attend her funeral service, ASAP, and then do a Marine Taliban Pee Dance on her grave.
She is PsychoLeft, not just ACLU Left.
The Constitution requires every officer of government in this country, at every level, in every branch, to swear to support the Constitution.
The often-overlooked Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment disqualifies those from holding office who have been found to be in rebellion against that Constitution.
She clearly qualifies.
Sadly, so does does almost everyone else now holding public office.
The South African constitution, promulgated by Nelson Mandela, came into effect on February 4, 1997. Unlike our outdated old relic, it is one of the most progressive constitutions in the world and basically enshrines some of the libs’ loftiest dream goals for America. I’m sure some of Ginsberg’s favorite parts include these:
* A “Commission for Gender Equality” is explicitly established in the constitution.
* A “Broadcasting Authority” is established to regulate broadcasting and to ensure “fairness” and a “diversity of views”.
* The Bill Of Rights includes the right to equality, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of many things including sexual orientation, marital status, disability, language, age, etc.
* It also includes the right to life, which has been held to prohibit capital punishment, but not prohibit abortion.
* It explicitly includes reproductive rights. “Everyone has the right to bodily and psychological integrity, which includes the right to make decisions concerning reproduction.”
* It permits freedom of speech and expression, but “hate” speech and war propaganda are explicitly excluded.
* Everyone has the right to assemble, peacefully and “unarmed”.
* Includes womens’ suffrage.
* Prohibits depriving anyone of citizenship.
* Includes the right to choose a trade, occupation or profession, though these may be regulated by law.
* Includes the right to unionize and the right to strike. Every trade union has the explicit right to engage in collective bargaining.
* Includes the right to a healthy environment and the right to have the environment protected.
* Includes the rights to food, water, health care (including “reproductive health care”) and social assistance, which the state must progressively realize within the limits of its resources: “The state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of each of these rights.”
* Childrens’ rights include the right to a name and nationality from birth, the right to family or parental care, the right to a basic standard of living, the right to be protected from maltreatment and abuse, the protection from child labor, the right not to be detained except as a last resort, the paramountcy of the best interests of the child and the right to an independent lawyer in court cases involving the child, and the prohibition of the military use of children.
* Includes a universal right to education, which the state must make progressively available and accessible.
* Includes the right to use the language of one’s choice and to participate in the cultural life of one’s choice.
* When interpreting the Bill of Rights, a court, tribunal or forum ”must consider international law; and may consider foreign law.”
Links:
http://www.info.gov.za/documents/constitution/1996/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_South_Africa
Democrats have cited a portion of Sen. Orrin Hatch's autobiography, Square Peg: Confessions of a Citizen Senator, as evidence that Clinton worked extensively with Republican senators. In the following passage, Hatch discusses telling Clinton that his top choice, Interior secretary and former Arizona governor Bruce Babbitt, would have a hard time in the Senate:
I told him [Clinton] that confirmation would not be easy. At least one Democrat would probably vote against Bruce, and there would be a great deal of resistance from the Republican side. I explained to the President that although he might prevail in the end, he should consider whether he wanted a tough, political battle over his first appointment to the Court.Our conversation moved to other potential candidates. I asked whether he had considered Judge Stephen Breyer of the First Circuit Court of Appeals or Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. President Clinton indicated he had heard Breyer's name but had not thought about Judge Ginsberg.
I indicated I thought they would be confirmed easily. I knew them both and believed that, while liberal, they were highly honest and capable jurists and their confirmation would not embarrass the President. From my perspective, they were far better than the other likely candidates from a liberal Democrat administration.
The Republican Party and its Senate leadership will not fight the appointment of extreme leftists to the Court. In contrast, the Democrats will fight to the death to keep any jurist believing in “original intent” off the court.
I agree with the sentiment, but not with the absolute terms. The GOP puts up fights, and wins a significant number of them.
What concerns me is that the GOP players are squishy on constitutional principles that limit federal power. I am not comfortable with "we have the power, but will use it judiciously." I prefer, "we don't have that power."
Sickening.
I don’t know anything about their constitution but it hasn’t done anything to stop the country from being a disaster.
Ours when correctly interpreted has helped us avoid certain problems.
I’m betting South Africa’s has a lot of “positive rights” that Ginsberg likes.
Anybody who thinks this is going to be stopped via the electoral process is insane.
The US Federal Government post Civil War has turned into a criminal enterprise run by lawyers and bureaucrats for their own perpetual enrichment at the expense of the productive class.
It has also ceased to be a representative Republic and has turned into a sure to fail Democracy.
The Founders didn't put a right to vote into the Constitution for a very simple reason; they didn't want imbeciles, those under 21, and lazy parasites to be enfranchised, in fact warned against it, leaving the States to determine who could cast ballots.
Doesn't have to be blood in the streets , the military can fire every single one of these clowns and start from scratch.
Provisional military government for 6 months, then new elections for all congressional seats and the WH, incumbents need not apply, strict term limits.
Only tax paying citizens and veterans are enfranchised in the new Republic.
The Republic can be be reset with all Amendments other then the original Bill of Rights repealed.
“Dueling” legalized within Washington DC limits.
Problem solved
The franchise must be limited and determined by the states.
Incorporate term limits and rotate the Capital amongst the States.
"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death." James Madison
Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. John Adams: letter to John Taylor, April 15, 1814
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.:Thomas Jefferson
no, they don't... but it's prolly a safe to say bet they have smarter judges than that old cow
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