[Clintonfatigued]

I can’t wait for Obama to be out of the White House, even if it means we’re stuck with Romney. I’m not certain that the country can survive a second Obama term.

[Sir Napsalot]

It stems from the wrong public notion of being ‘democratic’.

Liberals view that if you can sway public opinion to majority (> 50%), then you win your case. (Only it doesn’t apply to their progressive ends.....)

Doesn’t matter that is not how SC justices work. They are supposed to argue purely from the Constitution, not the current view, not the public opinion, esp. not the foreign trend, etc.

[Lou L]

Surely by now, the decision is known to the SCOTUS. They have written a majority and minority opinion, and they're just polishing the last bit of their texts. Such comments by Obama and Leahy will not change the outcome, so I have to believe that there are only several possible outcomes:

a. The SCOTUS overturns the law. OBama and Leahy look ignorant. Obama's re-election campaign takes a major hit, as his signature achievement is found to be un-Constitutional.

b. SCOTUS upholds the law. In this case, Obama and Leahy look very strong, very persuasive in their rhetoric. Obama supporters go crazy, and independents are also swayed. SCOTUS is for all intents and purposes, rendered impotent for any future ruling concerning Constitutional matters.

c. SCOTUS overturns the law. Obama and Leahy knew in advance the decision, because it was leaked to them. Their recent attacks on SCOTUS are for political reasons--they will run on the overturned decision, and blame Republicans for "taking healthcare away from people who need it the most."

[Feckless]

"Acting out based on their personal views on this matter," said Leahy, "would be the height of conservative judicial activism" and would reflect poorly on Roberts' legacy.

Like the Liberal Cxxts on the Court would NEVER do anything like that. F you, Leaky.....

[loveliberty2]

Thank you for posting!

"We hold these truths to be self-evident...all men are...
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That to secure these rights, governments
are instituted among men."

"What are those unalienable rights with which we are endowed? They may be described in many ways, but English jurist Sir William Blackstone wrote in 1766, ".these may be reduced to three principal articles:

1. the right of personal security (life);
2. the right of personal liberty; and,
3. the right of private property...."

So-called "intellectual" "progressives," such as Obama, those who taught and influenced him, those who advise him, as well as Leahy, show no grounding in the principles of the Constitution's foundations in the wisdom of the ages, as enunciated by Blackstone and America's Founders.

That Constitution was not to be used by men to expand government. It was "the People's" "chain" (Jefferson) to bind down political (legislative and executive) will of those who would exceed its limits on their power.

The works of Sir William Blackstone, along with the 85 essays of THE FEDERALIST, according to Jefferson, were to be used for the study of law at the University of Virginia.

Does it appear that those who attempt to "change" America from its foundations in liberty are using those those works as the basis of their understanding of America's basic law?

"Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. . . . This will of his Maker is called the law of nature. . . . This law of nature, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God, Himself, is of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe to all countries, and at all times, no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this." - Sir William Blackstone, "Commentaries on the Laws of England"

"On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." - -Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823