Posted on 07/12/2012 5:26:36 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
I think the SC needs a mandated one-week sabattical where they do nothing but read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the contemporary writings of the Framers. They were quite clear on their reasoning, intentions, and choices.
IMHO, the SC get caught up in 200+ years of legal poppycock and have forgotten the whole point of this experiment.
Thanks for the heads up on that. I read the King James version, would you suggest any other version?
Walter Williams has said that, when considering a candidate for the Supremes, he/she should be given a reading comprehension test.
The specific materials comprising this test would be the Constitution.
Areed.
With all the intellectual curiosity and integrity Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Gingsburg, and Breyer combined, they have shown themselves no better than the potted plant in the background.
>>> A Harvard law student, Joel Alicea, in a smart post on the conservative Web site The Public Discourse, wrote that the health care decision revealed “a clash between two visions of judicial restraint and two eras of the conservative legal movement.” If Chief Justice Roberts, nearly a generation younger than Justices Scalia and Kennedy, in fact represents the old form of legal conservatism, in which the judicial role is to salvage statutes if possible rather than eviscerate them in the service of a bigger agenda, that’s a fascinating and highly consequential development. <<<
>>> So the real question is what the word “conservative” means in 2012 and the decades ahead. <<<
IOW, CJ Roberts represents today's conservative justices. Kennedy, Scalia, et al. belong to the quaint ‘Older Generation’. Justice Alito aside, if this is the trend, we may soon lose the true Republic's form.
“The Mystery of John Roberts”
I don’t believe there was much “mystery” behind what happened.
Roberts originally sided with the conservatives. He may even have written a good portion of [what later became] the minority opinion - and this is why the minority opinion was left “unsigned”.
Then the attacks from the administration and the left began — attacks on the Court in general (this was obvious), and perhaps on Roberts personally (this would have happened covertly).
Roberts didn’t have the backbone to withstand them. Ostensibly, he was reported to be concerned “about the Court’s reputation” (if he voted to toss out ObamaCare), but I sense he was far more concerned, and intimidated, by something in his personal life that he believed would be best kept under wraps.
And so, he reversed himself, offering as the reason legalese in an effort to justify personal actions.
But by doing so, he has demonstrated to the left (and the Chicago-style mob) that he can be “rolled”. If he changed his vote to cover up something this time, he leaves himself ripe for intimidation in future decisions.
My opinion only. I’m probably completely wrong about this.
But that’s how I see it....
Oh I think there is a Big Mystery.
Speculation is that John Roberts is full blown homosexual with a beard wife and was threatened with an outting if he didn`t join the progressive dark side.
Why else work for free for gay “rights” !? :
Judge John G. Roberts Jr., the Supreme Court nominee, gave advice to advocates for gay rights a decade ago, helping them win a landmark 1996 ruling protecting gay men and lesbians...But they said he did provide invaluable strategic guidance working pro bono to formulate legal theories and coach them in moot court sessions. ... The 1996 case, Romer v. Evans, is considered a touchstone in the culture wars
NYTimes
Ditto!
King James is the version I read. The other versions say close to the same thing on this verse.
Posting the King James version.
James 1:8 A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.
And just exactly how do you know it wasn’t Bush who did the wool pulling? Leftward Ho seems to be our creed.
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