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1 posted on 01/14/2013 11:19:34 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
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To: Lurking Libertarian; JDW11235; Clairity; TheOldLady; Spacetrucker; Art in Idaho; GregNH; ...

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2 posted on 01/14/2013 11:21:06 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Perhaps Justice Thomas would like to help secure a judicial review of O’s constitutional qualifications for office?


3 posted on 01/14/2013 11:24:47 AM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: BuckeyeTexan

&#@$ the libs.


5 posted on 01/14/2013 11:29:56 AM PST by skeeter
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To: BuckeyeTexan

He who knows does not speak. - Lao Tsu


14 posted on 01/14/2013 2:06:10 PM PST by TexasKamaAina
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A lawyer for the state was making the case for the inmate’s appointed counsel, saying the woman was “more than qualified” and “very impressive.”

“She was graduate of Yale Law School, wasn’t she?” said Justice Antonin Scalia in apparent support, noting another member of the legal team went to Harvard.

The next words were hard to hear in the back-and-forth between the justices. But Thomas made a joke about the competence of Yale lawyers when compared to their Harvard colleagues, according to two witnesses.


15 posted on 01/14/2013 4:59:03 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
it is absolutely impossible to fulfill such a purpose if the natural family has been destroyed

The federal government was not created to fulfill such a purpose. It was created and limited to specific delegated powers designed to basically deal with issues external to the U.S. and judicially resolve Constitutional controversies. The Tenth Amendment confirms this purpose that "any power not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Marriage and the family are simply not among the enumerated powers of Congress and, therefore, not a federal issue. It's a states' issue. Our country was created not for government to fix all our problems, but for government to protect our freedom to fix our own problems.

However, the federal government has made just about every part of your life and mine their business regardless of the Constitution. The income tax for instance has allowed government to invade our private lives that is none of their business. One of those things is if you're married (none of the government's business). Nevertheless, it is now unconstitutionally become their business. Just like all the other stuff, SCOTUS can now rule on a matter that is none of their constitutional business becasue SCOTUS will not declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. (The ability to tax income was from the 16th Amendment not an act of Congress. But implementation has been very unconstitutional becasue it has allowed the federal government powers not given it by the Constitution.)

22 posted on 01/15/2013 6:41:30 PM PST by PapaNew
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OK. Somebody who speaks Twitter tell us what Justice Thomas said. All I saw on the site was gibberish.


43 posted on 01/22/2013 9:30:42 PM PST by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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