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To: ColdOne

Since when has Holder ever been concerned with the Constitution, and isn’t up to the Supreme Court to ultimately determine if a law is Constitutional? If Holder ever start enforcing all our current laws as required under the Constitution I’ll start to pay attention to him, but that day will never happen with this racist.


14 posted on 05/02/2013 10:41:59 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1
isn’t up to the Supreme Court to ultimately determine if a law is Constitutional?

Ultimately it is up to Congress. The Supreme Court is not Supreme, just because uncaring politicians have been willing to defer to them.

139 posted on 05/03/2013 3:28:35 AM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: Mastador1
and isn’t it up to the Supreme Court to ultimately determine if a law is Constitutional?

Debatable (I'm not saying this is wrong or right, just debatable). The SC have taken the role of judicial review to themselves since Marbury versus Madison but that doesn't mean it's Constitutional.

Jefferson certainly disagreed with the SC's extension of jurisdiction in Marbury

You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.... Their power [is] the more dangerous as they are in office for life, and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves.

It is certainly tenable that the Constitution (properly read) leaves interpretation to 'the People or the States'.

149 posted on 05/03/2013 8:12:45 AM PDT by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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