Posted on 04/27/2015 10:24:05 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Religious leaders are calling on members of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing to recuse themselves from the blockbuster gay-marriage case that the court will begin considering on Tuesday.
Standing on the steps of the Supreme Court, Scott Lively, president of Abiding Truth Ministries, told reporters he’s filing a motion with the Supreme Court calling for the recusal of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.
“Justices Ginsburg and Kagan, knowing full well that unique legal issues regarding the definition of marriage would soon come before them, deliberately officiated at so-called homosexual wedding ceremonies creating not merely the appearance of bias, but an actual and blatant conflict of interest,” he said. “In my personal view they have committed an unparalleled breach of judicial ethics by elevating the importance of their own favored political cause of gay rights above the integrity of the court and of our nation.”
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LOL.
Yeah, that’ll happen
The whole point of appointing these pigs to the Supreme Court was to support same sex marriage...Keger, Sodamachine and Buzzy are all certain votes for anything on the liberal agenda.
If Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan participate in the SCOTUS decision on homosexual “marriage,” that should be grounds for their impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate.
Yeah that'll happen.
“...that should be grounds for their impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate.”
Should. But considering 3/4 of Congress is in the closet, it won’t happen.
When a POTUS becomes lawless, all others follow. We are a lawless country at present. Anything goes.
No reason not to put the heat on them.
They have already violated the impartiality requirement. They should recuse.
Yeah, good luck with that one. These people have spent their whole life trying to get to where they could tell Americans how to live their lives based on the bias and crackpot theories of liberalism. They’re indifferent to all its failures and oblivious. It’s a pure scam now, like soviet communism in its dying days. Now, they might be willing to recuse themselves from a “gay” matter of their own volition? Sure. And maybe they’ll give their posts on the Supreme Court to a nice conservative too.
I have to disagree on this one. I am proud to say there are two roman catholic Italian Americans on the bench. But their religious beliefs could cause a liberal to demand they not listen in on a zillion cases.
for better or worse, and I KNOW it’s worse, obummer picked who he picked and repubs stamped it.
we have to remember that we want the same rules when Cruz appoints justices.
but I’m not that bright. show me where I am wrong and I will listen.
Liberal justices should sit out every case.
They never put the constitution before their own preferences.
This includes Chief Traitor Roberts
If those two two roman catholic Italian Americans are out advocating for one side or another on an issue that is coming before them, then they SHOULD recuse themselves. These judges, on both sides of the political spectrum, could be the most impartial people in the world. Once they start advocating, then any sembelance of impartiallity goes out the window. Any judgement from that point forward becomes suspect. They are judges, not advocates, and should act as such.
That's not the legal standard being invoked here. The two justices in question actively participated by officiating at gay "marriage" events. That's affirmative action, and has long been a standard for recusal.
like I said, looking for those smarter to let me know.
that makes sense. so if alito went to abortion protest, he’s be out on abortion rulings? is that the gist
The SCOTUS is disproportionately gay in a society that is 3% gay.
Gay marriage is another 17th Amendment (17A)-related issue. More on this shortly.
Pro-gay, politically correct interpretations of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protections Clause aside, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay marriage. So other than pro-gay activist judges who shouldn’t be on the bench, there is nothing to stop the states from using their 10th Amendment-protected power to make laws which prohibit constitutionally unprotected gay marriage.
Regarding 17A as it relates to gay marriage, please consider the following. If 17A had never been ratified then there would probably all different faces on the Supreme Court at this time, probably state sovereignty-respecting justices with family values.
And not only would I expect God-fearing justices to say the same thing about gay marriage mentioned above, but patriots wouldn’t be concerned that activist justices would try to legalize gay marriage from the bench because their wouldn’t be any activist justices on the bench.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
That would only leave two, maybe three judges. I do not count John Roberts as a conservative. Roberts is already compromised in some unknown manner. The adoption status of his two foreign born children may have something to do with it. I still do not think he will serve any more than 15 more years. Everytime I see Judge Roberts, he looks completely miserable. Everytime. Of course that may just be his ‘Game Face’ of inscrutability.
The homosexual justices on the Supreme Court should definitely recuse themselves, but I won’t hold my breath.
That's my take on the recusal question.
Ginsburg and Kagan officiated at gay weddings in Washington, D.C., where same-sex marriage was adopted by a vote of the elected City Council. That is --legally, anyway-- very different from officiating at a gay marriage in a state where same-sex marriage was imposed by the courts against the will of the voters. The latter would be pre-judging the issue before the Court; the former is not.
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