Fiorina Did Refer to SCOTUS Decision As “Law of the Land”

Caffeinated Thoughts ^ | September 30, 2015 | Shane Vander Hart

[EternalVigilance]

Very Romneyesque.

[EternalVigilance]

FYI...

[DuncanWaring]

The “Law of the Land” once also held that one man could own another as property.

[CivilWarBrewing]

So did Trump and others. Shows lack of understanding of SCOTUS’ limitations of their authority.

[GraceG]

So I guess Dredd Scott and Kuramatsu still is the law of the land too!

[EternalVigilance]

Absolutely.

[Vigilanteman]

You owe an apology to Romney for the comparison. Even he wasn’t that dense. If Fiorina thinks we live in a dictatorship run by a committee of five judges, then there is no reason for a congress or a president.

[EternalVigilance]

I hope you’re not holding your breath for any apologies to Romney.

I’d hate to see you die.

:-)

[DiogenesLamp]

“I think the Supreme Court ruling will become the law of the land, and however much I may agree or disagree with it, I wouldn’t support an amendment to reserve it.

Good bye! No further consideration of you is warranted.

[Jim W N]

I don’t really care what Fiorina said. She’s not a trustworthy or worthwhile candidate for President. We need someone MUCH better than that.

Regarding the law of the land, a SCOTUS decision based on a good-faith effort to apply the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended, is certainly a valid interpretation of a federal law and thus certainly is part of the law of the land.

A SCOTUS decision, congressional legislation, or a Presidential act that is not authorized by the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended, is NOT the law of the land (ART VI, CL 2, U.S. Constitution).

[EternalVigilance]

Romney was that dense, by the way. When the supreme judicial court in Massachusetts offered a completely non-binding opinion that fake sodomite “marriage” should be the law in their state, and suggested that the legislative branch should make it so, Governor Romney, without any legitimate authority whatsoever to do so, enforced their silly opinion on the whole state.

[South40]

Fiorina Did Refer to SCOTUS Decision As “Law of the Land”

So did Trump. (tagline)

[EternalVigilance]

"I do not forget the position assumed by some that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case upon the parties to a suit as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government. And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."

-- President Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address

[Vigilanteman]

Strictly rhetorical. Romney said stupid things because he so badly wanted to be liked by the ultraleft cesspool of politicians and voters in Massachusetts. Fiorina says them as if she actually believes them. Huge difference.

[EternalVigilance]

"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."

-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Charles Jarvis, (28 September 1820).

[EternalVigilance]

Let’s face it, Romney doesn’t really believe in much of anything.

[EternalVigilance]

Yup.

[Vigilanteman]

FWIW, I think Donald Trump is basically Mitt Romney with more backbone. If you break it down by issues, there is little difference.

That's not a popular thing to say around here, but that's the fact, Jack!

[EternalVigilance]

I agree.

[txrefugee]

Fiorina said that Kim Davis was an elected official. and it was “her duty to obey the law of the land.” I’m sure this is on video because it was on Fox News when Davis was sent to jail for not issuing marriage licenses. Obviously, Fiorina isn’t ready for prime time and has opposing viewpoints on every issue.