Posted on 12/12/2015 12:34:08 PM PST by Hojczyk
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is "disgraceful" and a "disappointment" to conservatives, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Saturday, while praising Associate Justice Clarence Thomas is his favorite member of the high court.
"Justice Roberts really let us down. What he did with Obamacare was disgraceful, and I think he did that because he wanted to be popular inside the Beltway," Trump told about 4,000 supporters. The celebrity billionaire was referring to the chief justice twice voting to uphold key provisions of President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law and to the expressway around the District of Columbia, an area regarded as the center of U.S. government and politics.
Thomas, arguably one of the court's most conservative members, is "very strong and consistent," Trump said.
The GOP front-runner offered his assessment during an hourlong question-and-answer-session with Attorney General Alan Wilson. The South Carolina Republican is hosting a series of forums in this early voting state to query GOP hopefuls about their theories on constitutional law and the role of the federal government.
Prompted by Wilson, Trump also blasted government regulations. He focused his ire on water regulations that he says flood the market with bad faucets, toilets and shower heads.
"There's no water pressure," he complained. "The problem is you stand under the shower five times as long wasting more water than if you used the other one. So people are flushing seven, eight, 10 times. The end result is that it's no good and you end up wasting more water.
"I could name hundreds like that," Trump concluded about the regulations.
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To add further clarity, that was Sept 11, 2008. (9-11 seven year anniversary)
Muzzie terrorists always embrace symbolic dates.
Ted gets **** done he just does not do it by being rough on the kids and the furniture
And brother do I want to see Ted debate SCOTUS Hell Yeah!
If I got the job first thing I would do is clear out the rats nest from top to bottom. now we may begin..
Everyone gone.
My People
My town
‘Zactly.
Sounds like what Andrew Jackson did.
SCOTUS position is a lifetime appointment. While I agree with you, it ain't going to happen since there is no jurisdictional reason to get rid of him..........
Its what the rats do
Remember in November! Support Trump, or whatever conservative patriots elect, by also electing a new, state-sovereignty respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the president.
An added bonus of a state sovereignty-respecting Congress is that it could fire activist justices.
There are black rats and white rats
I am a white rat
Remember Cruz had been a Supreme Court clerk so is well known personally to all the Justices then serving, including Thomas. I wouldn’t expect any Justice to make a personal endorsement and I can’t recall any of their spouses ever endorsing before.
Other countries like China are laughing at us. Our regulators drove the last incandescent manufacturer out of business (believe it was in New Jersey). But they still make them in China, not for our market. I'll buy LED lights but not CFL lights. But neither type provides the warm glow of incandescents. The only solution is multiple lamp strips or chandeliers, populated with multiple lower wattage incandescents which are still available. I inserted multiple light fixtures in the ceiling to obtain the lighting I wanted. Plus I stockpiled incandescent bulbs, but my supply will disappear with time. These stupid regulations hamper free market practices and hurt us not only economically but get us pissed off at government.
Robert’s order was not only wrong on the law (and wrong policy of course) but it read like a children’s fairy tale ... so OBVIOUSLY twisting, turning reality upside-down to reach its (patently intended) result/conclusion
I was convinced then, and remain convinced now, that Roberts must be very SERIOUSLY ‘compromised’ — that he is either being threatened in a major way... or could the IslamoNazi-in-Chief’s backers have bought him off, or ???
ps: I doubt it’s his allegedly-illegal adoptions — that just wouldn’t seem likely of leading to very much anyway... it looks like something far more serious ... or just that good old-fashioned ton of money thing......... but my GUESS is he’s acting more out of fear than greed...
And he is a good man for it. But that is inside the Beltway kabuki. It isn't getting stuff done. It isn't managing resources to efficiently to effect a public purpose.
I’ll answer some of your questions.
Ethanol is made of field corn, bred specifically to produce ethanol. It is not eatable by humans, well, it won’t kill you, but you would never take a second bite.
The residue, called distillers grain, is very valuable as a feed stuff, and is most efficiently fed to beef animals, although hogs and poultry do well on it too. Beef just have a better digestive system for the grain.
Because it has been ‘predigested’ during the distilling process it is more easily converted to meat than regular corn.
Summary:
Governor Walker had the best ‘solution’ to the ethanol question. Not the one he was endlessly attacked for here on FR, but his real one, the one that came from his lips.
I think it was brilliant.
Essentially he called for a gradual elimination of government subsidies to grow the corn. AND, most importantly, a gradual elimination of federal fuel blending standards.
This gradual change would prevent wholesale farm bankruptcies, which would put our entire food supply at risk.
The end result would be ethanol would stand on it’s own, with the market dictating how much ethanol would be produced, and at what price. NO government money involved.
The end result would be a much smaller ethanol corn crop and a much smaller amount of ethanol produced.
No one knows for sure, but because of the high value of the distillers grain, I think we would still have a fairly large ethanol industry.
“{If he is supposedly faking it, then he fakes it better than the “real†ones.”
An astute observation.
If you have an athelete who can “fake” a javalin toss better than a real athelete, why do you need the “real” one?
Yes.
Can a President ‘fire’ a standing chief justice and replace him with another justice on the Supreme Court?
If Trump can do this, he’s my man!
The second is even worse. He ignored the clear language of the statute, even in light of statements from the main architect of the statute that the clear language is what Congress intended. I cut Roberts a little slack on the first one, but the second is unforgivable not only because it allowed Obamacare to survive, but because it sets a horrible precedent. Roberts has clearly been compromised.
Trump’s main issues are immigration, trade, national security and the border. See his book ‘The America We Deserve’ from 2000. He even called out bin laden as an underestimated threat.
Trump’s a yankee, not a canadian pretending to be one...
Just think how many souls of murdered babies are waiting to meet Ginsburg in the afterlife.
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