Posted on 06/23/2016 9:08:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Obama’s immigration executive actions, in a tie decision that delivers a win to states challenging his plan to give a deportation reprieve to millions of illegal immigrants.
The justices' one-sentence opinion on Thursday marks a major setback for the administration, effectively killing the plan for the duration of Obama's presidency.
The judgment could have significant political and legal consequences in a presidential election year highlighted by competing rhetoric over immigration. As the ruling was announced from the bench, pro-immigration activists filled the sidewalk in front of the court, some crying as the ruling became public. Critics of the policy touted the ruling as a strong statement against "executive abuses."
"The Constitution is clear: The president is not permitted to write laws—only Congress is. This is another major victory in our fight to restore the separation of powers," House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a statement, adding that the ruling rendered Obama's actions "null and void."
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It matters not.
Obama, unvetted Moslem from Indonesia and Harvard Law,
will do whatever he wants, protected by Ryan and McConnell.
He’ll ignore it just like every other court ruling.
The left wants perpetual power to do whatever they feel like.
Maybe he is going to bring thugs in to stage a sit in.
“The Chief Justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”
Just sayin’
Scary thing is four voted the other way.
Now try putting the toothpaste back in the tube. What difference does it make?
Scary thing is four voted the other way.
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The Left never compromises.
Yet, the remarks we just heard represent yet another well-modulated, but petulant and illogical, performance revealed a shocking weakness, lack of intellectual depth and historical understanding of why the Founders did not allow for one man's judgment to prevail over "the People's" Constitutional limits on his power.
So-called "progressives" portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they appear totally bereft of any real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of Ameria's successful 200-year experiment in liberty, such as the strict limitations on the Executive power, which has been so tested by this President.
Today's liberals, especially these so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by her Founders.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.
Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a striking resemblance to the players on the stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
Yes, the pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other "progressive" theoreticians.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the Far Left which currently has control of the Executive and much of the Legislative branches of the government.
They rely on what they must believe to be the ignorance of the American people when they make their ridiculous claims. Now, they are being outwitted by an increasingly knowledgeable citizenry who are using the miracles of technology to study for themselves ancient and modern writings on the ideas of liberty versus those of tyranny. As Jefferson wisely observed:
"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."
You are getting a glimpse of what the Obama post-presidency is going to be like. He is going to hang around D.C. and blanket the media with bombastic statements anytime a judge or elected leader tries to back away from HIS agenda.
If he lives as long as Carter that’s three more decades of this sh**.
The pundits are opining that this will frighten Hispanic voters and give Hillary a boost. I never thought of that, I’ll have to admit. I thought it would focus us on the thought that even the Supreme Court wouldn’t allow an unconstitutional power grab of this magnitude.
“”The Constitution is clear: The president is not permitted to write laws—only Congress is. This is another major victory in our fight to restore the separation of powers,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a statement, “
This coming from open borders SLUT Ryan. How cute : )
One vote away from eliminating the 2nd amendment and “executive order” replacing congress.
There are a ton of legal Hispanics that want our immigration laws enforced.
No man's judgment, by itself, is wise enough, or benign enough, or is endowed with enough understanding of the difference between tyranny and liberty to be able to override and supersede the protections of a Constitution which has been the envy of the world for over 200 years.
Only arrogance could imagine such!
The SECOND illegal amnesty for illegal aliens in on hold.
His first illegal amnesty for illegal aliens continues unchallenged because we do not have an opposition party.
Scary thing is four voted the other way.
Yea, that should scare the hell out of all of us. I didn’t see who voted which way. Like I said on the other thread, I tend to be more cynical. Kubuki Theater? Siding with Obama would have driven thousands of voters into Trumps camp.
Oh, yeah. The Constitution.
The Constitution! My G-D!, they are actually following the Constitution!
I didn’t look to see who the 4 are who voted in favor of executive usurpation of the constitution but I can tell you who they are anyway: Breyer, Sotomayer, Ginsburg and Kagan.
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