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Hillary’s New Constitution Clinton explains how she’ll gut the First and Second Amendments.
Wall Street Journal ^ | Oct. 22, 2016 | WSJ editorial

Posted on 10/22/2016 9:16:04 PM PDT by Innovative

Donald Trump is no legal scholar, but at Wednesday’s presidential debate he showed a superior grasp of the U.S. Constitution than did Hillary Clinton. Amid the overwrought liberal fainting about Mr. Trump’s bluster over accepting the election result (see below), Mrs. Clinton revealed a view of the Supreme Court that is far more threatening to American liberty.

Start with her answer to moderator Chris Wallace’s question about the role of the courts. “The Supreme Court should represent all of us. That’s how I see the Court,” she said. “And the kind of people that I would be looking to nominate to the court would be in the great tradition of standing up to the powerful, standing up on our behalf of our rights as Americans.”

Where to begin with that one? The Supreme Court doesn’t—or shouldn’t—“represent” anyone. In the U.S. system that’s the job of the elected branches. The courts are appointed, not elected, so they can be nonpartisan adjudicators of competing legal claims.

Mrs. Clinton is suggesting that the Court should be a super-legislature that vindicates the will of what she calls “the American people,” which apparently excludes “the powerful.” But last we checked, the Constitution protects everyone, even the powerful. The law is supposed to protect individual rights, not an abstraction called “the people.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; clinton; constitution; elections; hillary; hillaryconstitution; liberalactivistcourt; scotus; supremecourt; trumpwasright
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To: dr_lew

If Hillary gets control of the Supreme Court, America is over.

All the people she appoints will be under her thumb .. and they will do as she wants .. regardless of what the LAW SAYS.

I sure hope people realize that. It will be very, very bad for America to have such a person as POTUS.


21 posted on 10/22/2016 10:14:54 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: Innovative

So many of the American people don’t even know what the 1st and 2nd amendments entail.


22 posted on 10/22/2016 10:18:57 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: JudgemAll

Many white Republican women in such places as the Philadelphia suburbs are also huge abortion boosters even if they have not themselves killed their unborn children.


23 posted on 10/22/2016 10:21:07 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: The Westerner

These same WSJ bastards endorsed her though, did they not? That’s like condemning drug use was simultaneously smoking crack.


24 posted on 10/22/2016 10:21:19 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery, Never Schumer, Never Pelosi)
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To: CyberAnt

Judges on the revised Supreme Court under Mrs. Bill can just vote liberal from home by email and not bother to go through the motions of hearing cases.


25 posted on 10/22/2016 10:22:06 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Pence, 2016)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Ping to 20


26 posted on 10/22/2016 10:23:24 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery, Never Schumer, Never Pelosi)
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To: Theodore R.

Are you serious ..???? I didn’t know they could do that ..??


27 posted on 10/22/2016 10:25:03 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: loveliberty2
Thank you so much for posting that.

I read it earlier on FR, but it addresses the question of a "living constitution".

One that can be ignored if a court decides to just make up crap.

Jefferson nails it down that it is NOT.

You can AMEND the Constitution, but there are no penumbras or emanations.

You cannot make up crap. Period.

He tells you to go back and understand the "original intent" if any future issues come up.

This means that the 14th amendment has NOTHING to do with gay marriage, abortion, or illegals being citizens just by being born on US soil.

It is silent on those issues, so it reverts to the States. Or "the people".

Certainly NOT judges making up things that they happen to like.

28 posted on 10/22/2016 10:37:12 PM PDT by boop (Jimi Hendrix: "Are You Deplorable?")
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To: Cobra64; All
Thank you for mentioning Cliff’s Notes on the Constitution.

I summarize the Constitution with the following excerpts from Supreme Court case opinions. These excerpts clarify, in broad terms, powers that are prohibited to the feds.


29 posted on 10/22/2016 10:38:21 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Innovative

the Supreme Court is very definitely NOT there to “represent us all!” It is not meant to be a ‘representative’ branch of government, just the opposite in fact.

Why O Why do these political hacks keep feeding us dumb Sheeple so many lies ... and Anti-American BS like this ‘nice sounding platitude?’

answer: because “we” are DUMB Sheeple and we eat it up.


30 posted on 10/22/2016 10:44:31 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: Theodore R.

True. I remember in college meeting some
of them taking classes, their argument figuring the child was better off dead than cared for by poor mothers, looking in horror as the poor had children.

However few understand that many poor
in Brazile love their children dearly and would never trade them for anything. They are only “poor” from a material standpoint.


31 posted on 10/22/2016 10:57:04 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: CyberAnt

You are exactly right.


32 posted on 10/23/2016 12:50:59 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Impy

She’d like to...


33 posted on 10/23/2016 2:05:29 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Innovative

gut Hillary , not the Constitution


34 posted on 10/23/2016 3:08:37 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It’s the duty of the Military.


35 posted on 10/23/2016 3:25:18 AM PDT by angcat (TRUMP!)
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To: wubjo
Hillary Clinton is a hard core communist. That's why she is against the 1st (Freedom) and 2nd amendment.

communism/socialism has never worked and the latest country socialism is totally destroying is the once rich Venezuela now in freefall(the msm Media hide this collapse of Venezuela to protect socialism cause they all are socialists).

Get out the vote for Trump. Trump can make America Great again.

36 posted on 10/23/2016 3:45:25 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama gave away the Internet to the UN which 57 Muslim countries control)
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To: Impy

Indeed!


37 posted on 10/23/2016 4:28:09 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Hillary's Trickle Up policy: take bribes, sell sleazy pardons, water down AIDS medicine.)
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To: Theodore R.

Mainline Philly Pro Choice females see abortion in it’s original intended role for eugenics.


38 posted on 10/23/2016 4:50:45 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: JudgemAll

My mother made it clear to me very early on that it was very wrong to assign or equate being poor with a lack of dignity. There is but one way to determine a person’s value and that is the respect they have for themselves.


39 posted on 10/23/2016 5:01:15 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Innovative

I remember her saying also that she would pick justices “Who understand how things work in the real world”. Liberals NEVER understand how things work, because they don’t live in the real world, and Supreme Court justices are supposed to rule on the legality and Constitutional basis of legislation, NOT make laws or re-engineer society.


40 posted on 10/23/2016 5:05:08 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Welcome back to Rome - 471 AD)
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