Posted on 02/09/2017 6:39:29 PM PST by Mariner
“Disheartening and demoralizing,” wailed Judge Neil Gorsuch of President Trump’s comments about the judges seeking to overturn his 90-day ban on travel to the U.S. from the Greater Middle East war zones.
What a wimp. Did our future justice break down crying like Sen. Chuck Schumer? Sorry, this is not Antonin Scalia. And just what horrible thing had our president said?
A “so-called judge” blocked the travel ban, said Trump. And the arguments in court, where 9th Circuit appellate judges were hearing the government’s appeal, were “disgraceful.” “A bad student in high school would have understood the arguments better.”
Did the president disparage a couple of judges? Yep.
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There’s a reason WHY congress is at Article One and the courts are Article THREE!!!
I believe it was Andy Jackson that once said about a court ruling against him..”They ruled on it, now let them enforce it!”
Continue with the travel ban.
Trump has to single handedly put the country back together. I don’t know if he can do it but he is probably the person to do it at this time if it can be done. He has taken on both political parties, the media and now he’s going after the judicial system. Can he do it? Maybe, if his supporters stay strong behind him but it’s no guarantee
I don’t agree at all.
Now is the time for an island hoping strategy.
He can come back to this when Judge Gorsuch is on the bench.
This IS THE ABSOLUTE BEST resolution I have heard from ANYWHERE!!! BRAVO I hope and pray this is EXACTLY what Trump does NO VISAS PERIOD!!!!
FALSE! There is a Wash Times report tonight that the traitors at DoS are massively increasing refugee admittances from Syria and Iraq -- are above levels when Obama was president.
Why does he have to listen to them on this when it’s an activist court? Why isn’t congress speaking out?
And Rush is ALWAYS a day ( usually more ) and a dollar late ( usually much more than that !) on what he says. And before you jump down my throat....I started listening to him in '/89, when did YOU?
Thomas Jefferson:
“Nothing in the Constitution has given them [the federal judges] a right to decide for the Executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them. . . . The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” (Letter to Abigail Adams, September 11, 1804)
“The original error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they were meant to defend, and control and fashion their proceedings to its own will.” (Letter to John Wayles Eppes, 1807)
“Our Constitution . . . intending to establish three departments, co-ordinate and independent that they might check and balance one another, it has given—according to this opinion to one of them alone the right to prescribe rules for the government of others; and to that one, too, which is unelected by and independent of the nation. . . . The Constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” (Letter to Judge Spencer Roane, Sept. 6, 1819)
“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. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so . . . and their power [is] the more dangerous, as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots.” (Letter to William Jarvis, Sept. 28, 1820)
“The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet, and they are too well versed in English law to forget the maxim, ‘boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem’ [good judges have ample jurisdiction]. . . . A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.” (Letter to Thomas Ritchie, Dec. 25, 1820)
“The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal Judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow) working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped.” (Letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821)
“The great object of my fear is the Federal Judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting with noiseless foot and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.” (Letter to Judge Spencer Roane, 1821)
“At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life if secured against all liability to account.” (Letter to A. Coray, October 31, 1823)
“One single object… [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” (Letter to Edward Livingston, March 25, 1825)
Abraham Lincoln, first inaugural address:
“…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.”
And not only do I knows far more about Blumental than Rush and YOU do,n00b, I’ve been HERE since ‘98!
A judge who does not serve the law is a so called judge
Has Gorsuch not been confirmed? If not, then it’s not going to happen.
The headline shouldn’t even use the term judicial “power”. They are clearly not vested with any power in regard to these overreaching “rulings”. The correct characterization is judicial sedition or even treason. Furthermore, the hope that democrats can “own” all further bloodshed committed by illegal aliens is no less disgraceful than these decades of Republican complicity in disastrous national decline in order to raise money and run against it. The only people owning such tragedies are the bloodshed donors. Trump understands that this has to stop NOW. It’s far too late to tactically rely on blame.
Is there any doubt now that there is a civil war going on in this country?
It IS disheartening and demoralizing when we have to question the integrity and independence of the judiciary. But... perhaps if they believed in rule of law rather than rule by left-wing feel-goodery they would not have brought this on themselves.
We are all sunk if Trump’s immigration orders are stopped. What will happen if defense of the nation rests upon decisions of the courts? We are overrun by the invaders.
The Executive Branch’s primary purpose is protection of the nation, setting a precedent that gives that up to the courts is national suicide.
According to Jay Sekulow, the Prez could throw out the order and rewrite it tonight and cite his authority AND include the specifics regarding the exclusion of green card holders and resident visas. Be back in business by in the morning!
Take each application, with all the associated paperwork, put a legal petition for and admission determination on it and file it with Judge Robarts. After the clerk of the court gets about 7,535 of these in the first two weeks, the court will get a clue.
Finally, the voice of reason.
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