Posted on 09/26/2020 11:21:24 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Rioting in New York, threats of court-packing, promises of arson at the thought of Trump replacing its demi-god with a justice who actually believes in the Constitution. The left is rabid.
Even character assassination (a la the Bret Kavanaugh inquisition) is no longer enough. When will the hostage-taking start?
The President has Article II power to nominate “judges of the Supreme Court.” Donald Trump’s power doesn’t extend to the next election, but to the next inauguration -- still four months away.
The composition of the United States Supreme Court was a major issue in the 2016 election. Voters balked at the idea of giving that supreme power to the Queen of Corruption, the Bonnie Parker of Illegal E-Mails. Trump was empowered to nominate justices for his entire term of office.
The media told us conservatives had a 5-4 majority prior to Ginsberg’s death. This was meant to soothe us into a false sense of complacency.
In reality, it’s now 4-4 at best. Chief Justice John Roberts is a turncoat who sides with the left (Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor) on the really important stuff. That’s why a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become the center of a storm that makes Hurricane Laura seem like a summer breeze.
At the time of the Kavanaugh circus, I said it was a dress rehearsal for choosing Ginsburg’s replacement. World War III just broke out.
For decades, the judiciary has been the left’s House of Lords. It can lose the presidency. It can lose Congress. But as long as it has the courts – the Supreme Court in particular – democracy is in chains.
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Because it became a political appointment.
They really should just decide whether a law is constitutional or not. If they decide not, the legislature and states can still amend the constitution. A long slow process but obviously it has been done.
But now they are another legislative political body. It is a shame but how can we change it back? When we nominate originalists we are told we are “right wing.” That really is not a “wing” position.
They stopped upholding the Constitution in the 1930s when they helped FDR kick the Constitution to the curb. Now they uphold Arbitrary government where they can make shit up as they go along.
Never should have left the gold standard.
For decades, the judiciary has been the left’s House of Lords. It can lose the presidency. It can lose Congress. But as long as it has the courts – the Supreme Court in particular – democracy is in chains.
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As Thomas Jefferson feared. It was never meant to be this way. Every pet “civil right” of the Left was never meant to be treated as an amendment to the Constitution.
What the Founders gave us is now a complete wreck.
Ironically we may be in better shape now for a gold standard than in 1973 as our money supply has not, IIRC, increased as fast as the price of gold. Assuming, of course, that there’s any gold remaining.
As for FDR, not only did he lawlessly seize the gold he immediately turned around and devalued the paper money he made people take for it ... FDR was a total scumbag.
Aside: the Constitution specifies the States cannot pay except in gold or silver coin ... we should hold them to that.
Translation: Liberal Democrat controlled judicial Oligarchy than reigns supreme over the other two branches of government.
After ACB’s appointment, it’ll be 5-4. After President Trump’s next appointment in his next term it will be 6-3. I can live with that.
At this point, the best we can hope for is to slow down the destruction of our Republic. ‘The Powers That Be’ will not be going quietly.
I think we all know that in our heart of hearts.
The Supreme Court needs to be concretely divested of power by Congress.
Very possible scenario - a hard-fought battle, apparently won by Trump, but the results aren't in yet in some battleground states. "Found" and late Mail-in ballots keep trickling in as the recounts and re-re-recounts go on and on. Sound familiar?
Yeah, and just like 2000, it goes all the way up to SCOTUS to halt the recounts and declare the winner.
Maybe Amy Barrett is the deciding vote. Think that will sit well with the Dems?
Or maybe Amy Barrett isn't seated yet and SCOTUS is deadlocked at 4-4. How would Repubs like that?
...in his seminal 1887 article, “The Study of Administration,” published in the same year that the first modern regulatory commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, was created, Wilson explained that he wanted to counter “the error of trying to do too much by vote.” Hence, he admonished that “self-government does not consist in having a hand in everything,” while pleading for “administrative elasticity and discretion” free from checks and balances. Not surprisingly, Wilson’s conception of government run by administrative “experts,” unconstrained by popular consent, runs up against the traditional understanding of the Founder’s Constitution, with its tripartite system based on a separation of powers among the legislative, executive and judicial branches.FDR greatly amplified what WW started.
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Yes, just ask the babies in their mothers’ wombs. Instead of a safe place, they are in deadly danger from a woman’s “right to choose” an abortion to kill them.
Where in the text of Article III, or anywhere else, do you find that power?
This rot goes back a long way.
Millions of aborted children since Roe v Wade are eternally aware of just how much United States Supreme Court nominations are a matter of life and death.
I thought the job of the Supreme Court was to take up cases appealed where there is a constitutional question.
If not, then I’d like to know what you believe the job is.
Anyone checked up on Stephen Breyer lately? He is 82 years old.
Buy weapons and ammo, folks. This does not stop at elections and appointments. Leftist democrats want you dead. All of them not just their paramilitary wing called antifa.
JoMa
Roberts really needs to come clean about who has him by the short hairs and why. That way he can do his job on these election matters, then resign once a winner is ultimately decided and face the music.
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