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To: Non-Sequitur
Your opinion has no legal standing at all. The only opinions that matter were those of the Chief Justice and the four associate justices who agreed with him that the actions of the Texas legislature were without standing in the law. They were null, they violated the Constitution, they were illegal, however you want to put it. That fact will not change regardless of how loudly you state their decision to be, in effect, making legislation or how often you proclaim that the Constituion doesn't say what the court said it did.

That is a really scary statement if you think about it. What you're saying is you don't care what the Constitution or Federal law say, you'll just follow any SCOTUS ruling as long as YOU think its correct. No thought to what the law is, or what our founding principles are.

856 posted on 05/05/2003 5:53:27 AM PDT by HenryLeeII
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To: HenryLeeII
That is a really scary statement if you think about it. What you're saying is you don't care what the Constitution or Federal law say, you'll just follow any SCOTUS ruling as long as YOU think its correct. No thought to what the law is, or what our founding principles are.

And you will dismiss any Supreme Court decision that you disagree with. Which is scarier? It really doesn't work that way, nor should it. The Constitution gives the Supreme Court the responsibility for interpreting the Constitution, not you or me or the individual states. We don't have to agree with their decisions but we do have to accept them as valid and binding. Otherwise you have nullification and 50 different sets of law for 50 different states.

859 posted on 05/05/2003 6:11:25 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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