[mrobison]

Retire already!

[truthkeeper]

This is truly frightening.

[dfwgator]

If we ever have another Civil War, it will be over this issue.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The New World Order just got another advertising pitch.

[Alberta's Child]

Perhaps Mr. Breyer ought to me more concerned about how relevant the U.S. Supreme Court has become in the minds of an increasing number of Americans. The very nature of their idiotic, baseless decisions has relegated the entire institution to the toilet.

I'd have O.J. Simpson over at my house for a weekend before I gave an ounce of respect to most of those @ssholes who pass for "supreme arbiters of the land" these days.

[You Dirty Rats]

Justice Breyer is equating a 1981 ruling by a European Commission with the "Western Tradition".

It's not unusual for SCOTUS to cite legal precedents stretching back hundreds of years, but those precedents were part of OUR tradition ... even if some of the rulings cited might date back to Olde England, or earlier.

Does "Globalization" mean that we will have to incorporate Sharia Law into our law? Scottish Law? EU Law? The Laws of Red China, or Zimbabwe, or Brazil?

This is worse than the EU, in fact. Although the direct wishes of many of the citizens of the EU are being ignored, at least the EU was developed by duly elected representatives of the people in each member country. In the USA, though, we have dispensed with such concerns; we'll just have SCOTUS decide what FOREIGN laws we will adopt.

The scary part isn't what they said, but that they clearly believe what they said is mainstream and inevitable. We've somehow lost a battle that was never advertised.

We are now officially a Banana Republic. Leadership changes via a Coup D'Etat by SCOTUS. Marvelous.

[ffusco]

Hang the bastard. And leave his corpse on a post on Pennslyvania Avenue for all to throw rocks at.

[Bernard Marx]

This is amazing and disgusting. According to Title 28, Chapter I, Part 453 of the United States Code, each Supreme Court Justice takes the following oath:

"I, [NAME], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as [TITLE] under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.''

If there's a shred of respect left for the Constitution and laws of the U.S., Breyer should be impeached.

[L.N. Smithee]

But when you look like a word – look at a word like 'interstate commerce,' which they didn't have automobiles in mind, or they didn't have airplanes in mind, or telephones, or the Internet, or you look at a word like 'liberty,' and they didn't have in mind at that time the problems of privacy brought about, for example, by the Internet and computers. You realize that the framers intended those words to maintain constant values, but values that would change in their application as society changed."

THIS GUY'S INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO BE ON THE SUPREME COURT???

[witnesstothefall]

All of Europe was Nazi for a long season. Beware foreign fashions and fashionable foreigners.

The intellectual passivity of a Breyer or an O'Connor is a telling sign of the times.

When did America start to fear leadership, and uniqueness, in the world of constitutional principles?

[FBFranco]

...it (OUR CONSTITUTION!) was devoid of any reliance on the views of a "wider civilization."

We've had, and have many anti-American justices on the Soopreme Kourt, but this numbskull globalist is the worst.

Most of the lefties who have worked quietly to destroy this nation while sitting on this court have kept their crummy mouths shut. Perhaps we owe this one a "thank you" for alerting Americans as to the extent that Anti-American and anti- Constitution sentiment thrives on this despicable body!

If this court doesn't do a 180 degree turn, we're sunk as a nation! Hopefully President Bush will take notice before a true militia is formed!

Having just celebrated Independence Day it would be good to reflect on why this Constitution must be returned to resemble the original idea.

Our spineless, gutless fat-cat cowardly congress will continue to do nothing except spend us into oblivion and sell our nation to the globalist god!

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Impeachment strikes me as an appropriate form of retirement.

[furnitureman]

a package of 34 treaties, all of which were ratified by a show of hands -- no recorded vote http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a325b3f5d31.htm



Annan in historic meeting with Supreme Court &Congress/is believed to be unprecedented. http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b0c30a81760.htm

[Eaker]

Did ya'll see this???

Unbelievable!!!!

Eaker

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

PROTECT,DEFEND AND"UPHOLD"THE CONSTITUTION.LIL'JUDGIE JUST VIOLATED HIS OATH AND SHOULD THEREFORE BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE.

[Becki]

And how they're going to live together across the world will be the challenge, and whether our Constitution and how it fits into the governing documents of other nations, I think will be a challenge for the next generations."

Just damn.

Becki

[Action-America]

Although I don't disagree with the Court's decision in the Texas case, it should be obvious that Breyer's reason for his decision is flawed.

The 4th Amendment protects a person in the privacy of his own home, even if that person is a queer.  That's all that needs to be said - nothing about the opinions of foreign jurists, globalism or a "living Constitution".  It's simple.  If you allow government officers to enter a private residence to look for sodomy, then you open the door for allowing them to enter your residence to look for guns or banned literature.  As long as what the individual is doing in his home does not present a clear and present danger to children or non-consenting adults in that home or to those beyond the walls of that home or to society in general, then that activity, however perverse, must be protected under the 4th Amendment.  Otherwise, the powers that be, may some day consider the possible possession of a gun or "Atlas Shrugged", to be perverse enough to justify entry into your home.

Having said that, Breyer's suggestion that the U. S. Constitution should be subordinated to anything, especially international will, is on it's own merit, more than justification to begin impeachment proceedings.  In fact, O'Connor's suggestion that the Constitution may not be the last word on US law, borders on justification for similar action on her part.

In his dissent on the Lawrence v Texas ruling, Justice Scalia made a most insightful observation on the state of the Court today:

"Today's opinion is the product of a court, which is the product of a law-profession culture,..."

The Constitution is indeed, a living document, but not in the way that certain members of the Court would have us believe.  The reason that the Constitution is a living document, is because Article V of the Constitution, grants the people the right to amend the Constitution.  It is the people, who make the Constitution a living document.  In fact, the people have grown the Constitution 27 times since it was originally signed.

It is not up to the Court to change the Constitution - only to rule on cases, based upon the original intent of those who wrote the Constitution and its subsequent amendments.  Only the people have the right to make the Constitution subservient to international opinion, and then, only via the amendment process - a process, it should be noted, that the people have not chosen to undertake.  For a Supreme Court Justice to even suggest that anything should supersede the Constitution, as amended, is nothing short of absolute justification for impeachment.

I, for one, would welcome the beginning of impeachment proceedings against both Breyer and O'Connor, were it not for one fact.  Based upon Dubya's track record (ex: the Patriot Act, the HSA, the Jose Padillia case, etc.), he would probably replace them with jurists who have even less respect for the Constitution than Breyer or O'Connor.  More important than impeachment, is replacing the globalist justices with true Constitutionalists and that's something that Dubya is just not inclined to do.  Under the current administration, it's a lose-lose situation.

 

[sargon]

Breyer is a Traitor to the Constitution, obviously.

He should be impeached, to say the least..

[lugsoul]

I've read this a couple of times now, and I've yet to find the part where he says the USC should be subservient to international agreements. Where is that again?

[arasina]

"...and whether our Constitution and how it fits into the governing documents of other nations..."

Perhaps we should let the governing document of a Communist nation decide what to do with you, "Justice" Breyer. Or how about making the impeachment rules just a little more flexible?

P.S. If Breyer had put that spoken sentence in writing, my English grammar teacher of bygone days would've written awkward in the margin. :-)

[Republican Wildcat]

What is the wording of the oath a Justice takes?