Breyer wonders if Constitution is relevant (SCARY)

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 7/6/03 | Worldnetdaily

[ModernDayCato]

This is truly scary. According to the article, 6 out of 8 of the justices believe the 'living constitution' bulls--t.

[Semper Paratus]

Him and others, in their decisions, have already informed me that they think about the Constitution.

[ModernDayCato]

While I couldn't agree more, this article is truly chilling.

[ModernDayCato]

Ah, @&^%!@

This is a duplicate thread. And I looked for it too. Could you kill it please, Mr./Ms. Moderator?

[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.

[foreverfree]

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[Russell Scott]

I didn't realize Breyer understood how close the global government of Christ was of being established on earth, as it is in heaven.

Hebrews 8
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

[The Westerner]

Keep this thread. This is too important to ignore. Let everyone be alerted.

[gorush]

I guess that oath they take to protect and defend the Constitution is just so many empty words that must be uttered before advancing the liberal agenda.

[risk]

This is chilling.

[af_vet_1981]

According to the article, 6 out of 8 of the justices believe the 'living constitution'

Those would be the 6 who sodomized our Republic.

The proper response is to impeach them and remove them from office.

[Mr.Atos]

...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.

Its this word, 'whether' that should scare everyone. Breyers existence and relevance to anyone or anything is entirely depended on the relevance of the founding document. If he questions the Constitution's relevance, he is thereby denouncing his own relevance to say so and therefore, in the eyes of this citizen, has forfeited his right to be a sitting justice. If Breyer had made this statement before Congress and to the American people prior to his nomination to the Supreme Court, he would likely never been confirmed. His decisions on matters of law are of extreme importance as they relate to this nation. And this nation can only exist as it has been defined. And the codicies through which it has been defined, is the US Constitution.

For questioning the relevance of this document, the justice should be impeached. He simply and clearly does not represent the nation in the task for which he has been appointed.

[L.N. Smithee]

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.

Use plastic utensils.

[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.

[DoughtyOne]

For a number of years I have been trying to tell conservatives on this and other forums that globalism would be the death knell of the US Constitution.  The thanks I've gotten for having expressed this view was to be dismissed as a chicken little, someone who knew nothing about nothing.

Today we have no less than a United States Supreme Court Justice himself described as, and stating the following:

Breyer had held that a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that homosexuals had a fundamental right to privacy in their sexual behavior showed that the Supreme Court's earlier decision to the contrary was unfounded in the Western tradition.

"We see all the time, Justice O'Connor and I, and the others, how the world really – it's trite but it's true – is growing together," Breyer said. "Through commerce, through globalization, through the spread of democratic institutions, through immigration to America, it's becoming more and more one world of many different kinds of people. 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." [BARF]

In the Lawrence v Texas case decided June 26, Justice Anthony Kennedy gave as a reason for overturning a Supreme Court ruling of 17 years earlier
upholding sodomy laws that it was devoid of any reliance on the views of a "wider civilization."

When the United States Supreme Court Justices Jesters have no better foundation in our own laws, or respect for state's rights, it's obvious that our own standards are being ignored in the quest to become something else, in this case European.  This angers me.

Do these SCOTUS members have such little respect for this nation and what made it great, that they are willing to subject it's ideals to those of other nations?  Evidently so.

And so it goes in what is left of what our Forefathers gave to us.

Globalism is grand isn't it.  It must be in light of what we are willing to sacrifice to achieve it.

[ModernDayCato]

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.

Beautiful.

[DoughtyOne]

Yes of course, good comments. Does this mean that Moslem Courts must be considered as well? Well, after all we have a significant representation in our nation from the middle east now. Using the logic of these senile judges, we should definately incorporate their standards as our own.

We've certainly got some intellectually challenged asses on that court!

[ModernDayCato]

There really isn't much out there that leaves me stunned. This did.

[ModernDayCato]

Ping for your respected opinion.

[Williams]

IF Breyer really wrote that a recent EU decision proves condemning homosexuality has no roots in Western tradition, that would be a bit tunnel-visioned of him, wouldn't it? For example, the Bible, and the very laws he was overturning, come to mind.