Billbears;I have been noting your posts for some time now and they are very consistent. Sounds like you have an agenda or are just having a bad day.
Surely, you do not think the separation of powers means the Judiciary trumps all, do you? Each time you come down on the side of the Judiciary as if you approve they are our ultimate rulers.
As you sneer at us who were on the scene, your motives are transparent as a windexed window.
Do you:
1. Just have a bad day?
2. Have an agenda?
3. Just want the topic of State sponsored murder to go away?
4. Other?
You misunderstand the one major intent of the separation of powers. At the time it also meant the separation of powers between the states and the national government. They were equals. The only time I speak about the Judicial branch, the federal judicial branch, is when they have either created power for the federal government, such as the incorporation of the Bill of Rights, or when they recognize this incorporation was never intended, such as in the case of Janice Rogers Brown.
I do have an agenda. As a conservative that is still wanting limited government, I will speak against those that are willing to engage the national government in what was clearly a state issue. I will speak against those that would use the national government to forward their agenda at all costs, even up to destroying any possibility of returning to the federalist intent for what they deem to be a just cause. It's sad the woman died. But I am tired most of all from those that would use the Constitution as it was not intended. The Constitution was not intended to be a list of rights for the citizens of the respective states. It was intended only as a list of limitations upon the federal government and nothing else. Framer after Framer after Framer stated this and was concerned about this one issue (well except for the monarchist Hamilton), the possibility that the national government would eventually swallow any power the states held. It is pitiful to see 'conservatives' not only not having a problem with it, but advocating it to forward their agenda